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[TwoCrows]

Alright. I am slightly struggling with humidity in the smaller incubator. Would the other eggs be alright to stop turning if I need my bigger incubator? The first one I bought doesn't auto turn too well so I was hand turning. At lockdown, batch 2 will be at 15 days.

Technically you can stop turning eggs at day 15 with no harm done.

 

[ElfenLied89]

Technically you can stop turning eggs at day 15 with no harm done.

I will try not to but if this incubator doesn't get its shiz together soon I will have to fight it. I can't seem to get the humidity right but I have a few more days to tinker with it.

 

[TwoCrows]

I will try not to but if this incubator doesn't get its shiz together soon I will have to fight it. I can't seem to get the humidity right but I have a few more days to tinker with it.

Is it really humid where you live? If the air itself is really humid, you won't be able to bring the moisture down.

 

[Debbie292d]

Yeah, I do plan on hatching at least a few times this year, but I hope I can hatch more than I’m planning on .
I’ll just have to watch other people hatch too fill up for me not hatching if I don’t hatch that much .

It would be nice if some of my hens would go broody……but I think the chances of that are very slim.

Get a silky. The chance of walking into any silkie owner's coop without at least one broody is practically impossible.

 

[Debbie292d]

I will try not to but if this incubator doesn't get its shiz together soon I will have to fight it. I can't seem to get the humidity right but I have a few more days to tinker with it.

Humidity is more like an average. If it jumps up and down, the eggs don't care. It's not as critical as temp provided you're neither drowning them or drying them out by being way high or way low for several hours or even days. It's hard for me too to keep it stable, even on the one that does it automatically.

 

[Debbie292d]

Now I need cleaning tips bc it sounds annoying af

I take it outside and used canned air or hubby's air compressor to blow all the eggshell chips and gunk out. Then I wash what I can with soap and water and let dry.

When I had totally disgusting dirty poopy duck eggs in there, after they were done, I sprayed it with Lysol disinfectant. I'm not sure if that stuff is so good to be using but I sure wanted to be sure it was sterile!

 

[ElfenLied89]

Get a silky. The chance of walking into any silkie owner's coop without at least one broody is practically impossible.

I miss my silky. His name was cloud. He was a white silky so of course cloud. Walked outside he was fine. Came home a couple hours later and he was dead. No injuries nothing. Bottom was open but no blood so I assume he got pecked after death. He was 3 months old.

 

[ElfenLied89]

I take it outside and used canned air or hubby's air compressor to blow all the eggshell chips and gunk out. Then I wash what I can with soap and water and let dry.

When I had totally disgusting dirty poopy duck eggs in there, after they were done, I sprayed it with Lysol disinfectant. I'm not sure if that stuff is so good to be using but I sure wanted to be sure it was sterile!

Too bad there isn't a cleaning animal lol.

 

[ElfenLied89]

Humidity is more like an average. If it jumps up and down, the eggs don't care. It's not as critical as temp provided you're neither drowning them or drying them out by being way high or way low for several hours or even days. It's hard for me too to keep it stable, even on the one that does it automatically.

I can get it to 75. I just can't get it lower yet. It still has water in it. I am going to take the water all out of it later and only put like a tsp in it.

 

[TwoCrows]

Good morning eggies! Thales, Lucky, let's see some growing today!