Incubators Anonymous

[mikkles]

Oops I just bought another incubator on ebay. I just couldn't help myself!

what'd ya get?!

 

[Runawaylobster]

These leghorn eggs are enormous, i put them in lockdown yesterday. I am used to seeing the chick almost entirely fill the egg except for the air space by day 18. I guess that may be a side effect of always hatching marans and not being able to see inside very well but still.

Anyhow everything about these leghorns is huge, the air cell is huge the shell is huge and there still seems an awful lot of albumen in the egg and not enough chick, even though they have been incubated the proper amount of time.. kinda weird i can't imagine how those little chicks will absorb all the liquid before they hatch!!!!! They are very active, moving all around so i know they are healthy...

wondering if someone with lots of leghorn experience could expand on this observation?...

 

[gimmie birdies]

I dry hatch and this works for me-I check eggs before lock down, and if I see too much albumen in the egg I wait on my lockdown because they don't need more moisture until they absorb what they have. when they need more moisture in the bator is when they are pipping. If they got shrink wrapped it is because opening and closing of the bator during pipping.

 

[mikkles]

ok incubating experts! so I'm about to go into lockdown....the humidity in my house is at least 80%...way over that outside! (who knew MN was a tropical state!?) would you still add water to the incubator???

 

[Runawaylobster]

I dry hatch and this works for me-I check eggs before lock down, and if I see too much albumen in the egg I wait on my lockdown because they don't need more moisture until they absorb what they have. when they need more moisture in the bator is when they are pipping. If they got shrink wrapped it is because opening and closing of the bator during pipping.

so you wait until they pip to add the extra water and sponges? i've had them with no water in the bator for several days now but i did add more yesterday when i locked them down. I have other eggs in there too, some Lav orps and a bunch of marans so these guys look ready to go.. i did remember reading somewhere that the larger the egg the later the hatch???

 

[Runawaylobster]

ok incubating experts!

so I'm about to go into lockdown....the humidity in my house is at least 80%...way over that outside! (who knew MN was a tropical state!?) would you still add water to the incubator???

i run mine at 60% rh for hatch, because your temp in the bator is higher than the house temp the relative humidity may be completely different to what you are expecting, i'd just
see how it goes and then adjust the amount of water.. i'm in south florida so we too have to deal with alot of humidity but it really doesn't seem to
affect the hatch RH setting. It does affect the regular incubating RH.. I can get 35% with no water in there sometimes.

 

[DMRippy]

These leghorn eggs are enormous,  i put them in lockdown yesterday.    I am used to seeing the chick almost entirely fill the egg except for the air space by day 18.  I guess that may be a side effect of always hatching marans and not being able to see inside very well but still.

Anyhow everything about these leghorns is huge, the air cell is huge the shell is huge and there still seems an awful lot of albumen in the egg and not enough chick, even though they have been incubated the proper amount of time..  kinda weird i can't imagine how those little chicks will absorb all the liquid before they hatch!!!!!  They are very active, moving all around so i know they are healthy... 

wondering if someone with lots of leghorn experience could expand on this observation?... 

nope you said it so eloquently. hehe. good luck!

 

[Arielle]

Oops I just bought another incubator on ebay. I just couldn't help myself!

 

[Arielle]

ok incubating experts!

so I'm about to go into lockdown....the humidity in my house is at least 80%...way over that outside! (who knew MN was a tropical state!?) would you still add water to the incubator???

What is the humidity in the incubator??


If I think the air cell is too small I use AC to get it on target.

THen I don't up the RH until external pips.

SOme of mine hatch in the hatcher with no increase in humidity.

 

[ozexpat]

What is the humidity in the incubator??


If I think the air cell is too small I use AC to get it on target.

THen I don't up the RH until external pips.

SOme of mine hatch in the hatcher with no increase in humidity.

in the philippines where my bators run 47-55% all hatch I do not add water at all. I rely on humidity from the pipping chicks but i do not open the bator for 24 hrs minumum



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