She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[CaseyV]

You can get 22 to 24 eggs in a 20 depending on the size of the eggs.
They are both good choices! The 1588 holds up to 42 with the auto turner.

I borrowed the Brinsea to try out on a small hatch, I'm definitely going to invest in one. It's easier than putting 20 or fewer eggs in my sportsman.

 

[chicapee]

I borrowed the Brinsea to try out on a small hatch, I'm definitely going to invest in one. It's easier than putting 20 or fewer eggs in my sportsman.

I want another one. Lol.

 

[RubyNala97]

In the 70s I used to just put eggs in my Styrofoam bator with the water channels filled to where they said. I just turned by hand and waited and chicks appeared. I was happy because the vast majority of them hatched. I only had one that had to be put down. I hatched quail, chickens and turkeys.

Until I found this thread I didn't know I had so much to worry about. You all are making me nervous just thinking about turning the thing on. Lol

I live in the same house with the same bator (and two more). Hope I can still do it. DD candles and floats and fiddles.

You can do it! And we'll be here to help!

Fresh (or your own) eggs are the best to use with weights, but you can kinda adjust, if you know how old the eggs are. Although they will lose a little weight in storage, its not as much as once you start incubating.
Actually, that might be a good project, to take an egg the day laid, and weigh it each day for a week or so... I'll do that with tomorrow's eggs. (ones I collected today are from today and yesterday, as I was gone for the weekend - and they will be silkie eggs!)

Also, my last hatch, the ones that hatched ranged from 12-18% weight loss, and those little Japanese lost between 17-21%!! And they hatched first!
But I did not adjust for waiting days. I know they were all less than 7 days old.

Yes, you should test it out! I was talking to Sally about it and she said it's really impossible to do with shipped eggs because there is so many variables. Like different packing materials, differed temps/climates, transportation vehicles, etc. I had never really thought about it like that till she said it.

Hey yall, sorry I was MIA for the last few days, had a busy weekend. Had to go get Nankin hens and.... MY ICELANDIC EGGS!!!! I set 29 of them!! Can't wait to candle on day 7!!

I'm so excited for this hatch!!

[COLOR=0000FF]What is the best incubator for around 20 eggs?[/COLOR]

I would say, octagon 20, for sure!!

 

[WVduckchick]

Yes, you should test it out! I was talking to Sally about it and she said it's really impossible to do with shipped eggs because there is so many variables. Like different packing materials, differed temps/climates, transportation vehicles, etc. I had never really thought about it like that till she said it.

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Well yes, I'd have to agree with that.
I weighed the one silkie egg I got today, the duck egg, and one of my comet eggs. I probably wont pick up comet eggs tomorrow, probably Wednesday, but I chose one that lays a pretty rose colored egg, and I can tell hers from the others.
We'll see how they do for a week. I could mark air cells too, just to see how much they grow.
Maybe the following week I could store them differently and try it again, see what the difference is. Give me something to do since I'm not hatching! Lol

 

[BYC910]

In the 70s I used to just put eggs in my Styrofoam bator with the water channels filled to where they said. I just turned by hand and waited and chicks appeared. I was happy because the vast majority of them hatched. I only had one that had to be put down. I hatched quail, chickens and turkeys.

Until I found this thread I didn't know I had so much to worry about. You all are making me nervous just thinking about turning the thing on. Lol

I live in the same house with the same bator (and two more). Hope I can still do it. DD candles and floats and fiddles.

should be like riding a bike .just get on and start pedaling the worst you can do is crash . this thread is like training wheels for some . more like a pot belled stove for others for others. a good place to warm up . and a beauty polar to others you know a good place to gossip. and to others its the big table at local country store where all the story tellers sit and swap tall tales. here there's them that do them that don't and them that might . the hard part is figuring out which one of them you are

a little secret. most of us don't know yet .

 

[meganhundley]

You can do it! And we'll be here to help!
Yes, you should test it out! I was talking to Sally about it and she said it's really impossible to do with shipped eggs because there is so many variables. Like different packing materials, differed temps/climates, transportation vehicles, etc. I had never really thought about it like that till she said it.
I'm so excited for this hatch!!
I would say, octagon 20, for sure!!

You and me both, bators been holding the temp and humidity solid so thats good and... NO LOOSE OR DAMAGED AIR CELLS!!!! e lol

 

[Ravynscroft]

You and me both, bators been holding the temp and humidity solid so thats good and... NO LOOSE OR DAMAGED AIR CELLS!!!! e lol

Did you get eggs from both breeders then?

 

[georgiayankee]

New hatch for a friend...both needed assisting..they were malpositioned.

 

[georgiayankee]

Here's the first one of the day..

He is smaller than the other guy...he us a lavander D'anver/lavander Cochin mix.

 

[firedragon1982]

Uh oh, I have something that smells off in the bator... I sniffed the cracked egg, and that surprisingly wasn't it! That one smelled fine! How do I identify the bad egg other than sniffing each one?? Help!

ETA: Nevermind I found it

Yes, I sniffed it, it was obvious. It was one of the Marans eggs, yet not the cracked one. I opened it up (in a ziploc baggie) and it was scrambled inside, no development whatsoever. Blech.