HELP! Hatched! PICS...A little advise please! was: My first PIP EVER!!

[pnp4kidz]

My humidity is a problem anyway, I have the wells in the bottom all filled, AND I've had to put a sponge in to keep it up to the 50% all during the incubation... and that sponge was dry completely by the next evening!!!
I soak the sponge completely, then microwave it for a few seconds to get it hot... so as not to lower the temp in the bator..
the open only the clear viewing window to put it in on one side...

Now, during the hatch, I added a second sponge... and both are bone dry by next day! the humidity is at the highest 70 to 72%, then drifts down to 50"s or 60"s by next night when sponges are both dry.

I had to fill the wells every other day too!
Not sure why, but know we are very low humidity here in N. CA...

anyway, four more hatched overnight, and they seem to be healthy! I snatched them out, as they were definately hopping in the turner, and I fear for toes... one got his head under the mechanism that rotates to turn ! argh...
I have 9 more potentials.. no pips on those but one... so I'm just gonna go with what I am doing... hope it works still...

how many days more before I remove the 'old' eggs, and then just have the last batch?

I would NOT have done this myself....
the only reason I have two batches is that batch number one was so scrambled and out of the 26 shipped, we were able to put 19 in the bator, and then lost 3 of those to cracks anyway... so 16 are left in there, and so far only 7 hatched...
sooooooo, the shipper sent me a dozen to make up for the breakage... and postage due... argh...

Good news is that on THOSE second ones I SAW the embryos wiggling! so cool!!!! so those are viable I guess... unless I've killed them now... sigh...

 

[gabrielle1976]

Turn of the turner befor you come back to a beheaded chick ..

 

[pnp4kidz]

I'll call home and see if my daughter can figure out how...
I guess she can unplug it...
the other 'batch' is due to come out of the turner on Tuesday anyway, so, they ought to be ok...right?

how long do I need to watch the remaining 9 eggs to see if they pip?
they were set in the bator three weeks ago friday morning at 6 am.... so they ought to either hatch or 'not' by tonight?

 

[babsboys]

That is very cool I had one hatch today too! Can you tell me how to post pictures?

 

[gabrielle1976]

Most people leave eggs in for an extra few days up to like 25 days or so but I think somoene else may have better advice on that.

 

[pnp4kidz]

to post pics you first go to the upper blue line with words in it, like Index, User list, etc... and over to the righ tis 'uploads'.
click that
then, you 'browse' your computer and upload one pic at a time,
then when you open a post, like this one,
you have two pages open, one is this one, the other you click uploads again, then at the bottom right you click "my uploads" and it will show you your pics here, and have a link at the bottom you can copy to paste into your post...
does that make sense???