SnowyChickenMomma
Songster
This is my First ever time incubating eggs, would love advice! I have the Farm Innovators 4250 series which has the automatic egg turner and the air thing, and also it monitors the heat and the humidity. I messed up in the beginning and each day my chickens laid eggs I added more eggs by the day. I realize now thats the wrong way but I am still going to do the best I can to try to save them all. I have my brooder all set up with the heat lamp already going. Each day its staying at 100 exactly. I would love someone to help me with my math problem I have:
4 eggs that I put in on the 18th of March
4 eggs that I put in on the 19th of March
1 LARGE egg (double yolker) that I put in on the 21st
4 eggs that I put in on the 25th
and
6 eggs that I put in on the 30th
That night I realized I messed up and stopped putting more eggs in. So MAD at myself!!
I started putting eggs in on March 18th, it started the countdown as 21 days... according to my calendar I should be expecting chicks April 8th in 2 days. The 18th day according to my calendar was Sunday April 5th so I had to remove the automatic egg turner part and put the eggs on the bottom rack of the incubator. I only left the eggs from the 18th and 19th as I felt they were close enough to not have to open and close the incubator too much in those last 3 days which they said not to do.
I keep an eye on humidity and raise it to between 60-70% versus the usual 50-60% so I am doing good with that. I put all the other eggs into the brooder under a heat lamp and I keep turning them every so often like 4-5 times a day. I'm really worried about what to do when the chicks start to hatch. They are all going to be hatching days apart.
The math problem I have is... the countdown timer on the top is displaying 5 days right now. But I put them in on the 18th. We lost power for a 2 minute period one time it flickered basically and I had to reset all my clocks. Then when I unhooked the egg turner thingie I accidentally unhooked the whole thing so I had to plug it back in. I'm kinda wondering if that messed with the timer. I'm not crazy right they are still suppose to be due April 8th? Just makes me feel like more of a loser if I stopped the egg turning pre-maturely.
Please lend me your advice... what would you do
4 eggs that I put in on the 18th of March
4 eggs that I put in on the 19th of March
1 LARGE egg (double yolker) that I put in on the 21st
4 eggs that I put in on the 25th
and
6 eggs that I put in on the 30th
That night I realized I messed up and stopped putting more eggs in. So MAD at myself!!
I started putting eggs in on March 18th, it started the countdown as 21 days... according to my calendar I should be expecting chicks April 8th in 2 days. The 18th day according to my calendar was Sunday April 5th so I had to remove the automatic egg turner part and put the eggs on the bottom rack of the incubator. I only left the eggs from the 18th and 19th as I felt they were close enough to not have to open and close the incubator too much in those last 3 days which they said not to do.
I keep an eye on humidity and raise it to between 60-70% versus the usual 50-60% so I am doing good with that. I put all the other eggs into the brooder under a heat lamp and I keep turning them every so often like 4-5 times a day. I'm really worried about what to do when the chicks start to hatch. They are all going to be hatching days apart.
The math problem I have is... the countdown timer on the top is displaying 5 days right now. But I put them in on the 18th. We lost power for a 2 minute period one time it flickered basically and I had to reset all my clocks. Then when I unhooked the egg turner thingie I accidentally unhooked the whole thing so I had to plug it back in. I'm kinda wondering if that messed with the timer. I'm not crazy right they are still suppose to be due April 8th? Just makes me feel like more of a loser if I stopped the egg turning pre-maturely.
Please lend me your advice... what would you do
