- Aug 5, 2014
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We just tried our first attempt of hatching eggs in our incubator. We have a still air incubator and I think some of our initial problems were temperature. We relied on the thermometer that came with the incubator, and I believe it was 3-4° F low. We have bought three other thermometers for the next try, one with a humidity reading. we had 22 eggs, and 5 hatched, and on day 22 at that, which could be attributed to the low temperature. I believe that a main problem was that when the first two or three hatched that ran crazy throughout the incubator, there where at least another 8 or 9 eggs pipped at that time, but the first ones kept running into the the other eggs and rolling them all over the place. So my questions are, how do you keep the first ones that hatched from disturbing the other eggs? Everything I have read says not to open the incubator at all during this time, and to leave the chicks in until they are fluffed, so there was nothing I could do because they took 12 hours to fluff. Also, what should the humidity be before the lock down period? Thank you