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ChristinLewin
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- Jun 25, 2020
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How’s your hatch??I am not an expert and am working on my first hatch with shipped eggs. They have not hatched yet. However, I’m going into lockdown in a day and a half approximately 10 eggs out of 15. (One yolker, 3 blood rings; don’t wanna assume all are okay tomorrow night.. not counting the three that were already questionable when I got them) Anyway, so far so good, so things I did was allow to rest blunt end up for about a day. All air cells were only a little jiggly. Have an Inkbird thermostat and three digital thermometer/hygrometer combos, one of which tells the day’s high and lows. I decided to keep them upright ... ish in the incubator, like happens at hatcheries and large cabinet incubators. I have a wedge glued to the middle of a cut up egg carton and tilt them at roughly 45 degree angles three times a day. I’ve read some scientific abstract somewhere that ideal tilt needs to be 45 (+\- 5 degrees). Anything more or less will result in a smaller hatch. Obviously a million things can happen between right now and day 21, but so far things appear on track.
One thing I didn’t do was outline the air cells in pencil as they went along. I feel it is important to inspect the air cells on shipped eggs right from the start.