I came into work today, and all was silent as I entered the room. "Well, this is good," I thought, "if the humidity dropped over the weekend, at least no one pipped and got stuck." Sure enough, I opened the bator to find the humidity waaaaaaaaaayyyy to low for lockdown, and two silent, still and completely pip free eggs inside. Feeling relieved, I then start filling the water wells, and resoaking the sponge using aquarium tubing.
About 30 min later, I checked the bator and find that my humidity is now much, much to high, closer to 75%. I know some people hatch at that, but I more or less dry incubate, and I've never done lockdown over 65%. So now I had to decide- to either risk my unpipped eggs drowing when they interally pipped (something I'm guessing they haven't done as they weren't moving, or chirping), or risk shrink wrapping as I opened the bator to try and get the humidity back down. Since I didn't have pips, I decided to go ahead and risk the shrink wrapping, and I spent the better part of an hour soaking up some of the water in the wells and on the sponge. I only went through the little window to min. temp and humidity shifts. I finally got back down to a level I'm happy with.
On top of this, my temps at the bottom of bator are much cooler than they were on tops of the eggs in turner. I haven't moved the knob, as I figured a steady temp is better that trying to restablize it. Plus, it's been at that temp the whole time.
It's now almost 2pm, and still nothing. No movement, pips, or anything and we are on day 21. I did count the day I set them as day 1 on accident, so I'm not totally worried or anything, plus I've had plently of late hatches before, but I am feeling anxious. These little guys only have till about 12pm on Wed to hatch, or I'm going to have to cull them, alive or not, as we start Easter break then.
Come on little chickies, come on!
