What was your hatch rate on your very first try?

[topeka]

Hello Group,

I am attempting my first hatch of 10 eggs (my own mixed breed ). I don't want to get my hopes up. What was your percentage your first hatch?

 

[sonew123]

I got 36 eggs and not one hatched in fact I never even saw veins growing but held onto them-nope duds -wound up her roo wasnt doing his job the right way!!!

 

[poultryhaven]

haha 0%.
It was cause i had a messed up thermometer

But my first hatch with chickens was 1 that hatched out of 8 eggs lol wasnt too good then but i just hatched out 20 chicks out of like 30 eggs

 

[MuranoFarms]

0% I decided to make my own hatcher and moved them from the LG bator on day 18 (staggered hatch) and I had a temp spike. I cooked them.

 

[Jaguar6]

Same here 0%. Made a homemade bator that had bad temp and humidity spikes. Decided to try again with another homemade bator that hold temps and humidity a lot better and I ordered myself a hovabator for X-Mas. Good luck!

 

[sjarvis00]

I had a 98% hatch but I also had a friends eggs that I knew was fertile and lots of help from her in the process.

 

[LCwilson]

some of you may not beileve me but 100%. i couldnt beileve it. i had my grandpa to help me but it was his first time also. all eggs from the chickens here. 4 seramas, 2 mutts.

we put one chicken egg in there that i knew wasnt going to grow because of how small it was. (button quail sized egg) so if you want to get all technical it was a 83% hatch.

 

[Dar]

I had a 50% hatch rate but i used a silkie... not a bator

 

[froggie71]

Well my DS did the incubating, but Duck eggs 100% 16 of 16 of our own eggs. Guinea eggs 0, not 1 was fertile. Also our own eggs. Done in an LG still air. My DS is 12 (was 11 at the time) and did the turning twice a day, added water when necessary and watched the temp religiously. He did a great job!

 

[onthespot]

five out of six, under a silkie broody. Then i bought a Hovabator 1602n and it took me several tries and I don't know how many dozens before I got a hatch. I had never heard of a hygrometer or ideal humidity. Not until someone told me about BYC and I rand down to walmart and bought one. Then it took me a several more attempts before I found out how very closely I needed to watch it in my house, and that the last few days of incubating, there is this little temp spike from the eggs themselves developing, gotta watch for that! Then the humidity at hatch time, then NOT to help chicks out... I'd say a few hundred eggs were sacrificed in my learning of what to do, and more importantly what NOT to do. Fortunately they were mostly my own home laid eggs.