Kizmet
Songster
- Feb 22, 2020
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Hi everyone!
I am a complete newbie with incubating and am on day 9. Stressing like crazy!
I set 50 eggs. These came from my own flock. I collected them over a period of about 5 days and daily turned the eggs that were waiting. Some of the eggs weren’t fertile and some started developing but showed blood rings yesterday, so at my last count there were about 40 still developing. Some of the ones that stopped I probably shouldn’t have bothered with due to the odd shell shape but I figured it was worth a try. Hopefully I get at least a couple hatching!
I’ve been reading about everything that can go wrong and I’m super stressed though. My temp has been a perfect and steady 37.5, eggs are on a 2 hour tilt pattern but my humidity is worrying me. I’ve just read so much conflicting information about what it should be. For the first week I’ve had it between 45-50%, a few times after filling the water trays it would go up to about 60% and slowly fall again. Now I’m concerned about it being too high and drowning the chicks so I’ve let it dip to around 40%. Some say it should be even lower! Comparing them to candling charts shows the air cells are about average for day 9. Am I on the right track or should I change my humidity?
And my other question; a couple of the eggs are Guinea Fowl and I realise now that incubation times for them will be longer. Should I just put everything into lockdown on day 18 and leave the GF eggs in there too?
Thanks in advance!
I am a complete newbie with incubating and am on day 9. Stressing like crazy!
I set 50 eggs. These came from my own flock. I collected them over a period of about 5 days and daily turned the eggs that were waiting. Some of the eggs weren’t fertile and some started developing but showed blood rings yesterday, so at my last count there were about 40 still developing. Some of the ones that stopped I probably shouldn’t have bothered with due to the odd shell shape but I figured it was worth a try. Hopefully I get at least a couple hatching!
I’ve been reading about everything that can go wrong and I’m super stressed though. My temp has been a perfect and steady 37.5, eggs are on a 2 hour tilt pattern but my humidity is worrying me. I’ve just read so much conflicting information about what it should be. For the first week I’ve had it between 45-50%, a few times after filling the water trays it would go up to about 60% and slowly fall again. Now I’m concerned about it being too high and drowning the chicks so I’ve let it dip to around 40%. Some say it should be even lower! Comparing them to candling charts shows the air cells are about average for day 9. Am I on the right track or should I change my humidity?
And my other question; a couple of the eggs are Guinea Fowl and I realise now that incubation times for them will be longer. Should I just put everything into lockdown on day 18 and leave the GF eggs in there too?
Thanks in advance!