Hands on hatching and help

[AmyLynn2374]

AmyLynn- I have small eggs so should I have more humidity then? The humidity is at40% right now. So, if I wanted to bring my temp up do I add a sponge with a little water?

When I did my silkie eggs, which were quite small compared to my standard I started dry like normal, but ended up having to up my humidity and run 40-45%, mostly around 45% until lockdown because the air cells were growing quicker. I used the wet sponges. I'm thinking you mean to ask if you want to bring humidity up, not temp? Using the sponge will bring the humidity up, not temp. Usually, if you are using an incubator without the temp control, adding water can lower temp slightly, one way to offset that is adding warm water. The best way to gauge if the humidity needs to be adjusted is monitoring air cells and I will add a link for you to better understand that: http://letsraisechickens.weebly.com...anuals-understanding-and-controlling-humidity

Adjusting temps on those type of bators can be a pain in the butt. I always just wiggled mine in the direction (up or down/right for up left for down) I needed and monitored it real close after.

 

[Tashaf]

Plain water I think is OK . It depends on how I feel as to when I candle . I sometimes start on the forth day and any day after that I feel like candling . With heat spikes and humidity problems you need to look at them .You want to see veins. The egg will be clear or just look the same as the day you set it . If you candled it before set that is . I candle every egg before set to make sure they are not cracked . this is a seven day egg you can see the veins and how the fluids should look

I candled my eggs tonight. And some seem to have a much darker fluid than in your picture. Does that mean they are bad?

 

[Tashaf]

My eggs are also tanish and hard to candle with just my hand and flashlight. Some look good and some have big dark area and some kinda look like they have a large air cell. I've known about the veins and dark round baby but never knew to look at the air cell.

 

[BYC910]

I candled my eggs tonight. And some seem to have a much darker fluid than in your picture. Does that mean they are bad?

No not bad some fluids will appear darker than others . The stronger the light the more you can see mine is a home made box Candler and lights them up very well . I don't mark air cells but the thread starter and most others do. Air cell growth is a measure of proper humidity if your seeing veins that's good but being new to the game you should google air cell growth . if your seeing embryo movement that's good . I run what some call a dry hatch ,That means I don't add or keep water in my incubators during incubation . I bring the humidity up to 65% when I see the first pip most of the time . Now this doesn't mean the hatch is dry . Humidity runs around 28% during incubation . and still I get some small air cells . the most important thing is stay on top of your temperature always . You will lose eggs to humidity being low or high but high heat spikes kill instantly . Again this doesn't mean a hot incubator but hot eggs. It sounds like you have some live ones so let us know how your hatch is going

 

[Tashaf]

Could someone help me with my eggs? How do I put pictures on here.

 

[dcba flock]

Could someone help me with my eggs? How do I put pictures on here.

There is a picture icon in your message box if your uploading it's the 3rd box over looks like a "picture of a mountain". Hope that helps.
Rough hatch had 7/7 leghorns pop right out healthy and happy well and then there were the BCM eggs had no idea what was inside the remaining 7 (1 stunk) they had a rough time hatching only left w/ 3 one pulled its belly button open and stuff started coming out and so it was culled and then another was lethargic this morning when I got up tried to wake it not much response, read to try to get it to take some egg yolk raw. Well it did and then had what appeared to be a seizure in my hand and died.... Ugh! Idk if it overheated or had ingested some fluid while hatching.... Hoping the 3 remaining chicks do ok one is really tiny! My next batch is due on Thanksgiving I just set them up in lockdown only 6 out of the 25 made it most were clears/ scrambled total bummer!!!

 

[Tashaf]

Why is it so dark??

 

[Tashaf]

Byc910 are you here today?

 

[aliciaplus3]

Why is it so dark??

I used a flashlight and some of mine proved difficult to see into especially the porous shells, I had a small green one left me guessing till the end.... that being said what day are you on? What does the air cell look like?

 

[Tashaf]

No clue on the air cell, day7