December Hatch-A-Long 2014

[Daisyfern]

Advice, please! I am on day 19 with a Brinsea 20 advance. The humidity has dropped to 60%. It is almost nine p.m. Here and I am afraid it will continue to drop overnight. I have a humidifier blowing toward the incubator.

I am afraid to open the incubator to add more water! Do I chance it? Do I leave things alone? I have read conflicting reports and would hate to mess things up so close to the end!

Thanks so much!

 

[Skink]

Advice, please! I am on day 19 with a Brinsea 20 advance. The humidity has dropped to 60%. It is almost nine p.m. Here and I am afraid it will continue to drop overnight. I have a humidifier blowing toward the incubator.

I am afraid to open the incubator to add more water! Do I chance it? Do I leave things alone? I have read conflicting reports and would hate to mess things up so close to the end!

Thanks so much!

Has anyone pipped yet? If not, a suggestion I once saw is steaming up a bathroom by running very hot water and opening the incubator in there when the humidity is super high. Fill both water pots as high as possible, and if they are drying out on you too soon, try adding a wet cloth, sponge, or paper towel wad wherever you can fit it. I have never tried this personally (am only working on my second hatch) so if anyone else has opinions on this, please do weigh in on this.

I would personally go to sleep, and if it had dropped significantly in the morning as I feared but no one had pipped then and only then try the steamed room thing. Since your vents are open you could also bring a pot of hot water in to raise the ambient room humidity in hopes it helps without opening the 'bator.

 

[Daisyfern]

No pips yet.
Thanks for your advice! I'll try to stay calm and check the humidity again in the morning.

 

[justoldbobo2]

My first quail has hatched

 

[Renee572]

My first quail has hatched

congrats.

 

[Daisyfern]

Day 20. Added a hot, wet sponge. Humidity has settled on 69%, so I'm hoping it will stay around there another couple of days!

No pips yet. I'm glad I have to go teach school. If I was home all day I'd go stir crazy and check on them constantly!

Come on chicks, work hard!!!

 

[Purpletie3]

....Just got the first Rhodebar to hatch... I had two X-large eggs and two large eggs make lockdown. The two smaller ones pipped through blood vessels. First lil guy died. Second little guy I pulled to monitor, since the water pot was empty and I had to open the stinking cover anyhow...so,, little pipper got to spend the day in his own incubator with nice high humidity. About midnight he was folded and stuck. SO, I helped him out of the shell and he is back in his own incubator, Still nothing on the XL Rhodebar eggs. Yesterday was day 22. I will leave them go til Friday. So, on the water note...I have been boiling water all day bc my humidifier is shot. But, the Brinsea Mini ran out....any idea of a way of filling it without lifting the lid???? This is my first hatch in this incubator...

Quite honestly...I don't know how any of these little guys make it out of their shells...It's a miracle!

 

[Purpletie3]

So
So sorry you had such a horrible hatch Renee572. Mine isn't going so good either. Set 72, shipped & mine at day 7 candle saw 21 embryos started, couldn't see in a bunch, had some clears to get rid of. Candled today day 11, blood rings in 3 of the growing eggs & 27 clears. Did eggtopsy on 30 eggs this morning they were all duds.
I have 35/72 eggs still in the incubator of which I can only see for certain growth in 18 of them. 36/72 of the eggs were mine, I was pretty certain quiet a few weren't fertile because I hadn't seen the roosters with a number of my hens. So for those eggs I wasn't too surprised, but the success of the shipped eggs is horrible. Will just have to wait and see what I end up with on Christmas.

I have had a similar experience with my shipped eggs...I think they get scrambled in the shipping process or frozen...Best of luck to you!

 

[Daisyfern]

Sending positive vibes your way as you wait on the remaining eggs to hatch.
I have a Brinsea too (20 advance) and I wonder if the humidity pump would be a good investment.
I wonder if that would keep the water filled up without opening top and risking the eggs.

....Just got the first Rhodebar to hatch... I had two X-large eggs and two large eggs make lockdown.  The two smaller ones pipped through blood vessels. First lil guy died.  Second little guy I pulled to monitor, since the water pot was empty and I had to open the stinking cover anyhow...so,, little pipper got to spend the day in his own incubator with nice high humidity. About midnight he was folded and stuck. SO, I helped him out of the shell and he is back in his own incubator,   Still nothing on the XL Rhodebar eggs.  Yesterday was day 22. I will leave them go til Friday.  So, on the water note...I have been boiling water all day bc my humidifier is shot. But, the Brinsea Mini ran out....any idea of a way of filling it without lifting the lid????  This is my first hatch in this incubator...

Quite honestly...I don't know how any of these little guys make it out of their shells...It's a miracle!

 

[KDob521]

Day 20. Added a hot, wet sponge. Humidity has settled on 69%, so I'm hoping it will stay around there another couple of days!

No pips yet. I'm glad I have to go teach school. If I was home all day I'd go stir crazy and check on them constantly!

Come on chicks, work hard!!!

Good luck! Good luck!