Question re: hovabators...having bad hatches..

[Three Cedars Silkies]

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Glad to know this...I'll take this into consideration. The reason I said it is because the one chick that hatched was sticky with albumen and that's usually from a low temp, high humidity hatch.

I do nothing but dry hatches in my 4 hovabators and have good hatches, so I don't think that's the problem.....sorry, I don't know what to suggest other than using your own eggs if these have been shipped eggs and trying to tweek things a bit at a time.

Katy...what temp do you use in your Hovabators? I kept mine from 99.8 - 100...at least that what the thermometers showed. I'm considering going up to the higher end of the hatching range.

 

[walkswithdog]

Calibrate your thermometers, even new ones and ones reading the same thing can be off and make you

And use that water wiggler...

 

[MAllen]

Your're in SoCal, where it's very dry and you're using a forced air bator. I think your humidity was way to low. Here in Oklahoma I run 50% days 1-18 and 80% 19 to hatch. My run was 31 shipped eggs and 26 hatched in the first run of the HB 1588.

 

[Katy]

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I do nothing but dry hatches in my 4 hovabators and have good hatches, so I don't think that's the problem.....sorry, I don't know what to suggest other than using your own eggs if these have been shipped eggs and trying to tweek things a bit at a time.

Katy...what temp do you use in your Hovabators? I kept mine from 99.8 - 100...at least that what the thermometers showed. I'm considering going up to the higher end of the hatching range.

That's where I try and keep my temps too.