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Slider is right, but it is my job to contradict him, anyway. I generally set everything I have that isn't cracked. Eggs that have been stored a week, or so, seem to show cracks better. It may be just hallucination, or it may be that storage causes stress, or allows bacteria to grow, and expand the shell. Always candle eggs properly, if possible, before setting. This is especially important in incubators where you have eggs stacked, or those with slow recovery time, like the Styrofoam type. Now the contradiction; If you have 120 eggs, and a 100 egg incubator, you did the right thing, but also hold any that are a good deal larger than normal, spherical, or overly elongated. Just playing the odds, I would bet on "normal" size chicks making it through the critical first few days a little better than smaller chicks. This may all be hallucination, and probably not worth fretting over.
Now the contradiction; If you have 120 eggs, and a 100 egg incubator, you did the right thing, but also hold any that are a good deal larger than normal, spherical, or overly elongated. Just playing the odds, I would bet on "normal" size chicks making it through the critical first few days a little better than smaller chicks. This may all be hallucination, and probably not worth fretting over.
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