- Apr 8, 2010
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first set of eggs (Ebay: Delaware) in my Christmas Brower incubator. yesterday was day 21 and nothing
late today, day 22, i woke up and ran to look, hoping for a surprise during the night and nothing
was looking on BYC for name of a good humidity meter, thinking that the cheap one i had wasn't working and that i killed this batch
and then i hear a loud cheeping, figured it was a sparrow on the patio, heard it again, then i thougth maybe... and YES! it's coming from the brower!
but none of the eggs were peeping, now i am fearing that with all that cheeping and no peeping, will it use up all her oxygen? I don't want to panic, but i am.
i have lost several batches and most of batches before, using the styrofoam bators and my wife got the brower for christmas hoping for a better success. several days after the hatch should have happened, i open the eggs to determine fertility or stage of formation and most have all looked like they were fully developed and didn't hatch. it is a really sad sick feeling, thinking i have screwed up somewhere and always at the very end of development.
i had better hatch rates from my first homemade incubator and before i learned of "Lockdown" so it seems the better the equipment, the the more i learn, the worse the outcome.
so, should i keep out and let them do their thing or is there a time i should help>

late today, day 22, i woke up and ran to look, hoping for a surprise during the night and nothing

was looking on BYC for name of a good humidity meter, thinking that the cheap one i had wasn't working and that i killed this batch

and then i hear a loud cheeping, figured it was a sparrow on the patio, heard it again, then i thougth maybe... and YES! it's coming from the brower!

but none of the eggs were peeping, now i am fearing that with all that cheeping and no peeping, will it use up all her oxygen? I don't want to panic, but i am.
i have lost several batches and most of batches before, using the styrofoam bators and my wife got the brower for christmas hoping for a better success. several days after the hatch should have happened, i open the eggs to determine fertility or stage of formation and most have all looked like they were fully developed and didn't hatch. it is a really sad sick feeling, thinking i have screwed up somewhere and always at the very end of development.
i had better hatch rates from my first homemade incubator and before i learned of "Lockdown" so it seems the better the equipment, the the more i learn, the worse the outcome.
so, should i keep out and let them do their thing or is there a time i should help>