The past 2 incubations I've done have confused me. I'm hoping I can be enlightened.
Last 2 incubations I set were around 46 eggs each in my bators.
I've been trying out dry incubation and I thought I was getting decent hatches.
However, this last hatch was disapointing. I only candle once, and thats at day 12-14. 36 of the eggs were alive and well and looking great. I was super excited thinking I'd get a high hatch rate.
But hatch date came along and 11 hatched and 2 had pipped and died and another zipped and died. I opened some of the eggs to see what happened and it looked like alot of them died just few days before hatch. They looked large and squished in there. I believe that is why the pipped and zipped ones died because they couldn't move and rotate in the egg to get out.
Now to my question, does low humidity make the air cell small causing the chick to grow larger than it should?
If this isn't the case, what esle should I do?
Thanks
Last 2 incubations I set were around 46 eggs each in my bators.
I've been trying out dry incubation and I thought I was getting decent hatches.
However, this last hatch was disapointing. I only candle once, and thats at day 12-14. 36 of the eggs were alive and well and looking great. I was super excited thinking I'd get a high hatch rate.
But hatch date came along and 11 hatched and 2 had pipped and died and another zipped and died. I opened some of the eggs to see what happened and it looked like alot of them died just few days before hatch. They looked large and squished in there. I believe that is why the pipped and zipped ones died because they couldn't move and rotate in the egg to get out.
Now to my question, does low humidity make the air cell small causing the chick to grow larger than it should?
If this isn't the case, what esle should I do?
Thanks