First time hatcher on day 20. please help.

[amijab]

I should have got on here before because I don't know if I have messed everything up. I have a brinsea incubator that holds seven eggs. The automatic egg turner has not turned today so I guess i am in lock down. But...I had to lift the lid to put more water in and take out the egg turner. So now i am worried that the humidity will not be high enough. I don't understand how I can not open to refill the water if the water evaporates? Also I hear a chick chirping, that does not look like i spelled that right. But I only hear one. What is zipping and pipping? Well i hope i get through this or atleast some chicks get through this. Any help would be so great.
thanks,
Mandy in Kaysville, Utah

 

[Christie Rhae]

I should have got on here before because I don't know if I have messed everything up. I have a brinsea incubator that holds seven eggs. The automatic egg turner has not turned today so I guess i am in lock down. But...I had to lift the lid to put more water in and take out the egg turner. So now i am worried that the humidity will not be high enough. I don't understand how I can not open to refill the water if the water evaporates? Also I hear a chick chirping, that does not look like i spelled that right. But I only hear one. What is zipping and pipping? Well i hope i get through this or atleast some chicks get through this. Any help would be so great.
thanks,
Mandy in Kaysville, Utah

Oh I know it is nerve wracking! I think the most important thing now is to not open the incubator. Let them do their thing, it could take 24 hours or more. Opening the incubator after a chick has pipped could dry out the chick and it could get stuck inside that dried out egg.
oh...
peeping= the chirps you hear
pipping= cracking that first little hole in the egg
zipping= when the chick starts cracking the top off its egg, like unzipping the egg.
and then hatch!
Good luck!

 

[amijab]

ok i don't say any pipping just peeping. But what do I do about the water. In order to keep humidity up I have to make sure water is there but I can't open the incubator to fill it.

 

[amijab]

That was supposed to say I don't "see" any pipping just peeping.

 

[amijab]

and i guess i dont "see" peeping, just "hear" peeping

 

[Christie Rhae]

and i guess i dont "see" peeping, just "hear" peeping

lol...late? lol
I gotchya. If it was me... and there was no pipping yet and the humidity was too low, I would warm up some water and put it in as quickly as ya could. Then don't open it again. When the first egg hatches the humidity seems to jump up a little. Just the humidity from the egg I guess.