Thank you. I appreciate your help. I will take a look on eBay. I wish I done a hatch along with this batch that I am hatching right now. They’re Welsh Harlequins. It’s not looking good and with it being my first incubation I probably should’ve sought help.
I checked my eggs again this morning, and I had one that was internally pipped, but it had passed away. When I checked before bed last night, I noticed that it had pipped and was hoping that it would make progress overnight. I wouldn’t have checked them at this point, but they are on day 32 going on 33. I don’t really have a whole lot of hope for the ones that are left but there is movement in some of the others so I left them. One in particular it was moving around a lot, so I’m hoping when I get home this evening it will have made progress.
I didn’t realize until late in the incubation process that the temperature is not accurate on the incubator display. I assumed the entire time that it was 98.5. When I put my thermometer in there it’s showing 95°. This is a thermometer that I have sitting on my counter at home so I know it’s fairly accurate because it usually reads what my thermostat reads. I will be investing in a good thermometer. I’m also unsure what humidity was during incubation, but I know it had to been fairly good because my house was at 55%. I was adding water to the incubator. Air cells looked good. Right now the humidity is ranging between 65 and 70% now that I have the monitor in the unit. The actual incubator doesn’t have a gauge for humidity.
I may need to just purchase a decent incubator. This one was a good deal and I wanted to take a try at hatching. It’s heartbreaking when you see that they don’t make it and it’s your fault.
Thank you!
