Well came home to an incubator loaded with chicks. I transferred to my brooder. I had ten hatched with another three pipped.
No sooner did I transfer the fluffys when another one zipped and popped out. And now chick number 12 is zipping.
How exciting. So, assuming zippy makes it out it will be a 75% hatch rate. if the other pipped one makes it out it will be 81%
No. They were eggs offered locally on Craigslist in the Tampa Bay area as "Fertile" for consumption. The gentleman told me that when he did hatch he only got 50% hatch in a Styrofoam bator. He was mainly selling eggs for consumption and only started advertising as hatch-able with a 50% hatch rate after I bought with that purpose in mind and let him know that. I had bought one dozen and after realizing my bator would not be ready till four days hence, bought another dozen. The bator only holds 18 so I ate the jumbos and incubated the rest. As it turns out this hatch has obviously been a great success even with the older eggs held with no particular cooling, in my home with ambient temps of 76 F or so.
Ok, you all are not going to believe this, the eggs are still developing. They should have hatched wensday and i candled them tonight so i didn't throw any out that were alive and 3 are still moving. I moved them under a broodie whos eggs should hatch sunday.