Good evening, well I just weighted my eggs, all are on target, after 6 weeks, they lost 13% of there weight, so I can suppose that after 7 weeks they should be right on the magic 15%... 354 and 355 are really moving, 356 didn't move but the game isn't over yet! For yours A and B, try to move them closer to the fan if you can. One week to go before the final stage, I ordered starter chick food today. It's getting real. We keep our fingers crossed.
Exciting, ours are basically right after each other. I have eggs in the #340s I believe.
I don't know if my incubator has a fan? It's a cabinet incubator. Or maybe I'm just stupid. The bottom shelf is a different temp than the top, and that's why I've never opted to shuffle them around.
Okay so exciting update, I heard E scratching around in there today!
I've been searching relentlessly for information to my questions, and I'm not getting a clear answer. When to stop turning for eggs that are incubating closer to 95? Surely not day 49 as that would be approx six days before hatch? I think I will keep turning them into the early days 50+. I am stopping turning E now, it's day 48. I let him roll where he wants to sit and that is kinda on his side. He immediately became more active when I put him back in the bator like that. I tapped and whistled to him, and I feel really good about it, like he might hatch in the next couple days! The wiggling has definitely become more aggressive in A and B also. C is wiggling about the same.
I put D for Dud (hasn't moved or leaned or done anything) at the bottom of the bator and left F beside E but moved it away. F hasn't done anything either, but was leaning. I wanted to give more room to E instead of being squished up against the other eggs and not being able to roll around if needed. I hope I'm making good decisions here!!
As far as the weight loss scare, A is now at 10.29% weight loss, and B is almost out of the danger zone at 11.29%. E is nearly at 16% because of the drastic methods I had to use to get A/B caught up. I still have another 6-7 days to get A close to 12% and I think I will be able to do it. Still lowkey cursing husband for not catching this back in early june when I went on vacation!
I have to work tonight and tomorrow morning and I'm so scared I'll miss the action!!!
I already spoke to my boss and explained that because E is probably going to hatch days before A/B and C he might be lonely and is it okay if I bring my baby emu to work? haha he said he wouldn't be here so... essentially I got the go-ahead. It's just a small store, I can keep him behind the til. Okay I'm counting my emus before they hatch again, I should stop that.
Eeeee!! I even had a dream last night that three hatched! But, because it was a dream, they turned into Pekin ducks instead of emus. lol
IT was 602 also, currently at 551, and needs to meet 529 to get 12% weight loss.
