Anybody know about Maticoopx incubator?

[The Moonshiner]

At least until they are dry and fuzzy. You want to keep the humidity up, 72% is good. If it were me I'd wait until it was getting a bit crowded and then move them to the brooder as quickly as I could so the temp and humidity don't drop too much.

Same.
I've left them in for 24 hours plenty of times.

 

[PoppasGrill]

2 hatched late last night, and another 3 this morning so far, out of 20 eggs.
This was number 5
We have a mixed flock with EE, RIR, Barred Rock, Cemani, Buff Orp, Sussex, Leghorns, and Brahma/lite, so these little ones could be a Heinz 57 of anything.

 

[The Moonshiner]

And so it begins.
Hope you get a lot more and would love an update when your hatch is through.

 

[PoppasGrill]

And so it begins.
Hope you get a lot more and would love an update when your hatch is through.

Will do, hoping to get 80% hatch rate, as stated earlier, at least 2 weren’t developing when candled at day 12 or so.
Will show us that the humidity “standard” in the manual is very flexible.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Yeah unlike temperature that needs to stay steady throughout I found that humidity is more forgiving and more about over the period not so much constant. I usually really only worry about it too much during lockdown.

 

[PoppasGrill]

Yeah unlike temperature that needs to stay steady throughout I found that humidity is more forgiving and more about over the period not so much constant. I usually really only worry about it too much during lockdown.

As we said at the beginning, this was our first time using an incubator so we tried to go “ by the book”. We didn’t know how much leeway was good or bad.
A definite learning experience, and some healthy, and soon to be fat and happy, chicks.

 

[The Moonshiner]

As we said at the beginning, this was our first time using an incubator so we tried to go “ by the book”. We didn’t know how much leeway was good or bad.
A definite learning experience, and some healthy, and soon to be fat and happy, chicks.

Well let me know if you ever get it figured out because I've been doing it for years and there's been times I thought I did everything right and everything seemed right but I didn't have a good hatch.
Then other times that it seemed like everything was going wrong and I had a good hatch.
I think we're always learning and trying to do better and probably some luck involved but that's what makes hatching so much fun and rewarding even when we have one that wasn't so good.

 

[PoppasGrill]

Totaled 15/20 hatched, 2 passed after hatch. Not positive if the EE eggs were even fertilized
They are moved to the brooder with heat lamp.

 

[Susan Skylark]

I’ve given up trying to regulate humidity in these cheap little bubble incubators (and the water bottles are just a mess). I’ve done a wet hatch (ran 80 percent the whole time) and a dry hatch (no water added until lockdown, 10 percent humidity) both 100 percent hatch rate on quail. The dry hatch chicks were the most vigorous I’ve ever hatched but no difference in chick health or long term growth. Now that’s what I do, no water until lockdown (at which it is 80, too high in theory but can’t get it lower). I pull chicks after a couple hours once they are up right and walking around as they never dry at that humidity. And at that humidity you don’t have to worry too much about shrink wrapping if you’re quick, it pops right back up when the dome is closed. Make sure temp is accurate and steady and most everything else is optional (and turning!). Enjoy your chicks! I have a dozen pipping tonight too!

 

[PoppasGrill]

We have noticed that the incubator clutch are a lot calmer than day old store chicks.
We have 12 store chicks, hard to find breeds, that are 2 wks old in a seperate brooder box. Noticed that when we get within sight they run screaming and bouncing off the side of the brooder.
Whereas the incubator hatched clutch just stand there looking at us when we make a noise, no panicking or running around because of us. They do run around and chase each other, so I’m not saying they aren’t active, just not reactive as such.