BluebirdHomestead
Crowing
Hello all!
My eggs ship on Monday and this will be my first time incubating anything. I’d love to layout my current plan for all of you more experienced than me. Please let me know what you’d do differently or where I’ve gone wrong.
I have an incuview incubator. Going to set it up tonight or tomorrow and make sure I get my temp and humidity right just as a test. The night before the eggs arrive, I’ll fire it back up so it’s stable. I also ordered a separate hygrometer/thermometer and will do that salt test thing to make sure it’s accurate. I also have a small scale to weigh eggs.
I plan to run the incubator at 99.5°F and 55% humidity from day 1-18 and same temp but closer to 65% humidity for lock down. Thoughts on my humidity? I am at elevation (almost 5000ft) and have heard to go a little more humid than you would at sea level but I’ve read mixed reviews of that. Some people are going way dryer and having success. To get a bearing on my humidity I plan on weighing the eggs before setting and periodically weighing them to make sure they are losing the right amount of weight (which would indicate air cells being proper). Some will be Marans eggs and I may not even bother candling those and just go by weight. The rest will be blue and olive so I’ll be candling those. I’ll attempt to candle all upon arrival to check out the air cells and see if I’m battling saddles or detachment. I’ve read to start all shipped eggs upright instead of laying down and not to turn them the first couple days. Is that so? I was thinking of letting them settle fat end up on the counter for 12 hours after arrival and them having them fat end up in egg cartons inside the incubator for the first two days. Then can I lay them on their side and let the auto turner do it’s work assuming the air cells aren’t horrid?
I need to research when to candle for clears, blood rings, etc more.
Anyone who read all this - thank you!!! Any tips appreciated.
My eggs ship on Monday and this will be my first time incubating anything. I’d love to layout my current plan for all of you more experienced than me. Please let me know what you’d do differently or where I’ve gone wrong.
I have an incuview incubator. Going to set it up tonight or tomorrow and make sure I get my temp and humidity right just as a test. The night before the eggs arrive, I’ll fire it back up so it’s stable. I also ordered a separate hygrometer/thermometer and will do that salt test thing to make sure it’s accurate. I also have a small scale to weigh eggs.
I plan to run the incubator at 99.5°F and 55% humidity from day 1-18 and same temp but closer to 65% humidity for lock down. Thoughts on my humidity? I am at elevation (almost 5000ft) and have heard to go a little more humid than you would at sea level but I’ve read mixed reviews of that. Some people are going way dryer and having success. To get a bearing on my humidity I plan on weighing the eggs before setting and periodically weighing them to make sure they are losing the right amount of weight (which would indicate air cells being proper). Some will be Marans eggs and I may not even bother candling those and just go by weight. The rest will be blue and olive so I’ll be candling those. I’ll attempt to candle all upon arrival to check out the air cells and see if I’m battling saddles or detachment. I’ve read to start all shipped eggs upright instead of laying down and not to turn them the first couple days. Is that so? I was thinking of letting them settle fat end up on the counter for 12 hours after arrival and them having them fat end up in egg cartons inside the incubator for the first two days. Then can I lay them on their side and let the auto turner do it’s work assuming the air cells aren’t horrid?
I need to research when to candle for clears, blood rings, etc more.
Anyone who read all this - thank you!!! Any tips appreciated.
I tried to say small side down and big side up at the same time. Yes, big side UP!
I wouldn’t know what to do if the airsack is floating, maybe leave it at 55-65degrees ish for a little while with big side up and no turning? From what I understand it’s pretty rare, so if it happens I would store it in a cool closet then ask on here what to do. I couldn’t tell you LOL!
