As we all know, incubation settings for one person might not work so well for the next. Thus, the creation of this thread - a guide to help you manage your incubator settings. Perhaps some settings work better in certain climates, or for certain breeds... whatever the case, this thread is for documenting your settings, breed type, special circumstances that may have led to the hatch results you got, and other details.
Once we have enough postings, we can do a search by location if need be. If you live in Georgia and want to know what other folks use for humidity, just search for Georgia on the page. Incubating seramas? Do a quick word search and see what works best for other users.
Here are the questions to answer. If I have missed any, please let me know and I will edit this post.
Breed incubated: Gold-laced Polish
Number of eggs set: 10
Incubator used: R-Com 20 Pro
Date set: 28 August 2009 @ 1200
Date locked down: 15 Sept 2009 @ 1430
Number of eggs locked down, and reason for any eggs tossed prior to lock-down: 9 locked down, 1 tossed at day 10 due to infertility
Temperature: 99.5 for first 17 days, 99 for last two
Humidity: 45% for first 17, 67% for last two
How many turns per day: Every 55 mins
Special circumstances (power outage, temp spike/dip, etc etc): Humidity dropped to 25% for less than an hour around Day 15
Your location and climate: East of England, temperate (40% humidity)
Hatch result/rate: 9/9; 100% hatch rate
Any pertinent extra details: None
If you feel that this can help you out in the future, please request this to be stickied. I think that this should help folks out when they are getting ready to set their eggs. If possible, try to just post stats on this particular thread - if you have questions about anyone's post, you can try PMing them and then they can edit their post to provide more information.
Hope this helps!
~Cherlyn
Once we have enough postings, we can do a search by location if need be. If you live in Georgia and want to know what other folks use for humidity, just search for Georgia on the page. Incubating seramas? Do a quick word search and see what works best for other users.
Here are the questions to answer. If I have missed any, please let me know and I will edit this post.
Breed incubated: Gold-laced Polish
Number of eggs set: 10
Incubator used: R-Com 20 Pro
Date set: 28 August 2009 @ 1200
Date locked down: 15 Sept 2009 @ 1430
Number of eggs locked down, and reason for any eggs tossed prior to lock-down: 9 locked down, 1 tossed at day 10 due to infertility
Temperature: 99.5 for first 17 days, 99 for last two
Humidity: 45% for first 17, 67% for last two
How many turns per day: Every 55 mins
Special circumstances (power outage, temp spike/dip, etc etc): Humidity dropped to 25% for less than an hour around Day 15
Your location and climate: East of England, temperate (40% humidity)
Hatch result/rate: 9/9; 100% hatch rate
Any pertinent extra details: None
If you feel that this can help you out in the future, please request this to be stickied. I think that this should help folks out when they are getting ready to set their eggs. If possible, try to just post stats on this particular thread - if you have questions about anyone's post, you can try PMing them and then they can edit their post to provide more information.
Hope this helps!
~Cherlyn
