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Chirping
The title sums it up nicely.
I inherited 2 geese. Gertrude started laying eggs. I asked the old owner. She said incubate them. Thats it.
So i went on Amazon grabbed an incubator and started tossing eggs in. Every other day another egg. Marked none. Dated nothing. Went by the manufacturers booklet. Then googled and found you guys.
I read the articles and I adjusted as I learned. But that was 15 days in. I've been at 75% 99 degrees. (The book said cook em at 100&80% that's it all the way through no Celsius so idk) Humidity was all over the place for the 15 ish days. I tossed in a couple stand alone hydrometers and the incubator display is way way off. So now i ignore it and know the actual conditions in there.
I knew at least 2 were 26 days in.I timed lockdown by looking at my incubator delivery date. But the rest were a guess. I have 4 total rolling a bit. I sat on my hands and obeyed lockdown but it has been 5 days and everything I read indicated they probably didn't make it through the torture (one is even cracked and waxed together) so I searched all night (ive decided to keep my searches in here. Its all over the place in google land) and saw it was safe (ish) as long as no external pip. So I candled carefully and one has an internal pip. But I don't hear peeps or tapping and the moving is easy to miss it's so little.
That was at 9 my time. It's 2 am now. So I'm writing this because I'm clearly never sleeping again lol.
Do I make a hole? Or sit on my hands again? I have no idea when it pipped, just when I saw it. He's moving in there. But barely from out here.
Thanks. Even if this is an impossible to answer, waaay too long post. This place has been a fantastic crash course. I really appreciate the care folks take writing all these articles and the time and experience you share with people trying to figure everything out.
I inherited 2 geese. Gertrude started laying eggs. I asked the old owner. She said incubate them. Thats it.
So i went on Amazon grabbed an incubator and started tossing eggs in. Every other day another egg. Marked none. Dated nothing. Went by the manufacturers booklet. Then googled and found you guys.
I read the articles and I adjusted as I learned. But that was 15 days in. I've been at 75% 99 degrees. (The book said cook em at 100&80% that's it all the way through no Celsius so idk) Humidity was all over the place for the 15 ish days. I tossed in a couple stand alone hydrometers and the incubator display is way way off. So now i ignore it and know the actual conditions in there.
I knew at least 2 were 26 days in.I timed lockdown by looking at my incubator delivery date. But the rest were a guess. I have 4 total rolling a bit. I sat on my hands and obeyed lockdown but it has been 5 days and everything I read indicated they probably didn't make it through the torture (one is even cracked and waxed together) so I searched all night (ive decided to keep my searches in here. Its all over the place in google land) and saw it was safe (ish) as long as no external pip. So I candled carefully and one has an internal pip. But I don't hear peeps or tapping and the moving is easy to miss it's so little.
That was at 9 my time. It's 2 am now. So I'm writing this because I'm clearly never sleeping again lol.
Do I make a hole? Or sit on my hands again? I have no idea when it pipped, just when I saw it. He's moving in there. But barely from out here.
Thanks. Even if this is an impossible to answer, waaay too long post. This place has been a fantastic crash course. I really appreciate the care folks take writing all these articles and the time and experience you share with people trying to figure everything out.
Have you already read Pyxis's 
Here we go again 
