Good luck Bee!
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Good luck Bee!
Thank you!! How's your regular incubation doing?
i mark size of air cell on egg with pencil, when i candle, so i can see if air cell if growing at the approx rite rate .
when air cell dips/slopes to one side about day 18 ,i mark on largest edge & place so that is upper most when i stop turning, to ensure chic has the best /largest air space for internal pip
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Ah.... some times I can be very dense.... sorry.
deb
Thank you, Pete! I really like this method better than the whole humidity thing. Suits my style. As for weighing...unfortunately, the only thing I have here that could weigh eggs that precisely is a fish scale. When you first weigh them, is there a target range they should all weigh? And also at the end?
This all makes so much sense to me! Just how much humidity is a hen adding to the nest during incubation beyond her own body respiration and the humidity from the soils...if she is even on soil? I think I'd like to do dry all the way through and see what happens...it would take such a load off my mind and certainly simplify things a good bit...and I do love simple!
So, air cells should be one third of the egg at time of hatch? Mine were most definitely not that big and I think your assessment of it, Pete, explains why those chicks couldn't get out...they were enormous and had huge abdomens from absorbing all that yolk.
Dry, natural hatch it is!