January Hatch-a-long 2018

[Cynthia12]

View attachment 1227598 I have my eggs in octagon 40, not turning for a few days since they were shipped. Turner not plugged in.

It's ok to start turning. In fact, I wouldn't let them sit more than one day. Even shipped. Me handing out my 2 cents again.

 

[gimmie birdies]

here are my goof ball eggs I had to go back to the beginning of this thread to remember when I put these eggs in, so the one one the far left light green egg I put in on the 19th, so today is lockdown on that egg (due tue). I will get it positioned. I may put it into a diff incubator, the other 2 are due on Friday. (from my own coop only ones that were fertile from young roosters, but they lasted to the end so far...) I put a batch of my own eggs in with my shipped eggs, I hope they will be fertile, I see more rooster activity.

 

[Cynthia12]

I found this one at Walmart so I’m going to try it out
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These are the ones I use, not calibrated to be perfect, but, what I do, is go by how my eggs feel. I've been hatching a while....lol..so...I know how I like them, see what this thing is showing, which is usually at 100, then I can just peek in to see if it's staying there. Make sense?

 

[Cynthia12]

I think 50% is a little high for the beginning of a hatch. I've read that around 30% is good. I'm really struggling to keep moisture in mine. Outside humidity is only 30% and it's bottoming out at 10% in my circulated air incubator. I'm having to add water like every day or every other! Just so it bumps up to around 50% then starts to come back down. I'm actually kind of worrying about how I'm going to keep high humidity once I get to lockdown!

Agree, too high. Those eggs have a lot of humidity in them to be released. I am sure a lot have noticed that their humidity goes up when those eggs are put in. I am one to use way low humidity in the beginning, especially with shipped eggs. If there are going to be saddle shaped air cells, I can only hope keeping the humidity low will keep those air cells smaller.

 

[Cynthia12]

Don't add water for a while and wait for it to evaporate out. Also opening your plug holes will make it drier. See what the humidity is inside the incubator when it's completely dry. If it's around 30% when it's dry then you'll just add water close to lockdown.

I never use the plugs. Ever.

 

[Cynthia12]

I have 9 swimming babies. Started with 13 shipped eggs. Was worried about the cold weather, cooler where they came from, even colder where they stayed over night..CO.! Warmer here than usual, so, held my breath for a while. I do have some with high cells, just have to hope those babies can make the turn and pip at the right end.

 

[Cynthia12]

Just catching up. I'll hush now.

 

[Scott214]

I’m gonna do my first turn tomorrow morning. It will be a slight turn but I haven’t yet to give the air cells more time to reattach. Now I will start turning twice a day. Morning and night and then thinking of stoping on day 17 instead. I read that will help them possibly position better. Has Anyone else tried that?

 

[chickenmama109]

im going to candle my eggs tomorrow that wil be the 7th day will i see vains

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

im going to candle my eggs tomorrow that wil be the 7th day will i see vains

Yes, you should see some good veins. Dark, colored, or speckled eggs can be tricky.