Anyone with experience hatching chicken eggs? We have tried 3 years now. This year is our lowest yield yet. Only 9 of 42 eggs hatched! But even our best try yielded less than 50%.
We use a little giant still air styrofoam box style with automatic egg turner. Eggs from our chickens less than a week old, kept at about 60 F until setting and turned one a day. Candled at 10 days, only 2 hadn't developed. 2 hatched on day 22, 7 more on day 23.
We are going to try another batch. This time I'm going to leave one egg out and put a thermometer/hydrometer in that spot.
I found they sell a fan, but it's $40! I'm thinking about tapping a computer fan in there, thinking more even temps might help?
Any advice?
We use a little giant still air styrofoam box style with automatic egg turner. Eggs from our chickens less than a week old, kept at about 60 F until setting and turned one a day. Candled at 10 days, only 2 hadn't developed. 2 hatched on day 22, 7 more on day 23.
We are going to try another batch. This time I'm going to leave one egg out and put a thermometer/hydrometer in that spot.
I found they sell a fan, but it's $40! I'm thinking about tapping a computer fan in there, thinking more even temps might help?
Any advice?
