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    Whats the longest time between first and last hatches?

    Day 21 was on Friday and chick 1 hatched at 445pm. Chick 2 hatched on day 22 around 11am. Its now 5pm on day 23 and there are 4 eggs left that are warm and still wriggling. At what point do I give up on them?
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    Second Try - wish me luck! - the first chick is here!

    The first egg pipped last night at 10pm and hatched at 4.45pm today! The chick seems healthy, has had a drink and is trying to find its feet.
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    Second Try - wish me luck! - the first chick is here!

    Ok, we're now in lockdown since yesterday morning with day 21 being tomorrow evening. The temperature is 99.8-100.5F but I can't get the humidity past 68%. - Should I get a water mister/sprayer and spray some water over the eggs to soften them?
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    Second Try - wish me luck! - the first chick is here!

    Results of Candling at Day 13: Good = visible signs of growth and actuve movement of peep. 1 Developing, but smalled than the others 2 Blood Ring = thrown out 3 Good 4 Blood Ring = thrown out 5 Good 6 Some movement noticed so keeping for now 7 Good 8 Good 9 Started...
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    Second Try - wish me luck! - the first chick is here!

    Its Day 11 and I've candled the eggs again. I've tried to take a photo of the eggs that I have questions about. Its tricky to take a decent photo of them! Egg 2. This egg has a single visible dot, but this doesn't move when the egg is turned Egg 4. Not sure if this is a blood ring or...
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    Second Try - wish me luck! - the first chick is here!

    ok, I've candled on day 7 and these are the results so far: Egg: Progress: 1 Faint ring? 2 Good - I think 3 Good 4 Faint ring? 5 Good 6 Good 7 Speckled - not sure 8 Speckled - not sure 9 Speckled - not sure 10 Good 11 Infertile I think 12 Speckled - not...
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    Second Try - wish me luck! - the first chick is here!

    Ok, I've made the adjustments to my incubator and put 18 eggs in on the 1st October. Humidity is sat between 55-58%. I have three thermometers in there (one controls the bulb) and they all say slightly different temperatures so I'm taking the average. The average temperature is holding steady...
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    Home-made incubator v2.0 - advice and suggestions?

    ok. I've lined the inside of the incubator with bubble wrap to try and limit the amount of moisture the wood can absorb. I've stuck a new bulb in and once its at temperature, I'll stick some eggs in and see how this lot goes.
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    Home-made incubator v2.0 - advice and suggestions?

    Quote: The marbles are there to stop the peeps falling in and drowning in the shallow tray. The normal humidity with the light on is around 45%, but I don't seem to be able to increase this with trays of water which is why I'm tryng to add a humifier and controller.
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    Home-made incubator v2.0 - advice and suggestions?

    Quote: It's a digital controller (on top to the incubator in pic one). There's a probe in the middle of the incubator (pic 2). It's set to 37.8 with a 0.3C tolerance.
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    Home-made incubator v2.0 - advice and suggestions?

    Hi all. I've made some improvements to my home-made incubator (forced air -3rd image, backup thermometer + humdity display) - see pics and I'm looking for suggestions/improvements before I set some more eggs to hopefully hatch this time round. On my last attempt, the humidity was all wrong...
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    Not going as planned

    They're dead. I've taken a photo of one in case someone can spot something wrong with the chick that is a result of something I've done.
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    Not going as planned

    I've candled them and they haven't pipped. I'll guess I'll leave them until tomorrow (day 25). If no movement by then are they definately gone?
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    Not going as planned

    The chick with the cracked egg died at some point during the night. The other 2 eggs still haven't moved since Wednesday night and no sounds or sign of pipping yet and its Day 24.
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    Not going as planned

    I've took the cloth off as it was starting to dry out and the chick has enough problems without a dry cloth getting stuck to it. There's too much shell gone to cover up a hole with tape. It's made it this far, hopefully it can make it all the way.
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