Advice needed...first incubation

[mstricer]

If I read right you have a still air, right? Your temp should be at 101* at the top of the eggs. You are going to have a late hatch if you have it set at 99. Bump it up and add a few days to your hatch. Leave a humidity at around 45%

 

[MontanaDolphin]

Yes it is still air. The temp fluxuates between 99 and 101.

 

[mstricer]

Make sure it stays at 101*

 

[MontanaDolphin]

ok I'll adjust the temp, thank you!

 

[Egghead_Jr]

After 4 hours the humidity with the salt test read 64%. I left it in the bag overnight (put it in at 6:30 last night), and this morning at 6:30 (12 hours later) it read 71%.

There we go. Any readings you make with it now just add 5% for accuracy. Doing that will keep you +/- 1% of true and that's more accurate than you need to be for hatching. The main thing is now you know your gauge is not completely out of whack and reads about 5% low.

Good Luck and don't forget to post pictures of the new chicks in a few weeks.

 

[MontanaDolphin]

Ok, so right now the humidity reads 20%, so it is actually 25%, correct?

Oh, and at last flip when I candled, I took pics. My camera SUCKS at trying to auto focus in low light (it has no manual focus), so some are blurry. But the dark speck you see in the pics are the "eyes"...at least that's what I think they are. I was wrong about egg #10 being a dud...it is actually egg #9.

Egg #1:



Egg #2:


Egg 3:


Egg 4:


Egg 5:


Egg 6:


Eggs 7 and 8 didn't photograph good enough...could just see a blurry shadow of the mini kidney bean. Egg 9 is a dud, nothing but yolk.

Egg 10:

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Looking really good. You may have found this sticky thread at the top of Incubating forum page. If not here are really good photos of development by days. Very cool.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

 

[mstricer]

Looks good you are on your way. When is your hatch date

 

[MontanaDolphin]

Looking really good. You may have found this sticky thread at the top of Incubating forum page. If not here are really good photos of development by days. Very cool.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

Yep, I found it when I started. I saved the progression photos to my computer for reference...I have satellite internet, so I have usage limits, and when I'm out of usage, it drops down to throttled speed so I can't see any pictures online. So i saved the pics for when I don't have any internet left

 

[MontanaDolphin]

Looks good you are on your way. When is your hatch date

January 2 will be day 21