Ok, you know you are a hatch-a-holic when this happens. I set 40 of my mixed breed eggs three weeks ago. I didn't annotate the date and over the weekend I started trying to figure out when day 18 would be. For some reason I thought I set the eggs on a Sunday so I thought today would be day 18. Last night I got lucky and happened to look at the eggs before going to bed. They were still in the turner with the humidity at 20% and there were four pips! Talk about surprised! I removed them from the turner and increased the humidity to 76%. I just got home from work and there are four tiny chicks! Looks like a bunch are pipped and I can hear a lot of peeping in the eggs.
Im seriously going to have to rethink how I incubate. This batch was at 20% humidity the entire 20 days. Since they had pipped so strong on day 20 I thought about leaving the humidity at 20% just to see the results.....but I didn't. We'll see how many of the 36 that made it to day 20 will actually hatch.... PIC
Im seriously going to have to rethink how I incubate. This batch was at 20% humidity the entire 20 days. Since they had pipped so strong on day 20 I thought about leaving the humidity at 20% just to see the results.....but I didn't. We'll see how many of the 36 that made it to day 20 will actually hatch.... PIC
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