Help 7 egg 'bator directions aren't good i need info on lockdown

[chickenreyna]

Since its approaching lockdown. In advance please inform if any of you who have had this bator please tell me it will be ok to lift lid to add water,since every day i have to add water. &do i just leave it at the preset 38

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I haven't used it but generally speaking, the last couple of days you need to keep the humidity as high as possible.
Have you candled or weighed to insure the eggs have the correct size air cell or have lost enough or too little weight?

 

[Chicken Lady Halle]

I don't have that incubator but all you need to do is at the beginning of lockdown (around the 18th day) add a lot of water and don't open it until they all hatch. Know that its good for the chicks to stay in the incubator for up to 24 hours after hatching beacause the don't need food or water right away and the steady temperature is good for them. Don't remove them until they have fluffed out. Also you can bring the temperature down to 37-37.5.

 

[chickenreyna]

Im on day 11 and yes monitoring weight is just fine and eggs are hard to candle but i can make out that each have fine looking aircells so far on day 11. I just wanted info before day 18 hits so im not scrambling around trying to find an answer

 

[Chicken Lady Halle]

FYI eggs with air cells don't mean that they are fertilized or has a baby in it. You need to look for a very dark egg when you candle it (it shouldn't light up like a lightbulb).

If you can go on Youtube and find Appalachia's homestead with Patara, she has some really good candling videos.

 

[Crooked Chicken]

I don't have that incubator but all you need to do is at the beginning of lockdown (around the 18th day) add a lot of water and don't open it until they all hatch. Know that its good for the chicks to stay in the incubator for up to 24 hours after hatching beacause the don't need food or water right away and the steady temperature is good for them. Don't remove them until they have fluffed out. Also you can bring the temperature down to 37-37.5.

I assume that 37 to 37.5 is celsius and not farenheit??? The farenheit equivalent is 98.6.

 

[chickenreyna]

Awesome thanks

FYI eggs with air cells don't mean that they are fertilized or has a baby in it. You need to look for a very dark egg when you candle it (it shouldn't light up like a lightbulb).

If you can go on Youtube and find Appalachia's homestead with Patara, she has some really good candling videos.

thankt

FYI eggs with air cells don't mean that they are fertilized or has a baby in it. You need to look for a very dark egg when you candle it (it shouldn't light up like a lightbulb).

If you can go on Youtube and find Appalachia's homestead with Patara, she has some really good candling videos.

I will look i have watched several videos liketi have not had a problem candling white eggs but the colored ones are very difficult but i have been keeping up with the weight prior incubation too

 

[GeoGreyWolf]

i originally bought that incubator and seen how the temperature was way off. I then did research and seen the horrible results. I wish the best for you, from reviews this incubator is one of the worst it seems. I got my money back and ordered a new incubator.

 

[chickenreyna]

i originally bought that incubator and seen how the temperature was way off. I then did research and seen the horrible results. I wish the best for you, from reviews this incubator is one of the worst it seems. I got my money back and ordered a new incubator.

I knew it wasnt top of line but i got exhausted of trying to regulate humidity and temp in styrofoam cooler. One lady had one hatch our of 3 duck eggs so hoping i will hace two hatch out of five. I was on a budget

 

[Chicken Lady Halle]

I knew it wasnt top of line but i got exhausted of trying to regulate humidity and temp in styrofoam cooler. One lady had one hatch our of 3 duck eggs so hoping i will hace two hatch out of five. I was on a budget

I'm not sure what your budget is but the magicfly incubator is a very good one. That's the one I use.
https://www.amazon.com/Magicfly-Dig...1511725849&sr=8-1&keywords=magicfly+incubator