I have attached a couple of pictures of my air cell after candling today (day 17) does it look about right or is it too large? Would you recommend locking down today or waiting until tomorrow evening? (Day 18)
Thank you everybody for answering all the questions!
Ok thank you, the rubber band is a great idea. My temperature and humidity have been fluctuating a fair amount but I’ve been trying to keep temp to 37.5 and humidity between 30-50
Ok thank you, the rubber band is a great idea. My temperature and humidity have been fluctuating a fair amount but I’ve been trying to keep temp to 37.5 and humidity between 30-50
I took the turning tray out of my incubator today to start lockdown. I only have one egg that has made it this far (I only started with two fertile anyway) and now the turning tray is out the egg has literally rolled from one end of the incubator to the other by itself (because of the chick...
That is a photo from me candling on day 12
It no longer moved independently, just moved when I moved the egg. It didn’t seem alive and all the veins had disappeared
Does anybody know what might have gone wrong?
I candled on day 10 and everything looked good. Veins movement etc.
Day 11 and 12 I candled and the veins had all disappeared and there was no movement at all.
I felt certain it was dead but now I’m worried I misjudged
A Janoel12, the vent is at the top but when I poke the thermometer in it is pretty much at egg level.
The odd thing is that when I first put it in it will read at about 36.7 and then suddenly it will start to climb up to about 38.8! If not higher! I don’t know if that is just the incubator...
The built in thermometer on the incubator says 37.6 Celsius, the small room thermometer I’ve put inside the incubator says 36.2 degrees. When I put an oral thermometer in through the ventilation hole it currently says 38.9 degrees.
The oral one seems to fluctuate it’s readings anywhere from...