Filling the incubator 6-3-2011 Join me for my 1st attempt?

[jfulcher]

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I am very sorry for your loss. May I ask did they internally pip???

 

[kraftyladies]

I am on day 20... I had to open mine this morning, because I have trouble keeping enough water in mine to keep humidity up. I didn't think you had to worry about shrink wrapping until they started pipping? So I might have messed up my hatch??

 

[jfulcher]

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I am worried about that too... I am crying my eyes out.... First hatch... Gone....

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

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What kind of incubator are you using? The humidity in my hovabator drops a lot. I insert a long, wide drinking straw down through the vent, between the eggs, and pour in warm water, so that the water doesn't touch the eggs. It seems to work really well.

 

[stitch81]

No, there were no internal pips. Some seemed to have absorbed some of the yolk, while others didn't seem to have absorbed anything at all. The membrane had shrunk down around them. This has been a big blow for me, as I know it was my doing. I have 7 healthy chicks, and I'll concentrate on them, but I think it will be a while before I try hatching again. I will be picking up some chicks at the local flea market in a couple of weeks so we will have a coop full, but I just don't have it in me right now to set another batch of eggs.

 

[kraftyladies]

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What kind of incubator are you using? The humidity in my hovabator drops a lot. I insert a long, wide drinking straw down through the vent, between the eggs, and pour in warm water, so that the water doesn't touch the eggs. It seems to work really well.

I have a Brinsea Eco Advance... it has one tiny slide vent area and one other vent on the side...too tiny for a straw. The last hatch I did I cut off the needle end of a butterfly needle and stuck the tubing in the vent hole and attached it to a syringe to fill it. The problem was, too flimsy to aim it where it needed to be, and too much water ended up underneath the incubator....not where it was supposed to be, very hard to get out or clean...the part it said to specifically not submerse in water. I am in Florida you would think as hot and humid as it is I would have no trouble keeping my humidity up...but I am

 

[kraftyladies]

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So sorry to hear about your hatch stitch.... I probably have messed mine up too.

 

[jfulcher]

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Means I might have killed my eggs.......................... What should I do!?

 

[ChicwannaB]

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Im glad I learned this from YOU, but what is shrink wrapping?? loss of humidity causing membrane to dry up around a chick or something? excuse me but I know absolutely nothing, thats why Im reading this.

 

[floridachickhatcher]

My hatching is almost complete i have 15 eggs left in the bator and so far i have only see one still rocking i think thats going to be the last chick that hatchs or IF i should say hatches and 18 in the tub brooder so far i have 10 BR,4 RSL,3 GSL or Ambers and 1 WR but its kind of puny looking i think its gonna die either tonight or tomorrow its butt is really big and hanging low its dragging almost