Would it be possible to isolate the hen sitting on the nest so that the others can't disturb her? If you were able to do that, I think I would return the eggs to her.
I would not return the eggs to her.
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Would it be possible to isolate the hen sitting on the nest so that the others can't disturb her? If you were able to do that, I think I would return the eggs to her.
She has made her nest in a planter that is difficult to fence in. We have thought about trying to fence her in so that the other couldn't bother her, but she picked a weird spot for her nest and it tricky to isolate her
She may reject them..
Temp is not ok, she has no fan, so it needs to be higher around 101-102.
Humidity needs to be around 50 -55 ONLY because she has no clue of the due dates of each egg and from what I understand there are many eggs in there with different due dates.
If you can fence her in I think that's your best bet.
I'm almost afraid to give you too much advice on this one and hope Lacrystol will be around over whatever time this takes. I don't keep my primary incubator, meaning pre-lockdown, with RH that high. I keep that one at 45%. I keep my lockdown incubator at 68%. What's giving me pause about advice is the dipping part because it can vary so much, and I know what they should look like at each stage. I've had eggs even this year that I KNEW to be on day 23, yet some looked more like day 26, and some looked like day 18. You get the idea. I had one this year hatch on its own, no help, on day 24, just maybe 12 hours after I had put it in lockdown, and I had a few that didn't hatch until day 28 and still needed help doing it. It's unfortunately not an exact science and takes a lot of attention to make sure you don't lose any through your own mistakes. I can't remember how I even kept up with all of it when I was working outside the house part-time.So I have made a second incuabtor so that I can adjust for hatching, I'm letting it get up to temp and am going to try canceling white my next turning anything to looks like they have dipped I will put in the incubator where I don't turn them is that right? I will keep my incubator at 101 and a humidity of 50 to 55 and my hatching incuabtor at 98 99 and a high humidity of like 65 to 70. Any subsections with this set up please let me know. She is a fist time mom, I had no plans of having babies until one day I worked a lot and didn't pick all the eggs and found that in 3 days my girls laird enough in one nest for her to start sitting on them. She is so sad with out the baby she hatched I wish I could give her her babies back, but I don't want them to die
So I have made a second incuabtor so that I can adjust for hatching, I'm letting it get up to temp and am going to try canceling white my next turning anything to looks like they have dipped I will put in the incubator where I don't turn them is that right? I will keep my incubator at 101 and a humidity of 50 to 55 and my hatching incuabtor at 98 99 and a high humidity of like 65 to 70. Any subsections with this set up please let me know. She is a fist time mom, I had no plans of having babies until one day I worked a lot and didn't pick all the eggs and found that in 3 days my girls laird enough in one nest for her to start sitting on them. She is so sad with out the baby she hatched I wish I could give her her babies back, but I don't want them to die
If you can fence her in I think that's your best bet.