I have questions and need help!!??

[mother of many]

I have 2 incubators a homemade styrofoam cooler and a little giant still air. Currently my homemade bator has the last 3 developing eggs from our EE out of 6 orginally, they go on lockdown Saturday the 13th. And in the still air I have 9 Jersey Giant eggs ( I candled last night. 5 look good and unsure about 3 and 1 is a dud ) but they are only on Day 7. I am not entirely confident my homemade bator will hold the higher humidity for my EE eggs but I know for sure the LG will. My question is should I switch all the eggs around and put the Jersey eggs in the homemade and my EE eggs in the LG for the lockdown and hatch days? Or could I just put the EE eggs in with the Jersey eggs in the LG? I have been running the dry method with them and I was wondering if it would be okay to have a higher humidity on the Jersey eggs for a couple days even though they are only on a different day? I want them all to survive so I dont want to jeopardize the hatch in any way. Can anybody help me or shed some light on this for me before lockdown? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I have 2 incubators a homemade styrofoam cooler and a little giant still air. Currently my homemade bator has the last 3 developing eggs from our EE out of 6 orginally, they go on lockdown Saturday the 13th. And in the still air I have 9 Jersey Giant eggs ( I candled last night. 5 look good and unsure about 3 and 1 is a dud ) but they are only on Day 7. I am not entirely confident my homemade bator will hold the higher humidity for my EE eggs but I know for sure the LG will. My question is should I switch all the eggs around and put the Jersey eggs in the homemade and my EE eggs in the LG for the lockdown and hatch days? Or could I just put the EE eggs in with the Jersey eggs in the LG? I have been running the dry method with them and I was wondering if it would be okay to have a higher humidity on the Jersey eggs for a couple days even though they are only on a different day? I want them all to survive so I dont want to jeopardize the hatch in any way. Can anybody help me or shed some light on this for me before lockdown? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Before I give my opinion I have a question. Why don't you just use the home made one as a straight incubator and the lg as a hatcher?

Personally if there is room I'd just move them all into the cooler bator and at lockdown I'd pull the ones ready for lockdown and put them in the lg with the higher humidity. If there's not enough room in there, then yes, I would switch them around when you are ready to go into lockdown and put the ones still incubating in the cooler bator and the ones to hatch in the lg.

 

[mother of many]

Thank you for your advice. Okay so I revamped my cooler bator and put the Jersey eggs in it. I put a fan in the top, the temp on top of the eggs should be 99.5° or 100.5°?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Thank you for your advice.

Okay so I revamped my cooler bator and put the Jersey eggs in it. I put a fan in the top, the temp on top of the eggs should be 99.5° or 100.5°?

Forced air (fan) is 99.5F