Please healp with incubating!!!

[barnyardcare]

My husband and I have tried incubating eggs twice with no success the first time. We bought an automatic turner and put in a second batch. This time only 8 hatched but only 2 lived. I just don't know what we are doing wrong!!! I have researched and read all I could find. I thought we where doing everything right?! I am ready to give up but my husband wants to try again. Can anyone give me any advise that will help us be successful?

 

[SA Farm]

Click this link for more information. I'm still new to the whole hatching business myself. This helped me a lot and I hope it will help you

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101

 

[thepouts]

I'm subbing for when my chicks one day lay

 

[barnyardcare]

Thank you Kathryn for the post. That is where we got all our info before starting our journey. I followed everything I read and still we have had not very good luck. I just don't know what we are doing wrong. I hope it's not our eggs! Could that be the problem and if so how do we know?

 

[chicknlove]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/how-to-incubate-hatch-eggs-using-the-dry-incubation-method

This is also a very good read. Might help with identifying some hatching issues. What kind of eggs are you hatching? What kind of incubator? What were your temps and % humid? Did you check for fertility? Did you callibrate your thermometer? Do you candle your eggs, are they making it to lockdown? Just trying to help

~Keri

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/16008/how-to-tell-a-fertile-vs-infertile-egg-pictures