12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[casportpony]

Thank you... @casportpony I assume, for moving our posts to the right thread.

You're welcome!

 

[cherrynberry]

Does this sound correct?

Humidity

Built-in humidity rings and dial hygrometer (for humidity monitoring) allows the user to easily control humidity. The humidity guage doesn’t just display the humidity percent, it shows you what range you should keep your humidity at for each phase of the incubation cycle. The flow-over humidity rings make it easy to fill just one, two, or all three humidity rings.

Yep but you have to open the cat entirely to fill water. That sort of rattles the eggs

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I set eggs on the 13th as well!!! Although I have a quick question. Yesterday and the day before the humidity went under 35percent and today morning it was at 10 percent!!!!! Are the eggs okay?! I have no idea what to do. The night before i added extra water. To 57 percent and by mornin the it drops like crazy

Yes, it's fine. Short periods of time with dropping and elevating humidity won't harm the hatch. Humidity is a tool to allow the eggs to lose just the right amount of weight for hatch. Many people find that not adding water in their styrofoam incubators actually offers the best weight loss but styrofoam, in general, holds more humidity than plastic. I find that in many of the plastic incubators 45-50% works best for me for the first 18 days. Humidity at lockdown/hatch is just to help to prevent the internal membrane from drying out once there is an external pip. I hope that helps you to understand humidity a little better and feel more comfortable with the fluctuations.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

An incuview

My IncuView is very dry as well. I try to keep it around 50% for the first 18 days. I think the fan is just kind of intense. lol

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Yep but you have to open the cat entirely to fill water. That sort of rattles the eggs

If you have a syringe or condiment bottle you can just squirt it through the mesh. That's what I do.

 

[cherrynberry]

Yes, it's fine. Short periods of time with dropping and elevating humidity won't harm the hatch. Humidity is a tool to allow the eggs to lose just the right amount of weight for hatch. Many people find that not adding water in their styrofoam incubators actually offers the best weight loss but styrofoam, in general, holds more humidity than plastic. I find that in many of the plastic incubators 45-50% works best for me for the first 18 days. Humidity at lockdown/hatch is just to help to prevent the internal membrane from drying out once there is an external pip. I hope that helps you to understand humidity a little better and feel more comfortable with the fluctuations.

Thanks for all your replies. Good to know! I hope they hatch!

 

[The Moonshiner]

@OneMountainAcres

Now get back to....

 

[BullChick]

I am hoping it is safe to say, and I am not jinxing myself! I’ve had a hen in a nest for well over an hour. If she is what I think she is, I won’t need to fuss with chicks in the house, and it’s one less clutch I have to deal with later!
In English, my girls co-brood, and are broody often. If this girl is sitting, one or five will join her... or seven, but I doubt that. If I put these chicks under her/them, I won’t have as many cockerels to process, or pullets to rehome/process.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I am hoping it is safe to say, and I am not jinxing myself! I’ve had a hen in a nest for well over an hour. If she is what I think she is, I won’t need to fuss with chicks in the house, and it’s one less clutch I have to deal with later!
In English, my girls co-brood, and are broody often. If this girl is sitting, one or five will join her... or seven, but I doubt that. If I put these chicks under her/them, I won’t have as many cockerels to process, or pullets to rehome/process.

I have a ton of broodies every year too but it doesn't seem like anyone wants to sit now that I have all of my incubators packed, lol. Looks like they're going to make me do all of the work.

 

[ronott1]

Yep but you have to open the cat entirely to fill water. That sort of rattles the eggs

Can you setup a filler using surgical hose?

The eggs should be fine though.