🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[FortCluck]

I should start chanting now, I will not hatch in September (but I will in October), I will not hatch in September, I will not hatch in September...

This says to me that we must never quit hatching

You don’t want to be a stinky bad egg, do you?

 

[FortCluck]

I will hatch in September *taps shoes 3 times*

 

[Vantic]

I will hatch in September *taps shoes 3 times*

I'm glad, I'm still waiting for the White Rocks to lay a big enough egg to hatch, hence October. Make little ghost chicks...

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

I am guessing, but could there be more porous eggs in this incubator. When they came to temp started releasing more moisture than the other incubator? Which could cause this until it stabilizes?

That’s the only thing I can really think of too, something to do with the eggs

The incubator was reading 45% before I put the eggs in then it shot up to 57%.

It’s been like that for three days with no decrease in humidity so I guess all I can do is hope it eventually does drop, or of it doesn’t, hope the chicks make it out come hatch day

 

[chickiebaby1]

That’s the only thing I can really think of too, something to do with the eggs

The incubator was reading 45% before I put the eggs in then it shot up to 57%.

It’s been like that for three days with no decrease in humidity so I guess all I can do is hope it eventually does drop, or of it doesn’t, hope the chicks make it out come hatch day

You could add a small sock or bag of rice to the incubator just until lockdown to help absorb some of the extra moisture. I ve heard other people using this method. Good luck!

 

[Trisseh]

I’ve got my homegrown duck eggs in the incubator and I started them out like I usually do duck eggs at around 50% RH. With the shipped eggs that’s sometimes even too low and I’ve had to up it. These eggs haven’t lost much moisture even after I dropped the humidity as low as I could (around 30%) and they’ve only got a week left to go. Grrr. Who would have thought I’d have more trouble with my own eggs than shipped eggs? Haha. We’ll see what they do. If they don’t hatch it’s not the end of the world. Although I’d like to see what babies from those 2 look like...

2 of the ducklings from my last hatch will be going to their new home today. One more to sell and then the other 3 will be staying! The tiny magpie (who’s a drake) and a blue female and a black female (I think haha). The runners are growing like crazy. Then there’s the tiny magpie who just tipped the scale at 100g at 11 days old. Haha. Di Di (the magpie) on the left, Patience on the right.

 

[Fur-N-Fowl]

You could add a small sock or bag of rice to the incubator just until lockdown to help absorb some of the extra moisture. I ve heard other people using this method. Good luck!

Ah Thankyou! I never thought of that, I’ve just added a bag of rice to see if it helps at all

 

[Lunah452]

I need some advice from experienced hatchers. I'm hatching maran eggs, they were shipped. I'm weighing them to judge humidity because they're difficult to see anything. The breeder I bought from recommended 30-35% humidity. I calibrated my hygrometer by doing the salt test and after 24 hours it read 73, so I've been trying to keep my humidity between 27-32.

Well I weighed today (day 6) and holy cow I think I have a problem. If I'm understanding the weight that should be lost as 12%, so I multiplied each egg's weight by .12 and then divided by 3 to calculate how much weight should be lost each 6 days.

Well one egg started at 46.9 and today weighed 42 , most of my eggs lost 4gms in 6 days a few lost 2gms and 2 lost none.

Any advice would be appreciated obviously my humidity is far to low. Have I completely screwed these eggs or can this be compensated for?

Also should I post a separate thread for this? I have found good responses here.

 

[FortCluck]

I need some advice from experienced hatchers. I'm hatching maran eggs, they were shipped. I'm weighing them to judge humidity because they're difficult to see anything. The breeder I bought from recommended 30-35% humidity. I calibrated my hygrometer by doing the salt test and after 24 hours it read 73, so I've been trying to keep my humidity between 27-32.

Well I weighed today (day 6) and holy cow I think I have a problem. If I'm understanding the weight that should be lost as 12%, so I multiplied each egg's weight by .12 and then divided by 3 to calculate how much weight should be lost each 6 days.

Well one egg started at 46.9 and today weighed 42 , most of my eggs lost 4gms in 6 days a few lost 2gms and 2 lost none.

Any advice would be appreciated obviously my humidity is far to low. Have I completely screwed these eggs or can this be compensated for?

Also should I post a separate thread for this? I have found good responses here.

Up it to about 40-45% if you can. If you correct it now, you shouldn’t have any issues.

 

[FortCluck]

I need some advice from experienced hatchers. I'm hatching maran eggs, they were shipped. I'm weighing them to judge humidity because they're difficult to see anything. The breeder I bought from recommended 30-35% humidity. I calibrated my hygrometer by doing the salt test and after 24 hours it read 73, so I've been trying to keep my humidity between 27-32.

Well I weighed today (day 6) and holy cow I think I have a problem. If I'm understanding the weight that should be lost as 12%, so I multiplied each egg's weight by .12 and then divided by 3 to calculate how much weight should be lost each 6 days.

Well one egg started at 46.9 and today weighed 42 , most of my eggs lost 4gms in 6 days a few lost 2gms and 2 lost none.

Any advice would be appreciated obviously my humidity is far to low. Have I completely screwed these eggs or can this be compensated for?

Also should I post a separate thread for this? I have found good responses here.

And no don’t post a separate thread. You will get plenty of opinions on here.

@CluckNDoodle @kelseyk @Vantic @Trisseh

and anyone else...