Need Help

[My15Ducks]

okay so just leave them in there got it. sorry I'm new to using an incubator. just trying to save the little ones life best I can. its an n360 air forced incubator just set it up last night been checking on it today. the air vent is all the way open. the temp is set to 99.5 & humidity shows it goes between at around 52 to 54. the egg turner is working. There are 7 eggs total I wrote the date I put them in the machine & X mark on them. the eggs look like 3 of them are about around 12 days old & 2 of them look to be around 10 days old & 2 about maybe 8 days old from when the mom was sitting on them when I candled them looked at pics & vids to get an idea what they should look like. The older looking ones look like they are starting to look like they are growing a bit of a bill shape. they do have the red veins, & black looking hearts & moving around inside them & the air sacks look good all in tacked.

It sounds like everything is going well!
You can start the cooling and misting now since it looks like your babies are 10 days old

 

[My15Ducks]

Oh, do you have a calibrated thermometer in your incubator to check to make sure the incubator is accurate?

 

[newbie ducks]

Oh, do you have a calibrated thermometer in your incubator to check to make sure the incubator is accurate?

no its a digital n360 automatic forced air egg turner from tractor supply. I just bought the thing last night to put them in. I have it set on default for 21 days which I wrote on my calendar about how many weeks they might be at & wrote the date I got them on the eggs & 99.5 temp & humidity will go to 51 to 53. I got the vent opened all the way. I had to reset it it because I had added water to both A & B containers then had to dump it out found out I'm supposed to just add it to the A container & then add it to both containers around the time they hatch. opps! maybe that's why the turner is not turning every hour. I been pressing the test buttons every 4 hours or so during the day to turn them. maybe it will work tomorrow. I do keep it cold in my house around 70 degrees & the machine on the floor in corner away from the a/c vents if you need to know that. what's the best temp & humidity?

 

[My15Ducks]

no its a digital n360 automatic forced air egg turner from tractor supply. I just bought the thing last night to put them in. I have it set on default for 21 days which I wrote on my calendar about how many weeks they might be at & wrote the date I got them on the eggs & 99.5 temp & humidity will go to 51 to 53. I got the vent opened all the way. I had to reset it it because I had added water to both A & B containers then had to dump it out found out I'm supposed to just add it to the A container & then add it to both containers around the time they hatch. opps! maybe that's why the turner is not turning every hour. I been pressing the test buttons every 4 hours or so during the day to turn them. maybe it will work tomorrow. I do keep it cold in my house around 70 degrees & the machine on the floor in corner away from the a/c vents if you need to know that. what's the best temp & humidity?

Your temperature sounds good The reason I asked about the thermometer is that many incubators display a slightly incorrect temperature. So for example, my incubator could say that it is 99.5, but it’s actually 99 or 98.5, etc.. To verify that the incubator is accurate, many people put an additional thermometer in the incubator. You can calibrate the thermometer using boiling or freezing water, you can read how online (I’m not an expert at that). Or you can even use an oral mercury thermometer and just stick it in your incubator for a couple minutes and see what it says. That’s what I did before buying several more digital thermometers to put in my incubator.

As for humidity, there are a lot of different opinions on humidity and I’m still trying to find what works best for my environment. Personally I think your humidity sounds good and I wouldn’t change it

 

[newbie ducks]

thank you I will look for thermometers