- Sep 28, 2011
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Hi ,This is my first time using an incubator and I have about 40 eggs in one now that are within a week or so of each other in development as my 2 other Turkey hens kept laying eggs in my broody turkey hens nest. She has abandoned the nest after about 31 days and she hatched out one poult. I candled all the eggs and all the ones that I put in the incubator had vein development. There were a few that were beyond that stage and looked dark 3/4 of the egg except where a huge air sack is.
My question is how can I regulate the humidity. It is pretty humid here in the pacific NW. The incubator is a Farm innovators with a circulating air fan and an auto. turner. The temp on the thermometers I have inside stays right about 99.5 and 100 but the humidity was around 40% inside so I added a little water to the water channel's but now its at about 60%. The eggs have been in the incubator about 48 hours now.
Did I kill them by doing that?
Since the poult's are at different stages I don't expect a good viable hatch rate, but would like to get some live ones.
So what should I do? Take out the eggs that were farther along so I can take out the turner when it gets close and just turn the ones that are closer together in their hatching stages, and not turn the eggs that position themselves?
Or just take out the eggs that looked fully formed that probably are not alive anyway because they didn't hatch when the other poult did 3 days ago (there were only a couple of those)?
ALSO , Do you all wash your eggs before you put them into the incubator? After I had the turkey eggs in the incubator I read some fine print inthe instructions that I hadn't seen before that said to wash the eggs with any egg wash product on the market.
My question is how can I regulate the humidity. It is pretty humid here in the pacific NW. The incubator is a Farm innovators with a circulating air fan and an auto. turner. The temp on the thermometers I have inside stays right about 99.5 and 100 but the humidity was around 40% inside so I added a little water to the water channel's but now its at about 60%. The eggs have been in the incubator about 48 hours now.
Did I kill them by doing that?
Since the poult's are at different stages I don't expect a good viable hatch rate, but would like to get some live ones.
So what should I do? Take out the eggs that were farther along so I can take out the turner when it gets close and just turn the ones that are closer together in their hatching stages, and not turn the eggs that position themselves?
Or just take out the eggs that looked fully formed that probably are not alive anyway because they didn't hatch when the other poult did 3 days ago (there were only a couple of those)?
ALSO , Do you all wash your eggs before you put them into the incubator? After I had the turkey eggs in the incubator I read some fine print inthe instructions that I hadn't seen before that said to wash the eggs with any egg wash product on the market.