Thank you, very great advice to know. I feel much easier now. Also I never knew that about chickens and the egg liquid. My mom would clean some eggs to test if it did anything cause she said some people say you should clean the eggs others say not to
Basically I want to interfere as little as possible with my incubator. I dont wanna open the incubator unless I have to but how important is candling eggs and removing the ones that dont have anything in them? If I leave them in do they affect the other eggs in anyway?
I'm on day 22 and I thought these chicks werent gonna hatch. They're all starting to hatch but I was wondering whats the longest I should wait to call it quits? And when, if should I, jump in to give some of these chicks help if it seems they're struggling to come out?
I was told also that you...
Thank you for the reply. The top lid wasnt closed right. My mother that will sometimes open it to candle the eggs doesnt close it right. I usually check the incubator at night to find out she didnt close the top correctly letting the humidity and temps lower.
I have the settings at 54% humidity...
if the lid on the incubator isnt closed right, how long till the eggs go bad?
and how important is it for all screws to be screwed on? Will a missing screw compromise the whole incubator or anything? The incubator I bought had an insanely tight screw and I had to grind off the screw to be able...
first time using this incubator and 32 chicken eggs didnt make it. Temp was 99, humidity 45 and seemed to go up to 60 the last 3 days. Using distilled water also. Turner set to 45 minutes. Anything I can do to increase the survival rate of those eggs?