How to catch internal pip if I am in lockdown

[jfays]

How do I check for an internal pip if I am in lockdown? I know you candle the egg to see if there is a beak in the air cell but aren't you not suppose to open the incubator and mess with the egg during lockdown? I am not day 19 and I am just curious.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

For me personally lockdown means lockdown and the incubator is not opened. The only way to check for internal pip would be to open the incubator and candle. Opening would mean losing the high humidity you have built up. I find it best not to mess with eggs and let nature take its course.

Best to sit on those hands and wait

Good luck with your hatch

 

[jfays]

For me personally lockdown means lockdown and the incubator is not opened. The only way to check for internal pip would be to open the incubator and candle. Opening would mean losing the high humidity you have built up. I find it best not to mess with eggs and let nature take its course.

Best to sit on those hands and wait

Good luck with your hatch

Thanks! Thats what I figured and what I'm going to do! It took a long time to get the right humidity so I better not open it!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

How do I check for an internal pip if I am in lockdown? I know you candle the egg to see if there is a beak in the air cell but aren't you not suppose to open the incubator and mess with the egg during lockdown? I am not day 19 and I am just curious.

Depends on who are talking too. If you are talking to a strict hands off after lockdown hatcher, then yes, you are right. Not everyone has a conservative style of hatching though. I agree that at day 18-21 there is no reason to be candling the eggs. Unless most of your eggs are hatched and there are no more pippers. Those days they should be left alone to do their thing. However.....I am not a hands off hatcher and I do open my bator if I need to during lockdown, (main reason being to add water to a sponge or adjust something), and I open my bator during hatch to remove chicks, shells and to wet sponges and if needs be assist or check on a pipper. (With very successful hatching.)

So while I would answer with a "you don't check for internal pips during days 18-21, unless there is a problem, I would also add, if there is a need to open the incubator you do it.

 

[WVduckchick]

I have a Mini Mag Lite that I candle with. I put new batteries in it while my ducks were in lockdown. If I shined the light just at the air cell through one window, and looked through an opposite window, I could see inside the egg without opening the lid! It was cool.