Incubators Anonymous

[newtwinmom]

Who keeps their humidity a touch higher for shipped eggs? Day 14 and the air cells are ginormous but I have huge fluid pockets at the bottoms too! What to do?

Here's the story: I have 12 Lav Am eggs on day 14. My last hatch (dry-humidity read 10ish% most of the time) I weighed eggs and had some loose 20%, most hatch on day 19-20, and four lockdown loses. So I dropped the thermostat 0.1 degree C and bumped up the humidity to 20-30%. Now on day 14, the air cells are nearly half the egg on the smaller eggs but I also have huge pockets of fluid in the pointy end of each egg. The extra fluid makes me worried for sticky and drowned chicks which was a problem for me early this year.

 

[casba]

Hi please can someone help my call duck eggs are on day 29 all still movingin eggs when should I panic

 

[chickensnbees]

Hi please can someone help my call duck eggs are on day 29 all still movingin eggs when should I panic

Have they pipped internally yet?

 

[dutchbunny83]

I am SO excited for the eggs I have being shipped to me today, it's going to be a long 3 weeks!

 

[casba]

Hi some have but not all of them

 

[gimmie birdies]

these eggs went 2 weeks in an incubator, and last week will be under this hen, as they hatch I will take away chicks so the hen keeps sitting
then she can hatch out these eggs

I got from a lady I gave a rooster to. he passed on yesterday.

I also put in a couple of my own eggs in an incubator until they go under the hen next week.

 

[randerson846]

I just got a red sex link rooster recently and i cant wait until he starts to do his thing, and i get some fertilized eggs and can put them in my incubator, instaead of having to pay for them

 

[ki4got]

Who keeps their humidity a touch higher for shipped eggs? Day 14 and the air cells are ginormous but I have huge fluid pockets at the bottoms too! What to do?

Here's the story: I have 12 Lav Am eggs on day 14. My last hatch (dry-humidity read 10ish% most of the time) I weighed eggs and had some loose 20%, most hatch on day 19-20, and four lockdown loses. So I dropped the thermostat 0.1 degree C and bumped up the humidity to 20-30%. Now on day 14, the air cells are nearly half the egg on the smaller eggs but I also have huge pockets of fluid in the pointy end of each egg. The extra fluid makes me worried for sticky and drowned chicks which was a problem for me early this year.

don't worry about the air cells on shipped eggs. treat them the same as you do homegrown. it's an illusion because the membrane has separated from the shell some due to shipping stresses.

 

[dutchbunny83]

I just got a red sex link rooster recently and i cant wait until he starts to do his thing, and i get some fertilized eggs and can put them in my incubator, instaead of having to pay for them

Cool!

The babies won't be sex links though, if you didn't already know that, so can't tell gender at birth.
But good to be getting your own chicks!
I don't keep roosters in town so all my eggs are mail order (and not cheap!)

 

[newtwinmom]

don't worry about the air cells on shipped eggs. treat them the same as you do homegrown. it's an illusion because the membrane has separated from the shell some due to shipping stresses.

Alrighty then! Back down goes the humidity. What do you make of the massive fluid pockets?