evergreendors
Chirping
- Jan 29, 2018
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Odd situation needing advice!!!!
So Serama eggs in Brinsea Maxi II last week. I'm down to 5 days on countdown as of today (set to 18 days). Wed early am fan was making huge racket. I Called Brinsea and left a message... nothing. Thurs am called again, nothing. Going out of town so need an answer. Thurs late afternoon I get a human and tell them what is going on. They're sending a fan. Prob an issue they say. Sending FedEx 2 day. Doesn't ship until Friday late afternoon, not due to arrive until Tuesday email says. Arrrggghhhh. Anyhow eggs in bator all this time. I, before I left on Sat afternoon, noticed temps dropping to 94-95 so I add heating pad under for more gentle heat to keep the box warm. Works ok to keep it between 98-99. Weirdly enough humidity skyrockets to 75% with barely any h2o in the well. I check eggs and figure I'm gonna see a high mortality rate. ALL 14 all moving about. This is after 36 hours of heat down and humidity way up. I decide they will either live or die while I wait for this fan and I'm not buying another bator. I come back from my short time away last night. Temps at 95.9 but humidity at 72% with NO water in the well!! How in hell? Anyhow once again figure all will be dead. I was gone for 48 hours so who knows what happened while I was gone. I candle them...ALL are still moving but 1! How is that even possible? They all do appear to be at different stages of growth now, but all are jumping beans in the shells. In fact one egg moved on its own this am. Like jumped about a bit.... I raise the temp on the heating pad and it is now at 99.4.
So the BIG QUESTION is will these little guys be horribly deformed? Mentally incapacitated? How is this even possible that they are alive? Yes my extra thermometer inside the bator was working just fine BEFORE the fan went haywire. Like it was EXACTLY where the bator said it was prior, so I have to assume the therm has not wet the bed. I'm guessing I just let them hatch and see what I get? Fan has just arrived, install it or wait?
So Serama eggs in Brinsea Maxi II last week. I'm down to 5 days on countdown as of today (set to 18 days). Wed early am fan was making huge racket. I Called Brinsea and left a message... nothing. Thurs am called again, nothing. Going out of town so need an answer. Thurs late afternoon I get a human and tell them what is going on. They're sending a fan. Prob an issue they say. Sending FedEx 2 day. Doesn't ship until Friday late afternoon, not due to arrive until Tuesday email says. Arrrggghhhh. Anyhow eggs in bator all this time. I, before I left on Sat afternoon, noticed temps dropping to 94-95 so I add heating pad under for more gentle heat to keep the box warm. Works ok to keep it between 98-99. Weirdly enough humidity skyrockets to 75% with barely any h2o in the well. I check eggs and figure I'm gonna see a high mortality rate. ALL 14 all moving about. This is after 36 hours of heat down and humidity way up. I decide they will either live or die while I wait for this fan and I'm not buying another bator. I come back from my short time away last night. Temps at 95.9 but humidity at 72% with NO water in the well!! How in hell? Anyhow once again figure all will be dead. I was gone for 48 hours so who knows what happened while I was gone. I candle them...ALL are still moving but 1! How is that even possible? They all do appear to be at different stages of growth now, but all are jumping beans in the shells. In fact one egg moved on its own this am. Like jumped about a bit.... I raise the temp on the heating pad and it is now at 99.4.
So the BIG QUESTION is will these little guys be horribly deformed? Mentally incapacitated? How is this even possible that they are alive? Yes my extra thermometer inside the bator was working just fine BEFORE the fan went haywire. Like it was EXACTLY where the bator said it was prior, so I have to assume the therm has not wet the bed. I'm guessing I just let them hatch and see what I get? Fan has just arrived, install it or wait?
