Update: Wednesday was day 20 two chicks hated pip and hatched below the line I have measured the air sack on day 18 when I messaged y'all about lock down had humidity. I left the incubator dry until the two piped at that point I got it to 50% and it went up when they hatch it's been pretty high...
TX🥰 I'm in WA now.. The green part 😊 makes sense that the humidity would go up. I have been watching somethings on dry hatching.. very interesting. Would like to try sometime.
Thank you, I will increase humidity tomorrow. The Lord knows, I will learn from this and hope to be a good steward moving forward. Yes, it's always stressful such a huge thing to have little lives in your hands. I cannot read the humidity with this incubator. It is wild because the first two...
Do you think the air sack is small based on the pictures?
Do you think I should just put a damp paper towel in there, or put the bottle back on to put water in the chamber again for the lockdown?
I do now understand how we got here.. just looking for help moving forward with this batch. Any...
This is day 18. I took them off of the rotation thingy today.
As of day 15 all of them had movement. But I noticed the air sack was quite small. I read (on BYC somewhere before becoming a member) to dump out the water and run them without the humidity until lock down. I saw movement in most but...
Not sure I'm doing this correctly.
New member.
*Started raising chickens 2020 😬
*Now have two flocks (my 12 year old wanted her own flock)
*Started with Barred Rocks and some Barred Rock mixes..
*Got a Black Copper Maran rooster.. and the rest is history ☺️ have a broody now with more eggs in...