HarmonyFox
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- Apr 5, 2018
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This is my first time trying to hatch anything seriously and with an incubator. All the other times were when I was a child with a light in my bedroom side table drawer like in this movie I saw about a girl finding, hatching, and raising geese. I've researched hatching eggs but there's a lot of conflicting information so it gets very confusing. I really want these babies to live so any advice, opinions, and help is much appreciated!
I am using the little giant still air incubator. It's a newer model than most I've seen in youtibe videos so the thermometer hangs down at egg level and it's a black box with red wires on the sides that heats up the eggs. I have 10 eggs placed in a circle around the box to get the best equal heat. Right now the temp flucuates from 99.6 to 100.2 because I read it should be a little hotter if its a still air incubator. I recently read that I should have the humidity pretty low though which is not what I was originally doing. At first the humidity flucuated from 55% to 58% but I'm worried about the air sac development so I've taken a lot of the water out to get it down but so far it is only 49%. I flip them 3 times a day at 12AM, 8AM, and 4PM or if I'm sleeping and I wake up half asleep and franticly flip them at an extra opposite time like at 4AM, 12PM, or 8PM but that doesn't happen too often. Maybe once every couple of days will that happen.
I'm worried though that their air sacs might be too small. I will post two pictures of each egg, one of the blood veins and the other of the air sac. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
P.s. I edited all the photos so that you could see the veins better. Also they are 10 days old today, April 17th. They were not shipped. I took a day trip to go pick them up along with guineas and turkeys.
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2.) I could barely see the air sac on this one so I kinda guessed. This is the only one that is so hard to see.
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10.) It's hard to see but it has blood veins.
I am using the little giant still air incubator. It's a newer model than most I've seen in youtibe videos so the thermometer hangs down at egg level and it's a black box with red wires on the sides that heats up the eggs. I have 10 eggs placed in a circle around the box to get the best equal heat. Right now the temp flucuates from 99.6 to 100.2 because I read it should be a little hotter if its a still air incubator. I recently read that I should have the humidity pretty low though which is not what I was originally doing. At first the humidity flucuated from 55% to 58% but I'm worried about the air sac development so I've taken a lot of the water out to get it down but so far it is only 49%. I flip them 3 times a day at 12AM, 8AM, and 4PM or if I'm sleeping and I wake up half asleep and franticly flip them at an extra opposite time like at 4AM, 12PM, or 8PM but that doesn't happen too often. Maybe once every couple of days will that happen.
I'm worried though that their air sacs might be too small. I will post two pictures of each egg, one of the blood veins and the other of the air sac. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
P.s. I edited all the photos so that you could see the veins better. Also they are 10 days old today, April 17th. They were not shipped. I took a day trip to go pick them up along with guineas and turkeys.
1.)
2.) I could barely see the air sac on this one so I kinda guessed. This is the only one that is so hard to see.
3.)
4.)
5.)
6.)
7.)
8.)
9.)
10.) It's hard to see but it has blood veins.
it's actually why I'm worried.
