first time hatching

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first time hatching
« on: May 03, 2011, 22:03 »
Hello All,

i have just begun incubating 6 chick eggs, i recieved the eggs from a friend who said they had been under a hen for a couple of days. my question is do i count my first day in the icubator as day 1 or day 3

hope u can help

thanks Kev

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PaulineM

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Re: first time hatching
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2011, 22:31 »
Hi
Were the eggs immediately transferred to the incubator without them getting cold? I would imagine you would count day 1 being the day the hen started to incubate the eggs.
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kevans

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Re: first time hatching
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2011, 22:36 »
thanks for the response, there was about 3 hours between eggs coming from hen to going into the incubator.



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