Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

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pinky67 said:
Hi all! HELP! Need some advice! Incubating shipped silkie eggs...day 11. Nice veining and movement in all. Almost all have large saddle or partial saddle air cells. I have kept them upright and only started turning at day 7. I think the humidity was high the first week 60-65
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(didn't have a hygrometer just followed Brinseas directions) Have a hygro now and have been running about 40 for the past few days. My question is should I increase or decrease the humidity because of the already large air cells? Or will it make no difference? Thanks so much for any input!!!
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I think its a turning issue...but maybe some of these pros can give you and answer
 
Ok, I figured everyone could do with not turning for a half day before Lockdown but I wanted to be sure no one saw any flaws in my setup before L-Day. I can see all my eggs from the two windows. Side A has all the best chance eggs and Side B (with the wire cage) has all the solid iffies and wildcard eggs. I had to get country creative with the seperation cage in the end. I never got a chance to go out so it's chicken wire with duct tape on all the edges to get rid of sharp points. I also lysoled the heck out of it since all the components came from the garage. It was a pain too, I made it about half an inch too tall and had to squish it into a wider shape to stop it from touching the element or fan components. Not to mention layering the tape so that no sticky spots stayed exposed.

Am I missing anything? Does anyone see anything they think I should change?






 
kelly77 said:
She is hatching chick #2 now!! I went in the room and I heard 2 chicks chirping...and sure enough she was pecking at the shell...Wow she makes it so easy and to think she didn't go online and research all the info as I did hahaha its all natural and programed in her
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AMAZING!!!! and you crack me up!!! but true story!! LOL
 
pinky67 said:
Hi all! HELP! Need some advice! Incubating shipped silkie eggs...day 11. Nice veining and movement in all. Almost all have large saddle or partial saddle air cells. I have kept them upright and only started turning at day 7. I think the humidity was high the first week 60-65
hmm.png
(didn't have a hygrometer just followed Brinseas directions) Have a hygro now and have been running about 40 for the past few days. My question is should I increase or decrease the humidity because of the already large air cells? Or will it make no difference? Thanks so much for any input!!!
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if your sure they are large you can increase would be my guess, I dont have that type of incubator though... anyone use the Brinseas INcubators????? saddle shaped cells are typical of shipped eggs, see the hatching 101 article and scroll down to the section "it pipped the wrong end" and look a few pics below in regards to saddle shaped eggs and chick positions.....
 
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