Day 21 - Waiting... Waiting...

[Mmmatt13]

Today is day 21 and so far I haven't heard peeping. I'm getting anxious. This is my first Brinsea hatch, 8 fertile eggs are sitting in there doing nothing but driving me insane.

What to do, what to do...

 

[CCourson05]

Go for a walk. Go play with the big girls... Read a book in a room where you can't here chirps when they start.. Make a time to go see the eggs in like 4 hours..

 

[Jocasta]

Similar boat here - I've got ten pips from 12 eggs. I noticed the first pip nearly 16hrs ago and it's not changed

Getting pretty worried now tbh

Everyone keeps saying that up to 24hrs is normal but I totally get what you mean about being driven to insanity!!!

 

[Mmmatt13]

It's been 4 hours. Still nothing.

 

[CCourson05]

I spend WAYYY to much time on this site... I was like, "Really? I said that four hours ago..." Wow.

Anyway, just wait... What incubator and what temp?

 

[Mmmatt13]

Hahaha yep. Crazy, huh?

Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance EX, 99.6, 45% the first 18 days, 75% for lockdown.

 

[CCourson05]

Nice incubator... We doing ducks here? Because if not, that humidity is too high..

 

[Mmmatt13]

Chickens. But I'm in Colorado, high altitude, dry dry dry. I'll move humidity down a little and see how that works.

 

[CCourson05]

I wouldn't worry about it at this point... I hope all goes well though.. I don't really know about altitude alterations... Are they drastically different?

 

[Mmmatt13]

I've heard that some people from Colorado have it up as high as 80% during hatching, and I've also heard that it can't be too high unless it's within the developing stages, but I could be wrong. I guess we'll see.
My last hatch (in a HovaBator still air) had some MAJOR temp and humidity fluctuations and I still got 10 happy babies - they all hatched within 24 hours, starting halfway through day 20. My humidity for that hatch was close to 50% for the first 18 days, then 70something from 18 to hatch, going all the way up to 80 at one point during the hatch.

I really hope I didn't screw this up. These eggs are expensive.