1. I was just told by someone that she doesn't check for air sacks before putting the eggs in an incubator. Until this time, neither had I but I have been doing some reading and thought it might be needed to judge how the air sacks are growing. My problem is this: I put 36 eggs in the incubator but only 6 of them had air sacks and I'm not real sure about one of them. I played with my new flashlight yesterday and I'm going to put new batteries in it and recheck the air sacks on the 3rd day of incubation. So, this question is: Does it mean anything that I can't see air sacks in some of the eggs before incubation starts?
2. I have 2 double yolk duck eggs and I am wondering if it is bad that the yolks in one egg seem to be free swimming? They don't float completely to the other side if I rotate the egg half way over but they do have plenty of movement. The yolks in the other one seem to slosh from side to side where they are, so is this a bad sign? That they seem to be attached in one place?
3. I just put the 36 eggs in my still air incubator, at what point does humidity become imperative? Right now it reads 29% and the temp is 100. The first time I used this incubator I didn't have a way to measure the humidity but kept the troughs full and wet sponges in it. I don't remember how many chicks hatched but it wasn't many. The last time I used it, I had 32 eggs in it and some of them had been pre set by a hen. They hatched after 2 weeks in the incubator. This time I had a temp/humidity meter from Walmart in it. I had a rough time trying to get the temp and humidity down after I put the eggs in. The temp kept running up to 102 and the humidity kept running up to 50% or higher. It finally settled to 99 temp and right around 40-43% humidity. Out of those 32 eggs I got 22 chicks (pre set) and 4 ducks. I might have gotten more but I misunderstood how to test them to see if there were living babies in the shells. No, I did not do and eggtopsy because I don't think I could have stood knowing that I took them out too early and killed them. I did let them go over the incubation time by 3 days.
I have plenty more questions but I need to write them down when I think of them because I seem to have swiss cheese for a memory. I really hate posting a new thread for one question. Thanks for any help, Sylvia
2. I have 2 double yolk duck eggs and I am wondering if it is bad that the yolks in one egg seem to be free swimming? They don't float completely to the other side if I rotate the egg half way over but they do have plenty of movement. The yolks in the other one seem to slosh from side to side where they are, so is this a bad sign? That they seem to be attached in one place?
3. I just put the 36 eggs in my still air incubator, at what point does humidity become imperative? Right now it reads 29% and the temp is 100. The first time I used this incubator I didn't have a way to measure the humidity but kept the troughs full and wet sponges in it. I don't remember how many chicks hatched but it wasn't many. The last time I used it, I had 32 eggs in it and some of them had been pre set by a hen. They hatched after 2 weeks in the incubator. This time I had a temp/humidity meter from Walmart in it. I had a rough time trying to get the temp and humidity down after I put the eggs in. The temp kept running up to 102 and the humidity kept running up to 50% or higher. It finally settled to 99 temp and right around 40-43% humidity. Out of those 32 eggs I got 22 chicks (pre set) and 4 ducks. I might have gotten more but I misunderstood how to test them to see if there were living babies in the shells. No, I did not do and eggtopsy because I don't think I could have stood knowing that I took them out too early and killed them. I did let them go over the incubation time by 3 days.
I have plenty more questions but I need to write them down when I think of them because I seem to have swiss cheese for a memory. I really hate posting a new thread for one question. Thanks for any help, Sylvia
