I just finished a hatch where I had 20 perfect embryos for lockdown, but 9 didn't hatch. I've been doing some research, and I opened up one egg to see what went wrong, and I'm thinking that maybe humidity was to blame. I was trying to keep it at that 40-50% the first 18 days, then 65% after that, but it looks like that was too much. It appears that all of those perfectly formed chicks that were wiggling and rocking on day 20 died when they tried to pip and drowned. .. I have been using a digital hydrometer to check the humidity.
I'm getting more eggs on Saturday.. someone give me some help here.. I don't want to have this disappointment again.
Last year I had all but 2 hatch that made it to lockdown, and I didn't have a hydrometer at all.. I just filled the wells in the bottom of the LG bator when they looked low or empty. Here I've lost so many this year when I feel like I had done more research and worked harder to get things just where they should be....
I'm also having a hard time keeping the temp at 99.5 in this stinking thing... I got the circulated air kit thinking it would help... it seems my temp was more stable without that last year...
I'm getting more eggs on Saturday.. someone give me some help here.. I don't want to have this disappointment again.
Last year I had all but 2 hatch that made it to lockdown, and I didn't have a hydrometer at all.. I just filled the wells in the bottom of the LG bator when they looked low or empty. Here I've lost so many this year when I feel like I had done more research and worked harder to get things just where they should be....
I'm also having a hard time keeping the temp at 99.5 in this stinking thing... I got the circulated air kit thinking it would help... it seems my temp was more stable without that last year...
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