Yesterday morning (Day 20) my wife heard some peeps from upstairs where we keep the incubator. Upon checking we found 2 peeps sprawled out on top of the other eggs in our Brinsea ECO20. Great! I figured I'd leave them there and see how many more hatched during the day. By the time I got home from work 7 more had hatched and I had yellow peeps jammed everywhere inside of the incubator. Nine of the little buggers were packed in that thing. They had to come out.
I got a brooder box together and quickly moved the chicks over into the brooder and removed the discarded egg shells. I took a paper towel with hot water on it and placed it in an area without any eggs and the humidity came right back up nicely. Over the course of the evening 4 more hatched out and were quickly placed with their comrades in the brooder box bringing the total to 13 out of 20. I made every effort to spike the humidity after opening.
This morning though I found that one of the eggs that had pipped yesterday was silent and upon further inspection found that it hadn't piped through the membrane completely and appeared to have suffocated. I felt terrible that I lost such a completely developed chick like that.
So out of 20 eggs
13 hatched on day 20.
1 hatched out this morning day 21.
1 suffocated and didn't make it.
5 eggs are still cooking.
Compared to my 1 for 43 effort on my first incubation run I am pleased with this outcome.
Not sure if the 5 remaining eggs will do anything but I can always hope for the best.
I got a brooder box together and quickly moved the chicks over into the brooder and removed the discarded egg shells. I took a paper towel with hot water on it and placed it in an area without any eggs and the humidity came right back up nicely. Over the course of the evening 4 more hatched out and were quickly placed with their comrades in the brooder box bringing the total to 13 out of 20. I made every effort to spike the humidity after opening.
This morning though I found that one of the eggs that had pipped yesterday was silent and upon further inspection found that it hadn't piped through the membrane completely and appeared to have suffocated. I felt terrible that I lost such a completely developed chick like that.
So out of 20 eggs
13 hatched on day 20.
1 hatched out this morning day 21.
1 suffocated and didn't make it.
5 eggs are still cooking.
Compared to my 1 for 43 effort on my first incubation run I am pleased with this outcome.
Not sure if the 5 remaining eggs will do anything but I can always hope for the best.
