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[loversday002]

I just started yesterday with putting some of my own chicken eggs in an incubator... i have 3 leg horn, 3 bard, 3 buff, and 2 jerseys... did i start out with too many eggs?

i read all the intructions and did some reaserch but is there any really important information i need to know or something the booklet didnt tell me? how do i know that (when it comes to hatching time) that my eggs will hatch or are about to hatch?

 

[Surjeet]

I just started yesterday with putting some of my own chicken eggs in an incubator... i have 3 leg horn, 3 bard, 3 buff, and 2 jerseys... did i start out with too many eggs?

i read all the intructions and did some reaserch but is there any really important information i need to know or something the booklet didnt tell me? how do i know that (when it comes to hatching time) that my eggs will hatch or are about to hatch?

Well, I'm certainly no expert in incubating, as this is only my second try and I failed miserably at my first. But I think I'm armed a little better with knowledge this time around. Let me share what I know/have learned.

First and foremost, make sure your incubator has a stable temperature. It's hard, but it can be done.

Do NOT put to much water in your incubator. That was my mistake the first time around, and I drowned the chick. I'm actually trying the dry hatch method this time around.

Make sure you rotate your eggs 2 to 3 times a day, mark them X on one side O on the other.

You should candle them at about day 7-10 to see if your chick is forming, if yes you'll see lots of veins in the egg.

On day 18 is when you add water and then forget about the incubator until day 21. Meaning, no more rotation and no opening of the incubator. Your eggs will hatch on day 21, look but don't touch, leave the chicks in there until they are dry, which should be about a day. You can have some late hatchers, that can go up to day 23. Any eggs not hatched on day 23, will never hatch

Now, I'm by no means an expert at incubating eggs, I have yet to see a chick hatch, I'm just sharing information I found on this awesome website.

Hope this helps a bit.

 

[Surjeet]

Here I dont have much options. In Puerto Rico you dont find a lot of the breeds you have there. Here you find fighting breeds and I have no interest in them. The worst is when none hatch. Last incubation I had 52 shipped eggs and none hatched. The only that hatched were my control group. With these eggs If I get a few I'll feel luck. They a really good quality. But is kind of stressing to invest in something that is a total gamble. But if this ameraucana eggs hatch I'll be dancing a whole month. They will be in a broother almost to adulthood...LOL...well maybe not that long. But I'll be over protective.

OMG, this is got to be frustrating!!! Well I wish at least one good egg! Good luck

 

[mabhera]

OMG, this is got to be frustrating!!! Well I wish at least one good egg! Good luck

It's frustrating. I have 5 that seem to be developing ok....so Im bitting my nails in the waiting..

. The hatch day is sept 6 and that seems so far away (it's just next week). LOL

 

[wowmanacat]

We candled again tonight and there was at least three dozen that we took out that were not fertile or stopped in the first few days. I knew that this was a big possibility with the eggs that I got form the auction, for this is what happens from the auction all the time or all most all the time.

 

[loversday002]

Well, I'm certainly no expert in incubating, as this is only my second try and I failed miserably at my first. But I think I'm armed a little better with knowledge this time around. Let me share what I know/have learned.

First and foremost, make sure your incubator has a stable temperature. It's hard, but it can be done.

Do NOT put to much water in your incubator. That was my mistake the first time around, and I drowned the chick. I'm actually trying the dry hatch method this time around.

Make sure you rotate your eggs 2 to 3 times a day, mark them X on one side O on the other.

You should candle them at about day 7-10 to see if your chick is forming, if yes you'll see lots of veins in the egg.

On day 18 is when you add water and then forget about the incubator until day 21. Meaning, no more rotation and no opening of the incubator. Your eggs will hatch on day 21, look but don't touch, leave the chicks in there until they are dry, which should be about a day. You can have some late hatchers, that can go up to day 23. Any eggs not hatched on day 23, will never hatch

Now, I'm by no means an expert at incubating eggs, I have yet to see a chick hatch, I'm just sharing information I found on this awesome website.

Hope this helps a bit.

lol thank you it was really helpful but i have an incubator that rotates on its own and it rotates 6 times a day is that too much?

 

[Surjeet]

lol thank you it was really helpful   but i have an incubator that rotates on its own and it rotates 6 times a day is that too much?

No I don"t think theres such a thing as too much rotation. I wish I had purchased a rotator, but I will likely buy one by the end of the year, by having one you don't have to open up the bator 2-3 times a day to rotate them, making it so much easier to keep temperature stable.

 

[yo burrill]

Nope that is fine. Turners slowly and constantly move the eggs. Out of 19 EE eggs I have 17 that are growing for sure. One is porous so I cant really tell on that one yet and one I threw cause the bottom was cracked. Im on day 6.

 

[kelly52862]

I candled last night. Had set 76 and took out 7 that were infertile, so down to 69. It looks like 3 are suspect as quitters, but left them in for at least another week.

We are half way there!

 

[wowmanacat]

We candled again and out of 60 eggs we are down to 10. With Isaac coming our way we are getting ready if we lose the electric. I am in lucky that I have a hen that is going broody so I can pull here in to the house if needed, then give her her own eggs.