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Your air cells look of good size visually day 14 and day 16 weight loss is getting high on some and not others? My guess is some eggs are a lot older in collection than others, typical. That is one of the reason to always use ozexpats
++Egg Shippers Please Read++ letter when purchasing eggs. If its only day 16 you may want to add just a tad more humidity. Cochins or anyone else that weighs please add input! Most hatcheries a
im for 12 per cent total weight loss from initial egg weight during the first 18 days and 13-15% to pipping (between 0.6-0.7% per day) for optimum chick quality. I have it on my list to add more information with weighing to the incubation article but I haven't gotten there yet. You are doing awesome by weighing them! I would continue with what your doing just watch you dont loose too much so be sure your weighing correctly before adjusting. Also, have you been moving eggs to different spots in the bator throughout the incubation times? To be sure not hot or cold spots, sometimes this can effect the weight loss and hatch times as well. You have a fan model incubator I will assume running with that 100 degrees?
And in zooming in, it looks like your air cells on #20 is that a saddle? so hard to tell. I am looking and most are obvious as to the lower dip in the air cell. Again it will take your judgement with how to set some and not others for hatching. And when you say they are dark, dark is usually meaning their is a chick filling it up! Usually if they die at the latter stage you will be able to see a small portion of yellow around the air cell more clear than the rest and void of veining. They are very hard to see move in the latter stage so dont fret! You got this! Do any of the air cells still jiggle or move? If I cant see movement I always sniff the egg just in case its fowl, ooops foul
had to sorry!! lol
