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    Incubator Temperature Issues!

    This is uncanny. I have the same incubator (with a red top, not yellow) and all my eggs seemed fine until hatch. At lockdown they just never internally pipped and died fully formed in the shell. I checked my thermometer and the the temp was way lower than all of the 4 other thermometers I put...
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    HelP needed calibrating hygro/thermo.

    The only medical thermometers I see are the ones in Walmart for babies where you have to push a button every time you want to take a temperature; no constant reading. Is that what you use? Should I stick the end through the vent hole of the incubator and press the button for the reading? How...
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    HelP needed calibrating hygro/thermo.

    So I lost my entire hatch during lockdown because of my digital hygrometer and thermometer unit. I have a few more eggs in an incubator now which are developing, but to avoid losing the entire hatch at lockdown again, I bought extra thermometers and hygrometers. I am attempting to calibrate 5...
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    Sad question - how to tell if eggs are alive or dead?

    Wait an extra few days then open them. It would be a shame if you threw them out and there was even a lone survivor.
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    Incubating Mandarin Duck eggs

    So cute!!!
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    I killed them all.

    I know I am going to purchase a at least three more hygrometers and thermometers so I will have a total of four at the same time. I cannot take the chance of one crapping out on me again and killing my lovely lovely angels.
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    I killed them all.

    Well these last three I have in the incubator have rolling air so, but I'm going to monitor and compare them to the charts instead of relying on specific humidity percentages. I have never monitor the air cells before so I will draw lines and post pictures later tonight and ask the advice of...
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    I killed them all and I can't stop crying.

    Hygrometer and thermometer in the Hatcher wear off by six and 7°. I just calibrated them five days ago, so it must have malfunction just before they hatch. It makes me sick.
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    I killed them all.

    What humidity would you recommend I adjust to for the rest if my other eggs incubation period? And then upon lockdown what would you say?
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    I killed them all.

    I don't believe my eyes. I LITERALLY do not believe my own eyeballs in my own head. I'm so sick, the thermometer I used in the hatcher which I just calibrated 6 days ago and matched precisely with my incubator's thermometer is now showing 6 degrees low. This is unreal. After all the blood...
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    I killed them all.

    They were shipped and had saddle air cells but really not very bad. I've hatched shipped quail, chicken, and duck before in a crappy Bator with no fan, temp and humidity fluctuations, turned by hand, and had better hatches than this. This time I was meticulous and did everything so carefully...
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    I killed them all.

    I read in the Metzer Farms website that 57% humidity during incubation was proper for ducks, and everywhere else I've read says ducks need between 55-60% humidity during incubation. You would definitely say that's wrong? Should I lower the humidity in my remaining duck eggs that are due in 2...
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    I killed them all and I can't stop crying.

    Yes they were ducks. I cooled and misted. I also calibrated thermometers and hygrometers, the incubator with the hatcher and they both have the same reading. Unless, I wonder if one stopped giving a correct reading during lockdown. I'm going to recalibrate.
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    I killed them all and I can't stop crying.

    Nobody seems to answer any of my threads. I don't know what I did or how to save the rest of the eggs that are due to hatch in 2 weeks. How do I jeep them alive instead of killing them? Can someone please read my post about it and tell me something...
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    I killed them all.

    Duck eggs, forced air with auto turner incubator, 99.5 degrees, 57% humidity, candled alive amd moving through last candle just before going on lockdown. Increased humidity to 65%. Skip to day 29 and 1 egg wiggled. Day 30 nothing. Day 31 candled with no movement so I opened the eggs. All...
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