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

[Sally Sunshine]

O.K. thanks, I'll look for movement. If there is just put it back? The 4 Jap eggs that I added to the 10 shipped were fresh, and they didn't do anything.

yes and you need to recalibrate thermometers as yours is running too low if you still have life in the eggs

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: oh! well if you have to stagger in that bator, dont up humidity until you see your first internal pips and then try the 60-65% for hatch not sure what else you can do, I have dont that and had several great staggerds in the same bator, but its not ultimate as having a hatcher ready

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

oh!  well if you have to stagger in that bator, dont up humidity until you see your first internal pips and then try the 60-65% for hatch not sure what else you can do, I have dont that and had several great staggerds in the same bator, but its not ultimate as having a hatcher ready  

OK. What about trying to out like wet paper towels near the ones hatching and moving them as far from the others as I can? That way the others won't have really high humidity for too long.

 

[SarasNest]

Hello SarasNest!
can u show us your bator and its ventilation ?

I have 3 in this incubator ...One at the top just below the fan one at the top right (wires run threw that one) and the last you can see at the bottom left. I have the top back open 75% ..top right at 50% and the bottom at 50%

I am using this one as my hatcher and it also has 3 in about the same spots. The pic is older and I have made a few corrections to this bator.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: so your saying death is in the bottom one correct>?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I have a Q on ventilation? How do I know if it good enough. My last few hatchings haven't been so good with shipped eggs and I am trying to figure out what is going on. I am hatching some Doms right now and had 8 out of 12 make it to lockdown. 3 hatched with no problem at all the rest are dead after the internal pip!!! I took them out of the shell to see what went wrong and they look perfect!?! Temps have been fine and RH has been 1-18 25-30% 18-21 60-65% ..the ones that have hatched out are not to wet or dry. The only thing I can think of is the Ventilation

Are you sure you dont have other issues?

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[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: Surface area of water will increase humidity more so than depth so the entire bator will go up regardless, unless you have room to put them in a high plastic dish with a dish of marbles/water? they need oxygen at this stage so never cover them, you can try that and add the gauge and see what the humidity is there vs the rest of the bator,
seriously only an idea, I never did anything special but wait until I see first pips and then up humidity and after hatch remove them fast and get the humidity down lower as fast as I could.

Dont get plastic close to heating elements, but that comes without saying LOL
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[Sally Sunshine]

FYI I lost sat signal four times in a row now! sorry!

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

[COLOR=333333]Surface area of water will increase humidity more so than depth so the entire bator will go up regardless, unless you have room to put them in a high plastic dish with a dish of marbles/water? they need oxygen at this stage so never cover them, you can try that and add the gauge and see what the humidity is there vs the rest of the bator,[/COLOR] [COLOR=333333]seriously only an idea, I never did anything special but wait until I see first pips and then up humidity and after hatch remove them fast and get the humidity down lower as fast as I could. [/COLOR]

Dont get plastic close to heating elements, but that comes without saying LOL
.

Him...ok. I'll just up it once I see/hear pips and then get it down quick.

 

[SarasNest]

so your saying death is in the bottom one correct>?

yes that is the one..I am not sure how to tell if the ventilation is right