27th or 28th May hatch, looking for buddies

[AlexKilpatrick]

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I believe you are overthinking this. You will lose humidity for the ~1 minute you have the incubator open, but within a few minutes the humidity will be back to the stable point it will reach based upon the amount of water surface area you have. I can't imagine this will have any real effect on the eggs or hatching.

 

[kraftyladies]

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I'm jealous...not about your hygrometer quitting

but about your first pip!

Everytime I walk into the kitchen I am staring at the eggs, hoping for a sign of something.....

 

[GeoKan]

I ' M O F F I C I A L L Y I N L O C K D O W N !

Lost 10. Have 20 that made it. A couple are questionable. 1 was a stink bomb. I picked that one up early — thank goodness!

Best of luck everyone!

I hope my incubator doesn't go haywire. I'm having trouble with the thermostat blinking on and off — like it's stuck. The click doesn't happen.

It was stable until I bumped the humidity above 70 percent. Must be the moisture messing with it.

See my eggs here ------> http://geoseggcam.dyndns.tv

 

[natchlaly]

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Keeping my

for all of us too . Am getting excited now to the point were I am on day 19 and look in the bator at least once every 15 mins to look for pips

GeoKan I am sending you special +ve vibes to ensure that your bator behaves for you

 

[Mrs.brown]

I lockeddown anyways. I probably will turn out like the person in giggleboxfarm's dream.

 

[danijereme]

I put my eggs in on the night of the 5th. Some of the bantums have started piping

My husband is home and he called me and told me that they have poked a hole in their shell and he didn't know what to do lol.

 

[natchlaly]

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awh bless him all I can say is it is a good job that is us women who have the babies

 

[Lightfoote]

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I believe you are overthinking this. You will lose humidity for the ~1 minute you have the incubator open, but within a few minutes the humidity will be back to the stable point it will reach based upon the amount of water surface area you have. I can't imagine this will have any real effect on the eggs or hatching.

Maybe, but I doubt it.

Warmer water will humidify more readily, and will also detract less from the ability of the heat source to re-heat the chamber following the addition of the water.

Some have incubators with a built-in means of adding water without opening the incubator. I have not added such a feature to my "mega-bator" (see photos earlier in this forum topic) but I am considering doing it, as it would be incredibly easy - and if I do I would definitely lean towards adding water that is already "at temperature".

 

[AlexKilpatrick]

I have one chick that has hatched pretty much at the beginning of lockdown, with 3 days left. When should I take her out of the incubator and put her in the brooder? I don't want to leave her in there for the whole three days until the rest of the eggs hatch.

 

[Lightfoote]

Temperature staying pegged between 99 and 101 on my Ameraucana clutch, "locked down" in my crude brood lamp/styro box incubator.

I found out that my local pet store carried analog humidity gauges intended to function in terrariums for reptiles and amphibians - cheap but accurate. The relative humidity in the little box is holding steady between 68% and 75%.

I also bought a digital thermometer with a probe on a long cord, placed it in amongst my eggs in the MegaBator...and it is reading within +/- 1 degree of my long stemmed analog compost thermometer. The digital is definitely more fluctuation-sensitive - it registers in tenths of a degree, and will rise .2 or .3 or fall the same. I rather expect it is cycling up and down in synch with the waterbed thermostat, but the large cabinet is staying between 98 and 99.7 Hurray!