Test run...

[sevenchickens]

It's my first time hatching eggs with a brand new Genesis that I just got today

I can't wait!! I'm planning on getting some BCM eggs and a few more EE to hatch along with some of my homegrown eggs but I wanted to do the big hatch with my daughter's class. (There is only 8 kids and they are a stone throw away from my house.) I'm thinking I should do a test run first with just a few eggs, but I here there is often a low success rate, if I only set 6 is that too few? Also, the humidity wants to stay around 70% I've had it plugged in for about 3 hours do I just need to be patient? Thank you!!

 

[MuranoFarms]

How does it look now? is your humidity still in the 70's?
6 isn't too few but you might want to add some bottles filled with warm water to help stabilize the temps.

 

[sevenchickens]

Thank you for the reply!! The humidity has gone down now to the mid 60s, so I think we are getting there, I'm just impatient! The temp is right around 98.8, it's been holding steady there, I'll put a water bottle in to see what that does to the temp.