Jan./Feb. 2014 hatch a long

[Heidisgran]

How do I know of I have good humidity if I don't have a humidity checker?

if your locking down keep a couple of blobs of wet paper towel in the bater

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote: every egg I expect to hatch at lock down...hatch

 

[Heidisgran]

Anyone know how loud a baby chick in the shell could sound?

it varies some blow the top off the incubator and others you can only hear if you hold it to your ear lol

 

[lismarc]

No. I monitor development & lockdown when I see internal pips or hear peeping. The ones that I have left in lockdown way before they were ready tend to end up too fat or stuck to the shell & can't turn to pip & zip properly.

uh oh.. I put my eggs on lock down last night (day 20) some looked ready but no internal pip. some didn't look quite ready. I was freaking out cuz I forgot to put on lockdown on the 19th day. What do I do now? Day 21 and I got nothing. I haven't lifted the lid at all today. Ya'll got me SCARED that I messed up. Even the ones that looked ready haven't done the external pip.

WHAT DO I DO? just leave them alone? take the water out? Yikes, I'm freaking out a little right now.

 

[JDchicks]

every egg I expect to hatch at lock down...hatch

Sorry, didn't mean to offend. I was just stating what worked for me.

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote: listen....your getting a lot of info from people that do things different than what is suggested...they may have some experience and do things according to their personal experience but in general...

at lock down raise the humidity and lock down the incubator ( don't open it) until after they hatch...if you think your going to need to add water try to place a piece of sponge beneath a vent hole and use a straw to wet the sponge through the vent...

if your new to hatching and don't know from your own experience what to expect just follow the guidelines very closely

it is nerve racking....just try to breath and let the little chick do what it needs to do

 

[Farmer Viola]

uh oh.. I put my eggs on lock down last night (day 20) some looked ready but no internal pip. some didn't look quite ready. I was freaking out cuz I forgot to put on lockdown on the 19th day. What do I do now? Day 21 and I got nothing. I haven't lifted the lid at all today. Ya'll got me SCARED that I messed up. Even the ones that looked ready haven't done the external pip.

WHAT DO I DO? just leave them alone? take the water out? Yikes, I'm freaking out a little right now.

breathe! it's going to be okay
so you have zero pips yet? I would open it up and candle them, that's just me.
You can leave them in the incubator and move them as little as possible, candle inside the incubator.
I enforce lockdown (no opening) once I have confirmed that there is an internal pip

edit: listen to heidisgran!

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote: I'm not offended...
she was wanting to see them wiggling...usually it's more difficult if the egg is confined

 

[JDchicks]

I'm not offended...
she was wanting to see them wiggling...usually it's more difficult if the egg is confined

That is very true. I can not see mine wiggle at all.

 

[Heidisgran]

Quote:

newbies stick to basics