day 21 probably worried for no reason

[crdavis09]

So it's day 21 on chicken egg. No egg movement and no chirping no anything. I did water candle it yesterday (I know should probably not have but couldn't help myself) and the egg was moving back and forth a small bit. Air sac looked good as of day 18. Humidity around 65. temp has been 99.5 normally but on cool down 1 hr I believe a day til day 18 it cooled doen to 79 I believe. Any thoughts or advice

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Is your incubator forced or still air?
And did you calibrate your thermometer(s) before you started?

 

[crdavis09]

Forced air. They read the almost the same like .1 to .2 degrees off. Using brinsea mini advanced.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I have no idea then. Maybe the cool down feature delayed them a bit? I don't have that on my incubators. Mine get a cool down when I open them to hand turn them (if I'm not using the auto turner).
When did you start counting your days? The day they were set, or 24 hours after?

 

[crdavis09]

24 hours after I put them in. The incubator has a countdown on it and I set it to 21 days

 

[crdavis09]

Had a Crack this morning around 8:30 then when I got home around 5 it's a little bit bigger. Super Excited. Can't wait to meet my first grandchick.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Hows your crack doing now?

 

[crdavis09]

The little thing was born about 2:40 Sunday morning

 

[crdavis09]

This is him/her Monday night.