goodmanfarm
Songster
Hello everybody! I'm sort of confused here. This was my first time incubating eggs, (one dozen), and I made sure to take extra precaution, (not opening the incubator for longer than a minute at a time to refill waterers when necessary, keeping the humidity and temp under control, visiting them like six times a day just to observe.) I was SO elated when two of the eggs hatched on day 20, but now I'm confused. No activity on days 21 ad 22 and now it's day 26 and the eggs aren't pipping. 
I've never done the float test before but I'm thinking we do it tomorrow and see. We kept temp at about 38 degrees Celsius and humidity at 45 until day 18, then we placed the incubator on lockdown. We raised humidity to 65 and removed eggs gently yet quickly from the turner and placed them on the mesh. I figured if the eggs were bad they'd smell, but they don't so I've kept a little hope. We candled day 8, 15, and 18 before lockdown and I really thought they looked healthy. We saw some of the embryos flipping and twitching in the shells. Why aren't they hatching??
I've never done the float test before but I'm thinking we do it tomorrow and see. We kept temp at about 38 degrees Celsius and humidity at 45 until day 18, then we placed the incubator on lockdown. We raised humidity to 65 and removed eggs gently yet quickly from the turner and placed them on the mesh. I figured if the eggs were bad they'd smell, but they don't so I've kept a little hope. We candled day 8, 15, and 18 before lockdown and I really thought they looked healthy. We saw some of the embryos flipping and twitching in the shells. Why aren't they hatching??
