Are my eggs on schedule?

[australorp_breeder]

I went to candle a few of my eggs and I don't see any veins yet. They have been incubated for a day and a half. Temp is 100, everything is fine. Am I just rushing this and it's too early to tell anything yet?

 

[Sweetfolly]

I can usually see veins around Day 3 or 4 - I think a day-and-a-half is a wee bit early!

 

[australorp_breeder]

Thank you so much

! I feel better now. This is my first time using an incubator, so I'm taking all the precautions I possibly can. During the day the temp is 100, but at night it drops down to 99...is that okay or enough to throw the eggs off?

 

[Sweetfolly]

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That should be okay, if it remains stable there. That would make the average temperature over the entire incubation period a perfect 99.5!

 

[australorp_breeder]

Awesome! I'm like making sure I don't even have my hands near the knob. Even though it's secured tight, I don't want to accidentally hit it. Do you add water into your incubators? I have a Hova-Bator model 1602 and there's a trough at the bottom where I put water. It says to add more water twice a week, but I wasn't sure if I could add room temperature water, or if it should be warm water. When I started up the incubator it called for warm water.

 

[chickenman17]

I put warm water. It works best because since the water is warm it won't cause the incubator to drop in temperature.