Lock down humidity help

[richard lee]

Is 65% 68% humidity high enough for lockdown

 

[greenchicken22]

I am on day 21 of incubation and I lost power this morning. It was about an 8 hour outage. I managed to keep the temp between 85 and 90 and humidity between 54-70. It is plugged back in now and the temp is slowly rising. What do you think my chances are of having a hatch. There are no external pips at all

 

[WVduckchick]

Is 65% 68% humidity high enough for lockdown

Yes!

I am on day 21 of incubation and I lost power this morning. It was about an 8 hour outage. I managed to keep the temp between 85 and 90 and humidity between 54-70. It is plugged back in now and the temp is slowly rising. What do you think my chances are of having a hatch. There are no external pips at all

Still very good chance.

 

[WVduckchick]

@greenchicken22

Yes!
Still very good chance.

Already day 21 and no pips? What breed? How have conditions been prior to the outage?

 

[dawn secord]

WVduckchick

Hi again. My egg # 1 in the incubator pipped yesterday morning. There was a very small hole at 1:30 yesterday afternoon. The egg slightly rotated during the night. I can see a slight movement in the hole right now - but nothing major.

Do you think all is okay?

Thanks - worried with first hatch

 

[WVduckchick]

WVduckchick

Hi again.  My egg # 1 in the incubator pipped yesterday morning.  There was a very small hole at 1:30 yesterday afternoon.  The egg slightly rotated during the night.  I can see a slight movement in the hole right now - but nothing major.

Do you think all is okay?

Thanks - worried with first hatch

I try not to worry until at least 18 hours from pip. 24 hours is not uncommon.

Can you get a pic? Can you see any membrane? It should look papery white or slightly gray. No brown.

 

[dawn secord]

All of a sudden major action. The pip is 3 times bigger now. Here are all three eggs in the incubator. It is a semi clear plastic. Of course it is closed - humidity is 69%

 

[dawn secord]

The membrane appears to be white. doesn't look like a hole has penetrated it yet.

 

[WVduckchick]

Yep, of the shell is broken, then most likely the membrane is pierced at least. They don't need a really huge hole to let air in. Humidity sounds good! I bet it will start zipping any time now.

 

[WVduckchick]

Is the visible end of that egg the fat end or the pointy end? Air cell or no?