Eggs hatching... soon?

[cshma11]

that's a good thing that your temp is holding steady. so that can be ruled out.

next thing to look at will be humidity. if you have more eggs try running the humidity lower during incubation. maybe they are internal pipping and drowing.

are your eggs your own or shipped?

sorry about the loss of your lockdown egg.

my incubation has been a lot of reading threads and trial and error. but try another batch if it goes good try and duplicate it. if it goes bad try again and make a small change.

They're my own, so it's not shipping errors. I am handling them VERY gently. I will try lower humidity until the end with the next batch. Is there a way to tell if they're doing the internal pipping?

 

[feedman77]

bust egg open carefully and see if inner membrane has been punctured. when you are ready to toss them. and

if you ever hear cheeping they have internal pipped.

 

[feedman77]

one other thing I can think of is the vent plugs on top and holes in the bottom floor of incubator.

I removed my vent plugs on top. I incubate and hatch without them.

make sure the holes on bottom are not plugged up. so that way eggs are always getting a good oxygen exchange.

 

[cshma11]

Ok I will check those things when I get home!

 

[jojackc]

What should the humidity be at in the beginning? I just got a new digital thermometer and humidity probe. Its saying the humidity is 54-55% and the old one said it was only 40% maybe this is my problem.

 

[feedman77]

What should the humidity be at in the beginning? I just got a new digital thermometer and humidity probe. Its saying the humidity is 54-55% and the old one said it was only 40% maybe this is my problem.

are you running water in your wells?

I personally don't add any water during incubation. "dry incubation"

as long as it doesn't go below 20 or so I don't get to worried about it.

when they are within a day of hatching I jump it up to 65+.

but seems to work for me might not work for your situation.

but my hatches improved after I went to dry..

 

[LoveInNature]

are you running water in your wells?

I personally don't add any water during incubation. "dry incubation"

as long as it doesn't go below 20 or so I don't get to worried about it.

when they are within a day of hatching I jump it up to 65+.

but seems to work for me might not work for your situation.

but my hatches improved after I went to dry..

Hi, I am just starting out also and keep hearing how I should increase humidity and I haven't read anywhere how to do this. I have a Janoel-10 manual incubator that has a reservoir in the centre. I continue to refill it every 3 days as suggested to maintain the water level. I am at day 6 today.

 

[feedman77]

Hi, I am just starting out also and keep hearing how I should increase humidity and I haven't read anywhere how to do this.  I have a Janoel-10 manual incubator that has a reservoir in the centre.  I continue to refill it every 3 days as suggested to maintain the water level. I am at day 6 today.

anytime you add water you increase the humidity. too increase the humidity quicker use warm tap water.

if you still can't get humidity where you want it use wet paper towels or a wash cloth to increase the surface area. depth of water has some bearing but spread out will raise it quicker.

I'm not familiar with the incubator you mentioned so I cannot comment on that particular one.

 

[cshma11]

If the humidity is too high can I remove some water from the incubator (or all the water) with a turkey baster or something to suck it out, or will dropping the humidity once it's up hurt the developing eggs? The last viable egg stopped developing and didn't hatch. It hadn't fully absorbed the yolk and it died, so I have no idea what happened. I peeled the whole shell off and there was no sign of internal pipping, the whole membrane was intact, but it was dead. *sigh*
I have a new batch in the incubator (Little Giant 9300) and it's nice and clean, the red stoppers are out of the top, the temp is holding at 99-100. But the humidity is at 60% and I need to lower it, right? I just don't want to suddenly decrease the humidity if it will cause more harm than good.

 

[feedman77]

if you just started your batch.

take your eggs out of the incubator just dump the water out. replace the eggs.

it won't hurt them at all.

also if you run it for a day or so without water see what your incubator humidity gauge reads.

I have lgs, hovabators. and a brinsea. if i have them all going none of the humidity indicators read them same.

my lgs stay at 33 to 35 without water and may go to 60 to 65 full of water.