Okay...I read through the info for the differences that we will have this time around with the eggs being shipped: We have a
Brinsea 40 and humidity pump. Our last incubation (our first with the
Brinsea) we had the temp set to 99.4...and the humidity set to 44%. We had 19 eggs and all hatched out and are healthy
We turned the cooling feature on, on day 7 and used that time to candle eggs twice before lock down. We incubated with them on their side instead of "pointy end down"....they were slightly tilted. On lockdown we just put them down on their little no slip mat and only had to help one escape from it's egg. So....from my understanding it will differ this time as follows:
Get eggs from post office. Candle and find the air cell.
Wait at least 6 hours before placing in the incubator. Bringing to room temperature.
If air cell in in tact we can keep in the incubator in the cradle for them to begin turning right away....
If the air cell is jiggly or saddle etc we need to wait to turn anywhere up to 3 days
(The when to turn is throwing me off a bit)
Also...If it is jiggly/saddle shaped do we candle after 24 hours in the incubator with no turning to look and see if the air bubble has attached??
We are planning on throwing some of our Easter Eggers eggs in the incubator as well...So will they be okay with the possibility of not turning for a bit if that step is necessary??
Then we wait....lock down comes around and my question is...we have to keep the shipped eggs tilted?? So I cannot place them directly on the no-slip mat??
And lastly...Do we need to alter the temp/humidity from last time or are we good to go there??
Man...there's so much to learn with this shipping eggs business lol!! We are doing this for breeding purposes but I'm going to be more crazy this time around then I was with our flocks last incubation round!!
Thanks for the input and advice! We really appreciate it
