I am feeling the same as you right now. :-( I had a pip even took a video of the little peep then not more then 5 hours later it was dead in the shell. I had alot of problems with this hatch because the post office took an extra day and when the eggs arrived 4 were broken. There were lots...
SO i took the dead egg out because i didn't want the kids to see. its so sad I think he drowned maybe? Stuck to the side or deformed? These are eggs that were severely shooken up in shipping only 5 out od 24 made it to lock down...
I was camping out on the floor in the living room next to the incubator. I just woke up to check on the little pip and you could see the beak sticking out was open an still the bit of flesh that appeared to be pink moving and pulsating was still and gray. I know its "lock down" should I leave...
Hello everyone!
day 21 is tomorrow!! My incubator is a homemade Styrofoam cooler nested inside a Rubbermaid bin for extra insulation. I have a light bulb to heat it hooked up to a water heater thermostat. Adjusting the temperature is impossible without disturbing the eggs. I have had a...
So lock down was thanksgiving. The sponges i put in there dried up pretty quickly and he humidity dropped to 20% so I put in a container of water and three sponges yesterday got the humidity up to 80% its (75% today ) But the temp is sill only 97 on one thermoter and 99 on the other today So...
I guess I will post here. I mistakenly started a different thread. My Eggs are set on day 4 so due to hatch December 1. I was doing the dry incubation method but put water in yesterday because the humidity gage was reading 15%. I am very apprehensive about this hatch because they are...