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

[Fatimetta]

I keep my humidity between 35-40% of I can. Keep in mind humidity is only a tool to affect weight loss in the eggs. You can gauge this by checking aircells or weighing eggs.

As for lockdown. To answer your question you must understand why people lockdown. It's to allow the chicks time to get into position for hatch. And increase humidity so that when they pip externally they won't dry out between pip-zip. There is no set day. The reason day 18-19 gets thrown out is to make sure the humidity is correct for any early hatchers you might have. I've seen posters "lock down" from days 15-20. If this is your first hatch day 18 is a good starting point.

Thank you! Can I rely on the air cell to tell me also? Like in the photos below

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Thank you! Can I rely on the air cell to tell me also? Like in the photos below

Definitely!

 

[wolfwalker]

My incubators could be mistaken for a popcorn machine right now.

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh man. That's sad news. My heart breaks for your family. If you need any help caring for your animals shoot me a PM. I'm not sure if you remember or not but we live very close to each other

I love BYC folks..and Utah neighbors. Thank you so much.

 

[juliasflock]

It’s day 17, prepped the incubator for lockdown, but won’t up the humidity until tomorrow. I’ve seen 5 of the 8 eggs wiggle already!!

 

[wolfwalker]

had to move 14 of the Aloha's out of the incubator (they were pulling the shells off those pipping) , which left 17 in various stages of pipping and zipping, but 3 have hatched since I sat down. I also moved 2 of my F1 olive egger crosses from the other incubator at the same time.

 

[CindyinSD]

had to move 14 of the Aloha's out of the incubator (they were pulling the shells off those pipping) , which left 17 in various stages of pipping and zipping, but 3 have hatched since I sat down. I also moved 2 of my F1 olive egger crosses from the other incubator at the same time.

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So pretty!

 

[casportpony]

Hi everyone, hope you are doing okay.

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[smfarman]

I'm on D14 with my FI4250 and will be candleing later today. Does anyone know how do you remove the turner (do you remove the whole thing or just the rails) thank you

 

[Jules929]

I'm on D14 with my FI4250 and will be candleing later today. Does anyone know how do you remove the turner (do you remove the whole thing or just the rails) thank you

I have the FI2450 model. I remove the whole turner tray for lockdown. I place the eggs in cartons while removing to prevent casualties, then lift the tray out and place the eggs back in. Good luck!