MoonMoon
Chirping
Okay. I may have too much hope on this chinese’s cheap, bought-on-sale, incubator, but I want to document this journey anyway. It seems every time I don't write everything down disaster happens and I am not up to losing another chick, I’ve lost too many now, my heart 
I just set 11 more eggs yesterday, and 19 eggs yester-yesterday's I think? Both around 8-10 pm?
And my memory is already slipping free. Because of my goldfish grade brain, I’ve decided to start a thread for my clutch of 30 eggs in my 30 eggs capacity Wonegg incubator, bought for 34€. Mainly because if I don't document it down in some memorable site, I’ll straight up forgor what day it is in incubation timeline, what to do(the thought remind me of more important memories) and the core of it is real humans comment on them. I may need names, I don't know yet, lol
Enough rambling. Today is day 3 I think.
19 eggs set on 29th of April. An egg was laid on the 27th, stored improperly indoor but still viable I think as it was still early. Was in 23°C and 45% humidity, in an egg carton with 28th eggs. A few eggs were from the 28th and most were from the 29th. I didn’t have enough for a full clutch because I had just sold a bunch of eggs, so day 30th I put in 11 eggs laid that day, so slight stagger hatching but shouldn't matter too much?
I was in a rush to put in the rest of the 30th eggs in so I forgot to mark some eggs I think but on the 4th-5th I’ll check for fertility and mark them then. I circle the air sack and wrote date, though I heard it didn’t matter much. But still I like keeping tracks.
A few eggs are too long, a few wonky, a few too round but none is too deformed? An egg has an abnormally thick bloom(it’s almost all white) plenty of eggs are too small, a few too big, a few too dirty, but because this is my first hatch I wanted to experiment so I’ve set them all. I already steeled myself for heart break though, it’s inevitable I lose a few.
I’ve fed my hens an all layer feed diet before ordering the incubator, so that I get high quality eggs, but the incubator missed the delivery date by 10-20 days so before that, I’ve ran out quite a bit of the feed reserve and start feeding them kitchen scraps with layer feed. The eggs from that were wonky and small for some reason, but they laid more, and the chickens unfortunately liked eating the scraps more than the feed. Then the incubator arrived, right in the middle of me giving them that odd diet. Next batch I’ll do better but since I don't want to wait anymore it is late into the season already, I’ve set the eggs from that batch so we’ll see how many hatch...
Temp is stable-ish 37°C-38°C. I tried keeping humidity on the 50% but sometimes I accidentally made it spike to 60% or let it drop to 35-40%, it is not easy to maintain humidity in this wind-based incubator but I will try to keep it 50% for the entire duration(yes, I may do dry hatching)
Ambient room temp is 20°C-30°C, humidity is 40-60%.
I just set 11 more eggs yesterday, and 19 eggs yester-yesterday's I think? Both around 8-10 pm?
And my memory is already slipping free. Because of my goldfish grade brain, I’ve decided to start a thread for my clutch of 30 eggs in my 30 eggs capacity Wonegg incubator, bought for 34€. Mainly because if I don't document it down in some memorable site, I’ll straight up forgor what day it is in incubation timeline, what to do(the thought remind me of more important memories) and the core of it is real humans comment on them. I may need names, I don't know yet, lol
Enough rambling. Today is day 3 I think.
19 eggs set on 29th of April. An egg was laid on the 27th, stored improperly indoor but still viable I think as it was still early. Was in 23°C and 45% humidity, in an egg carton with 28th eggs. A few eggs were from the 28th and most were from the 29th. I didn’t have enough for a full clutch because I had just sold a bunch of eggs, so day 30th I put in 11 eggs laid that day, so slight stagger hatching but shouldn't matter too much?
I was in a rush to put in the rest of the 30th eggs in so I forgot to mark some eggs I think but on the 4th-5th I’ll check for fertility and mark them then. I circle the air sack and wrote date, though I heard it didn’t matter much. But still I like keeping tracks.
A few eggs are too long, a few wonky, a few too round but none is too deformed? An egg has an abnormally thick bloom(it’s almost all white) plenty of eggs are too small, a few too big, a few too dirty, but because this is my first hatch I wanted to experiment so I’ve set them all. I already steeled myself for heart break though, it’s inevitable I lose a few.
I’ve fed my hens an all layer feed diet before ordering the incubator, so that I get high quality eggs, but the incubator missed the delivery date by 10-20 days so before that, I’ve ran out quite a bit of the feed reserve and start feeding them kitchen scraps with layer feed. The eggs from that were wonky and small for some reason, but they laid more, and the chickens unfortunately liked eating the scraps more than the feed. Then the incubator arrived, right in the middle of me giving them that odd diet. Next batch I’ll do better but since I don't want to wait anymore it is late into the season already, I’ve set the eggs from that batch so we’ll see how many hatch...
Temp is stable-ish 37°C-38°C. I tried keeping humidity on the 50% but sometimes I accidentally made it spike to 60% or let it drop to 35-40%, it is not easy to maintain humidity in this wind-based incubator but I will try to keep it 50% for the entire duration(yes, I may do dry hatching)
Ambient room temp is 20°C-30°C, humidity is 40-60%.
