Lock down not going as expected.

[Pasha1]

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I ran it for a week and until today was holding super steady. never below 100 and never over 101. I don't whats wrong. today it's all over the place. I have 2 the other has been steady all through incubation. I have had literally no problems. every egg I collected was fertile. Candled 3 times cause I couldn't see anything at day 8 (brown eggs). and the last time I candled is the night before I put them into the hatcher and they are still moving and fill the egg. Other then not studying what needed to be done between days 18-21 until yesterday I had a great plan. One bator to turn and one to hatch. This lockdown bit was totally unexpected until day 18. Even still managed to add eggs yesterday with no change in temp or humidity. Now temp has jumped to 102.3.

 

[scbatz33]

it may have gotten bumped. Or, it may be just being an lg. Sorry, I know that's not helpful but they can be a pain in the butt!

I think you'll be fine. the fluctuations are just recent. If you were having this kind of problem the whole time, then I'd be more worried.

 

[Pasha1]

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Yeah. Fixed the humidty vent problem. lol My son walked by with one of those plastic sports cups with the ridged super long bendy straws and yanked it out of his drink, cleaned it and fed warm water thru it with my injectable marinade syringe. (Can't do finger over one end with those) Because it bends I could reach all sponges and all wells. with it from one air vent. So vents open and holding at 67%.

Temp is 98 again. I would be happy if I can just keep it over 99.

Note to self save up for a bator with a thermostat. This is just ridiculous. One chick... one chick will make me happy. would hate to make it this far and lose them all because of gremlins. Think I thought name ideas. Time to look up the names of the gremlins. I remember Spike and Gizmo. lol

 

[calgal98]

The rest of the story with this hatch........... I had a series of staggered hatches goin and this is the final one. Last weekend I finished one group of chicks and pulled them out, relaxed and went to bed. I got up in the morning to find my temp at 87*. I discovered that I had hit the wrong adjustment and had lowered the temp. My fault. I did a quick candle and didn't see any problems so readjusted the temp. On Tuesday (the next day) I went to check the temp and discovered that I had left the therm/hyd. on the outside of the incubator. No worries, I had adjusted the temp. I put the eggs on the hatcher level and got everything set, put the therm in and discovered it had spiked to 103. That was an overnite flux. I'm sure this was again my fault. Now I was worried. Candled and saw no movement and pretty large air sacks. I said oh, well, can't help what is already done, reset the temp and watched it like a hawk. On Thurs I candled a couple and SAW MOVEMENT! Locked it back down and now have 8 hatched and several pips.

That is why I said relax. Sometimes things mess up and the hatch still goes well. Take a nice relaxing bath. Have a glass of wine. Read a book. There really is no way to correct or undo what is done and what I read really wasn't much of a problem. Worse things happen and chicks still hatch!

I know its stressful....so Hugs!

 

[Pasha1]

thank you. guess we will find out soon. wine sounds good... vodka sounds better. lol