Recent content by Tucket Chic

I am on day 22 on some eggs. I have heard that you should wait until day 25 and then do a float test. Good luck.

We are on day 22 with nothing happening. It is killing us. I'm sorry that some of yours didn't make it. Try to be greatful for the few that did.

I have 7 in lockdown. I think only 3 were viable at day 18 though. This is my first time hatching. Today is day 22 and no pips. I am trying to be patient. We had some temp spikes though which is why I think we had quitters but I will wait a few more days.

I am on day 20 with 8 eggs in my homemade incubator. My question for you is did the egg that hatched show any signs of movement before it began hatching and how long did it take? I know that others have said to wait until day 25-26 before giving up hope. Good luck and I hope your little one...

I'm new at this as well but my research says to turn them and odd number of times a day. 3 or 5 Condensation sound like the humidity might be too high for the first 18 days. Shouldn't be more than 50% and increased at the end only. I would go lower on humidity than higher for the first 18...

Quote: In the build your own incubator section. It shows how some people use egg cartons with the bottoms cut off for air circulation attached to PVC pipe to turn them. That is what I am attempting to do. I read somewhere on here that you can put them on their sides during lockdown. Some...

Quote: How do you know which thermometer is off? I know you can calibrate the humidity part but how can you be sure about the temperature? How high is too high is my real question.

I am new to this incubation thing. I am doing it with my daughter as a homeschool project. We made our incubator out of a styrofoam cooler and it just spiked to 104 hopefully for less than an hour. Do I need to start over? I just set the eggs this afternoon.