Hands on hatching and help

[Renee97038]

I have a batch hatching right now and one chick is laying on its back. It struggles to get turned over. Has been this way for 12 hours now. I know I can't open the incubator to help. Has anyone had this happen before, and any good luck when they finally get turned over?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Thanks...I am having issues with humidity, when it gets to 60 the temp goes down to 97. I cant seem to keep the humidity at 60 and the temp at 100. ??

Are you adding warm water when you add it, sometimes that helps. You can use rocks in there to act as heat sinks. I've never had to, but I've seen others do it.

So all you did was move the eggs out the turner and the temp jumped up to 113 Or you tweaked the thermostat some too after removing the turner?? Good Luck!

Weird. Usually when you take the turners out it does the opposite because those turner motors give off a lot of heat themselves.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I have a batch hatching right now and one chick is laying on its back. It struggles to get turned over. Has been this way for 12 hours now. I know I can't open the incubator to help. Has anyone had this happen before, and any good luck when they finally get turned over?

It's not uncommon for them to take some time to get their feet under them, but I always open my bator and flip them back over. It's possible that it has spraddle legs, and that's why it's flipping over, but you can better assess that once you flip them back to their tummy and see if the legs are directly under them or out to the side.

 

[Renee97038]

I would open it to quickly turn it over but I have 6 pipped ones waiting to hatch and don't want to risk shrink wrapping them.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I would open it to quickly turn it over but I have 6 pipped ones waiting to hatch and don't want to risk shrink wrapping them.

Yeah, that doesn't stop me...lol That's why I keep my hatch humidity at least 70-75% during hatch.

 

[Pyxis]

I would open it to quickly turn it over but I have 6 pipped ones waiting to hatch and don't want to risk shrink wrapping them.

Yeah, that doesn't stop me...lol That's why I keep my hatch humidity at least 70-75% during hatch.

Same, I open the incubator constantly. It never causes shrink wrapping. You've come to the thread where we all open the incubator during hatch and mess around in there

 

[Blooie]

<--------- Also guilty. <sigh> I'm an equal opportunity incubator opener.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Same, I open the incubator constantly. It never causes shrink wrapping. You've come to the thread where we all open the incubator during hatch and mess around in there

Ain't that the truth!

 

[oregonkat]

I have a question regarding the temp 'spikes'. Why do the heaters in the incubators get that hot? Shouldn't they be designed to max out at say 103degs. ?

 

[Pyxis]

I have a question regarding the temp 'spikes'.  Why do the heaters in the incubators get that hot?  Shouldn't they be designed to max out at say 103degs. ?

I guess because if you were incubating in a colder area you'd need the heater to get hotter to warm the incubator up. For example one year I let my Brinsea run outside during the winter in an unheated outbuilding.

A lot of digitally controlled ones do have built in temperature stops and some even have alarms go off if the temp gets too high. But with manually controlled ones there just isn't a way to implement this.