I had 12 eggs in incubator from a fairly rare breed here in the US. On day 14 11 out of the 12 seemed to be developed. However, because of the rare breed I left the 12th in.
We did everything we could to manage the humidity and temperature, and ofcourse everything seemed to be going off the normal path. First off all we caught the mailman throwing the box with eggs from a 5 feet distance on the porch. (box was labeled perfectly with EGGS, Live Embryos, etc) The eggs were 3 days longer on the way than the 2 day delivery time supposed to be. When in incubator we got 2x a power interruption. 1x due to lightning and power was off for 2.5 hours. For some reason we couldn't manage the humidity very well, either hours and hours on 30-35% or 70-72% due to very dry freezing air. In the beginning the temp was 100 - 101 (after second week we got it fine tuned to 99.5) We used our most solid incubator (sportsman) we used in 2 years before this season. As you see; Totally not the perfect setting.
Now past saturday we had our first egg pipping on day 19, and came out this morning on day 21. In the meanwhile 9 of the 12 hatched over the last 12 hours and 2 others are pipped. Because the one who started pipping on saturday, hatched this morning, is dry and very strong compared to the others, and normally ready to go in brooder.
What shall I do? Take some out with the chance that the other 2 are getting s.wrapped? I also do not want to lose the ones I have. We never (!!) expected after everything such an amazing result!!
I know they can be in the incubator for 24 hours, and the others are still wet but it is so tempting to get them out, give the some gell and have them safe....
I'm a little bit more anxious because the breed and money I spend for them...
What to do, please advice!
Marty
We did everything we could to manage the humidity and temperature, and ofcourse everything seemed to be going off the normal path. First off all we caught the mailman throwing the box with eggs from a 5 feet distance on the porch. (box was labeled perfectly with EGGS, Live Embryos, etc) The eggs were 3 days longer on the way than the 2 day delivery time supposed to be. When in incubator we got 2x a power interruption. 1x due to lightning and power was off for 2.5 hours. For some reason we couldn't manage the humidity very well, either hours and hours on 30-35% or 70-72% due to very dry freezing air. In the beginning the temp was 100 - 101 (after second week we got it fine tuned to 99.5) We used our most solid incubator (sportsman) we used in 2 years before this season. As you see; Totally not the perfect setting.
Now past saturday we had our first egg pipping on day 19, and came out this morning on day 21. In the meanwhile 9 of the 12 hatched over the last 12 hours and 2 others are pipped. Because the one who started pipping on saturday, hatched this morning, is dry and very strong compared to the others, and normally ready to go in brooder.
What shall I do? Take some out with the chance that the other 2 are getting s.wrapped? I also do not want to lose the ones I have. We never (!!) expected after everything such an amazing result!!
I know they can be in the incubator for 24 hours, and the others are still wet but it is so tempting to get them out, give the some gell and have them safe....
I'm a little bit more anxious because the breed and money I spend for them...
What to do, please advice!
Marty
