Help with my Brinsea

[pen1124]

Ok guys, so i have a small Brinsea Advanced which auto truns my 7 duck eggs....Anyways, my duckies started to hatch yesterday night

and i went into lockdown friday morning. BUt my delema is that even though the eggs have cracks in them, theyre not out of the egg, and the well is started to get a little low, so what should i do because i know im not supposed to open it Ahhh

i don't know what to do. SO far 4 out of the seven started to hatch lets hope all 7 do

 

[madamwlf]

You should be fine to open it real quick and add water. Those small Brinsea heat back up real quick and the humidity becomes stable again quick too.

 

[pen1124]

wait so the chicks membrane wont be like shrinkwrap?

 

[madamwlf]

With larger incubators, yes but the smaller ones recover so much quicker. I use to have the small 7-egg Brinsea.

 

[gryeyes]

However, once the eggs start hatching, the humidity will spike way up, naturally. A lot of moisture is released from the hatching eggs. So, unless you have an hygrometer indicating a low humidity, I wouldn't open the 'bator to add water during the hatching period.

(Although that particular incubator DOES recover heat AND humidity really quickly!)