Is This Normal?

Air cell is more normal than the chick development . A sixteen day egg should be much more developed than that . Your hand turning . Keep turning that one until the others pip. Stop turning it then . Raise the humidity on either day eighteen or nineteen . The air cell is large enough the higher humidity shouldn't hurt the egg . Hope it hatches for you . I feel however that its more likely not to hatch than to hatch . :fl hope I'm wrong though . Good luck .
 
Air cell is more normal than the chick development . A sixteen day egg should be much more developed than that . Your hand turning . Keep turning that one until the others pip. Stop turning it then . Raise the humidity on either day eighteen or nineteen . The air cell is large enough the higher humidity shouldn't hurt the egg . Hope it hatches for you . I feel however that its more likely not to hatch than to hatch . :fl hope I'm wrong though . Good luck .

Gotcha. Yeah, we're also going to be moving the whole shebang into the bedroom, next to my side of the bed, so I can keep a better eye on the situation.
 
Mind if I ask what temperature you have been running your incubator at ? And what was the temperature was at the top of the eggs ? Also forced air or still air incubator ?
forced air it runs at 38.1 but sometimes it goes to 38.3 no more than that
 
Gotcha. Yeah, we're also going to be moving the whole shebang into the bedroom, next to my side of the bed, so I can keep a better eye on the situation.
:lau I would too . I will tell you this Temperature should be taken and maintained at the top of the egg . I can tell that this egg sets lower in the incubator than the others . And believe it or not because the temperature being taken at the top of the largest egg. Eggs setting lower than the others does make a difference in the time it takes them to develop. It is more noticeable in a still air hand turned incubation than in a forced air upright auto turner . This could be the reason for your slow developer or it could be something else . But for a first incubation you have done good getting them to this point.
 
:lau I would too . I will tell you this Temperature should be taken and maintained at the top of the egg . I can tell that this egg sets lower in the incubator than the others . And believe it or not because the temperature being taken at the top of the largest egg. Eggs setting lower than the others does make a difference in the time it takes them to develop. It is more noticeable in a still air hand turned incubation than in a forced air upright auto turner . This could be the reason for your slow developer or it could be something else . But for a first incubation you have done good getting them to this point.

This was a forced air incubator that came with an auto turner, that the AT went kaput within the first 24 hours.... and this was our 3rd incubator on this batch! Definitely having bad luck with incubators.... grrrrr..... so, we're going to build a bator... but just need to get through this hatch!!!

Setting lower makes a lot of sense.... definitely gonna let the tinys have a couple of days extra.
 
forced air it runs at 38.1 but sometimes it goes to 38.3 no more than that
Your running just a touch high not to bad if your thermometer is accurate . If this temperature is at the top of the eggs . development should be fairly normal. Temperature is so important . It is critical that temperature at egg top level be as close to perfect as you can get it . I'll be watching for hatch results to see how these hatches go . Here's hoping your hatch rate is awesome :fl Good luck
 

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