I have been going to share this info. Thanks for the encouragement to do it now.
One hundred twenty-two healthy chicks managed to hatch from the two GQF incubators which had 288 in the 1602 and 128 eggs in the 1502. We managed to fill 5 orders totaling 68 head. Several varieties were a few short of filling an order, so we managed to keep 54 head from our 7th hatch.
There were 200 eggs that did not hatch in the 1602. Ninety two were fertile, the rest still had fertility issues. There were 91 eggs that did not hatch in the 1502. Thirteen were fertile, the rest still had fertility issues. The majority of the 105 eggs that had dead chicks, showed about one week of development which would be the time frame that we lost power. I do know that if we had not run a generator, we would have lost everything, including the chicks from the previous hatch, # 6. A few of the chick drown inside the eggs. We now have the humidity issue solved.
We just completed our 9th hatch with 249 chicks from the two GQF incubators which each had 288 eggs for a total of 576. We sent out 201 head to fill 11 more orders. We are totally caught up on some varieties and are fully booked on others. I have not checked the remaining eggs for development at this time, but will before we set hatch # 11 of send out any hatching eggs. We had 4 pens hatch 100%.
We are now at full capacity with the two GQF incubators in one hatch then one GQF and 3 Styrofoam (41 eggs each) in the next hatch. We are still accepting chick orders and now shipping hatching eggs from black, blue, splash and white from pens that had good fertility from our last hatch.
Hope everyone is having good hatches!