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Oh, Aaa----meeee. Some-----body....Yep, another dumb question. Day 15. Most of eggs are dark now, but I can still see veins and movement in all 8 of them.But some of the air sacs are looking pretty doggone big to me, not that I have a ton of experience in these matters..... I've kept the humidity fairly low (I think the most it ever got up to was like 50) but I've been more comfortable in that 35-40 range because I read somewhere that with detached air cells you stand a better chance of them reattaching if the humidity isn't real high all the time, you don't turn them for a couple of days, and they are kept upright in the incubator rather than laying flat. I've done all that.
Anyway, like I said today is Day 15, and I wondered if raising the humidity up a bit at this point might slow that evaporation down a bit so the chicks don't end up getting shrink wrapped because of air cells that were too big. Or is it kinda too little too late at this point? Or do I need to re-read your article again because I missed something - I ain't the brightest crayon in the box here.
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If your air cells, on average, are big like the day 18 line, I'd go ahead and start raising humidity to slow them down. It's a great question!
Chick's are usually out w/in 24 hours, but the duck people all say ducks can take up to 48. If there are prominent veins there is nothing you can do at this point w/out high risk of causing a bleed out. No matter how many hours-duck or chick- those veins need to retract, and if that isn't done, they aren't ready.
I fill my water wells and use a couple sponges atop the screen of the bator at egg level.
We actually had 18 shipped eggs. 2 of which started and stopped w/in 24 hours. Didn't get any farther than the "blood Island" developing. One never had development and the other I didn't think had any development but last candle it looked like it to had a red circle like the blood island guys. But in all 14 developing is excellent in my book. Now if they all make it to lockdown and hatch that would be awesome.
I hope they keep going strong for you!
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