7 eggs in lockdown!
Hi Sally
welcome back, hope you had a great time on vacation!! we missed you!!
I have been trying to keep up with everyone's hatches but since many of the questions with regard to incubator temps are out of my league...I still use my styrobators,
I feel inadequate to add any real information. But as I've noted many of us had bad hatches through April I'm wondering if it was related to something else?
I know I've hatched several batches, but my successes are not consistent enough to offer "expertise" thus I refrain.
I have noticed with my own hatches that if I keep temps a tad higher in the still air they seem to do better than in the air fan bator.
So I use the still air for the first 18 days with the turner, then move them to air fan hatcher bator for lockdown.
With the Blue Andalusian eggs I've noticed that temps in lockdown need to remain lower -not sure if it's just a breed thing or what?
With my EE eggs and other "brown" eggs keeping temps at 99.5 seems work perfect.
Now for humidity, with the BA eggs higher humidity in first 18days then when moved to lockdown maintaining aroun 50% seems to work, although this is true of all eggs I believe.
So my question is this, anyone here care to document on a chart for the various "rare" breed eggs and their troubles,findings etc.?
My theory is that with some of the rare breeds seem to be more fragile initially then the "regular" or "mutt" eggs? Let me know, I'm interested to learn if I'm on the right track.
