MadChickenMama
Songster
I would personally candle just before lock down and mark the air cells.
In the incubation and hatching thread there was a bit that suggested placing the eggs with the lowest top of the air cell up as it's the most likely hatching position and let's you easily see any pips. I thought that sounded like a really good idea!
Thanks! I've positioned them all with the air cell up now since I turned off the turner. The eggs are so small that they were constantly ending up with the small end up on the edge of the turner and i was having to open the thing every hour to fix them. So now I do it myself and turn them once every 3 hours (5 time total). I'll be sure to turn them with the lowest part of the cell up on Saturday.
Aside from that I am hoping things go well. I have no for sure idea where the temp has been at. The reader on the incubator says 98.5, the digital one says 100.2 or 100.4, and the regular one I got from tractor supply says 98. Then the 3 that are under the hen feel much warmer and stay warmer longer when I candled them the other day. I tried turning the temp up .5* in the incubator yesterday and the eggs were warmer and stayed warmer for longer, but my digital one was reading 101.2.
I heard 98 or 97 was the lowest temp the eggs could be at and it would cause them to hatch late.
I checked a few today and movement is certain slower, but with hatch day 5 days away I'm not super concerned, but I still worry. Some eggs I could barely make out anything and so don't know.
The temp issue is frustrating.
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