Long story short, Broody hen couldn't be trusted with her 5 remaining eggs on day 18, brought those eggs in and added them to the dozen eggs on day 16 in my incubator, candled, all alive and air cells looking good...
Up this morning to turn the dozen eggs (day 17) and heard a chirp from broody eggs... just went and checked and one of the broody eggs has piped!
My test:
humidity in the room is 62% all vent plugs out and temperature stable at 101.5 I don't want to add any water to get the humidity up to high and risk the other 12 viable eggs to save these 5, rather I am going with my instincts and allowing the hatching chicks to create enough humidity for the other hatches. I believe (right or wrong) in my area I have sufficient humidity to not allow the chicks to dry out in the shell..
I should have went with my gut earlier before the pip and candled my 12 eggs and positioned them into hatch position, to late now as I don't want to lose humidity with the time it will take to candle each egg, if chick hatches this evening and no other eggs have piped I will take that opportunity to candle and position 12 eggs.
Will update as time goes on... I think its going to be a long few days
Up this morning to turn the dozen eggs (day 17) and heard a chirp from broody eggs... just went and checked and one of the broody eggs has piped!
My test:
humidity in the room is 62% all vent plugs out and temperature stable at 101.5 I don't want to add any water to get the humidity up to high and risk the other 12 viable eggs to save these 5, rather I am going with my instincts and allowing the hatching chicks to create enough humidity for the other hatches. I believe (right or wrong) in my area I have sufficient humidity to not allow the chicks to dry out in the shell..
I should have went with my gut earlier before the pip and candled my 12 eggs and positioned them into hatch position, to late now as I don't want to lose humidity with the time it will take to candle each egg, if chick hatches this evening and no other eggs have piped I will take that opportunity to candle and position 12 eggs.
Will update as time goes on... I think its going to be a long few days
