warez*sunny :
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Thank you.. I sure hope they are fine.. After looking at the eggs again.. I think I see only 2 that are not doing the small end tilted down thing now.. Thats what I was thinking, maybe that is so they will pip at the right end?? Im new so have no idea.. And I have never even watched a hatch.. And my home made incubator, well it is a bit iffy.. I really need to get some thing to tell the humidity too..
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I havent had time to read all the *stickys*. I have two small kids at home. And eggs to watch.. But I have read quiet a few.. Im still clueless.. And a bit nervous that this wont work.. I have a 6 year old, she gets sad at the thought of them all being "dead".
Sometimes it doesn't work.
The problem you will have is that you won't know WHY it didn't work, should that be the result. That reduces your chances of more success next time and, ultimately, will end up with you being disillusioned.
Incubating doesn't respond well to much in the way of guesswork.
For example ... you say you have 3 night light bulbs for heat. This is borderline for even a small incubator. Your heater is about 21W. Even the small Genesis and Hovabators have 25W, and they are actually quite difficult to keep stable. We are talking about 1/2 a degree F stability, for 3 weeks. Less accuracy than that and you can't be sure that temp. fluctuations didn't cause problems.
Humidity is less critical, but still important. Yours might be close to perfect, but without knowing what it is, you wouldn't know if 10 dead-in-shells were caused by low humidity or not ....
See what I mean?
Incubation is actually very simple, but it isn't always easy. Take a chicken egg .... keep a good egg at 99.5 and 50% humidity for 18 days, turn it regularly. Then keep it at 70% humidity for 3 days, and a chick will emerge .... simple.
This demands at least a hat-tip to accuracy.
We all have to learn and BYC is a great place for help and support, but it is important that the basics are adhered to for us to offer any meaningful advice. It doesn't need to cost $$$ either. A decent temp/humidity meter can be had for less than $10, and a secondhand Hovabator for under $50.
Keep going, and good luck.
edited - thanks for kindly worded reminder
