April 2020 Hatch-A-Long! All are welcome!

[CluckNDoodle]

When you say you ROTATE, do you mean hand turn them, or do you mean you actually swap out their location 2 x a day??

It's a good habit to move eggs around many incubators to make up for hot and cold spots.

 

[FortCluck]

and what is a blood ring??

Blood Ring is when the chick has died in the egg and all of the blood from all the veins makes a ring around the egg because the blood has settled.

 

[My hen house]

Are you sure it didn't internally pip? It may just be that you can't see the beak easily through the little pip hole. You shouldn't need to add coconut oil with just a tiny hole as long as your humidity is at a good level in your incubator.

It internally pip a small hole

Is this hole to big or is it okay

 

[FortCluck]

When you say you ROTATE, do you mean hand turn them, or do you mean you actually swap out their location 2 x a day??

I'm not sure if you are familiar with volleyball or the rotation of volleyball, but you can rotate your eggs that way throughout the incubator.

 

[Stormer04]

Hey I am hatching 12 Chicks that are due today. One of them started to pip through yesterday about this time. So hopefully it will come out today. The breed is a hybrid that we got from a friend. I will be setting some quail eggs in about a week and maybe some turkey eggs and you never know a goose egg my wander in to.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It internally pip a small hole View attachment 2089237
Is this hole to big or is it okay

That should be ok. If there's a hole through the internal an external membranes then it's getting oxygen and it's just a matter of waiting now. You will be able to see if the membrane begins to discolor if it gets too dry.

 

[My hen house]

You will be able to see if the membrane begins to discolor if it gets too dry.

Yeah I'll binge watch a show to keep me occupied and still watching while I wait

 

[karenerwin]

It internally pip a small hole View attachment 2089237
Is this hole to big or is it okay

You really don't want to mess with it too much. Just relax and remember it can take a looong time to get from this to hatched out!! Be patient.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Flip is so pretty!!

Are you using the calibration feature? You can set the temp at 99.5 and scroll down further when in adjustment mode and change the calibration temp.

I literally calibrated it -9° and it shot up to 102°. What the heck? I seem to have honed in by setting the room temp to 80-85 and the set temp to 96.5° and then it finally drops to 99.5° on the trusted therm. Not sure why it’s doing this with both of my incuviews but I guess as long as I can get them to 99.5° it’s fine. I “need” a third incubator and I was just about to go grab a Nurture right 360 on amazon but they are back ordered. So I guess I’ll buy another incuview.

Considering looking at a hovabator 2370. Anyone here have one and like it? I can’t remember, do you have one @CluckNDoodle?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I literally calibrated it -9° and it shot up to 102°. What the heck? I seem to have honed in by setting the room temp to 80-85 and the set temp to 96.5° and then it finally drops to 99.5° on the trusted therm. Not sure why it’s doing this with both of my incuviews but I guess as long as I can get them to 99.5° it’s fine. I “need” a third incubator and I was just about to go grab a Nurture right 360 on amazon but they are back ordered. So I guess I’ll buy another incuview.

Considering looking at a hovabator 2370. Anyone here have one and like it? I can’t remember, do you have one @CluckNDoodle?

So calibration is backwards if I remember correctly. I have to double check it every time I change it because it confuses me. So since my incubator runs hot, mine shows + 1.5 degrees.

Check Tractor Supply for an NR360. That's where I got all of mine, they ship too if your local store is out of stock. I do like my IncuView but what your experiencing is something I go through at the beginning of every hatch in there, plus getting the humidity just right is harder for me in the IncuView. My NR360s are SO user friendly. You won't know what to do with such an easy incubator. You could incubate in there and hatch in the IncuView that's what I've started to do unless I want to get really clear pictures, then I leave them to hatch in the NR360. It's not hard to clean really...it's just that the IncuView is so easy to clean that it ruined me. lol

EDIT: I do have my room temp set accurately so that would make sense that you had to set it at a higher room temp in order to calibrate it in the opposite direction.