How to improve hatch rates for shipped eggs

[SpotTheCat]

found this. it's a thermometer and hygrometer
https://www.amazon.co.uk/ThermoPro-...t=&hvlocphy=1007041&hvtargid=pla-832784561460

I think any will work as long as you calibrate them (Also make sure it will fit in your incubator)

 

[PippinTheChicken]

I think any will work as long as you calibrate them (Also make sure it will fit in your incubator)

sorry, calibrate means.... what must I do to calibrate it???

 

[PippinTheChicken]

new section... what do i put here?

 

[JustCallMeMaple]

calibrate is checking and ensuring that it's reading properly before use. Say outside it's 32c outside and you check and yours reads 30c that's a HUGE issue if you aren't aware that the thermometer reads off slightly.

 

[JustCallMeMaple]

Candling you can just go in a room that's dark turn a flashlight on and check the egg. It should have veins and the next check it should have more and you will start to see the actual chick develop. I've candled MANY eggs (growing up parents bred cockatiels and cockatoos though the cockatoos were not as prolific).

 

[PippinTheChicken]

Candling you can just go in a room that's dark turn a flashlight on and check the egg. It should have veins and the next check it should have more and you will start to see the actual chick develop. I've candled MANY eggs (growing up parents bred cockatiels and cockatoos though the cockatoos were not as prolific).

I've candled eggs before but thank you!

 

[PippinTheChicken]

calibrate is checking and ensuring that it's reading properly before use. Say outside it's 32c outside and you check and yours reads 30c that's a HUGE issue if you aren't aware that the thermometer reads off slightly.

oh okay

 

[SpotTheCat]

sorry, calibrate means.... what must I do to calibrate it???

Look it up its too complicated (doing it isn’t that complicated) for me to explain and I let my brother do it for me, so I don’t actually know how to do it

 

[PippinTheChicken]

thanks everyone

 

[PippinTheChicken]

anything I need to do DURING incubation to keep hatch rates up?