Day 18.....Lockdown

[LDeBona]

My eggs will hatch in 4 days. I have the brinsea mini advanced incubator, should I put a wet paper towel under the eggs or just leave them were they are?

I personally would not use a paper towel.

 

[LDeBona]

will they die if i completely stop turning them during lockdown?

Stop turning the eggs at lockdown. The chicks will be orienting themselves for hatching. Raise the humidity and don't open the incubator for any reason. They know what to do Good luck!

Leslie

 

[FVRM]

Thanks for the info everyone. They are in complete lockdown since last night. Whatever happens happens.

 

[showbarnmom]

My stats for this hatch - set 43, locked down 36, 30 hatched. (Unfortunately 9 died when the brooder over heated ). Not a bad hatch for my first incubator hatch I think

 

[gimmie birdies]

the living ones are the strongest ones! happy day!

 

[montain_dweller]

I've got 6 sweedish flowers going into lockdown tomorrow. Hoping for a better outcome then my first go around.

 

[Frankie Ruiz]

i have my next clutch of eggs due in 11-12 days !

 

[gimmie birdies]

me too! mine will be chicks!

 

[LDeBona]

Good luck everyone! A friend of mine brought me a dozen Royal Palm turkey eggs on Saturday. She had a turkey that abandoned her nest.
She wasn't sure how long the "hen" had been sitting on them. I fired up the bator Saturday morning and quickly started candling the eggs. The first few just had a floating yolk. A couple had some slight veining. Two were totally full and have moving chicks inside!! I'm so concerned about the humidity, turning, and timing! This morning I woke up to a pip!!! I have 9 eggs standing in the rails and the three advanced eggs lying on their sides not in rails. I've tried to raise the humidity without opening the bator but I can't get it as high as I'd like to.

To complicate matters worse, I'm afraid I have a stinker! There is a foul smell coming from the bator. I can't open it to investigate because of the pip! Help!!!


Leslie

 

[gimmie birdies]

good luck! I had a turkey who sat on her eggs never hatched one- once I saw her carry a stinker from her nest and she was running with it and it broke in her mouth as she was carrying it- boy was she unhappy!