Ran out of water at start of day 7!

[Laura78]

Day 7.

 

[LilDucky85]

What actually will happen if the humidity is too high? Will they drown in their shells?

 

[hooksetz]

I don't know if they'll drown in the early stages or not, but my first hatch in my QGF hatcher I screwed up on the humidity, and the shells were like rubber bouncy balls, they couldn't crack out. And before I realized it I had lost over half of that hatch. You learn these things by trial and error, and something like that you'll only do once.

 

[Akane]

Too low of humidity will make the air cells too big from too much moisture loss so the chicks don't have room to grow or don't have room to position for hatching. Too high of humidity will make the air cells too small from too little moisture loss so the chicks have trouble breaking into the air cell and don't have enough air when they do so they either drown on the extra fluid in the membrane or suffocate because they can't pip the outside of the shell fast enough. It takes at least several hours usually a couple days to start to impact the size of the air cell. Mine just went down to 25% because I haven't been checking the water. Don't know how long it's been like that but they are only on day 6 so it can't have been too long. I candled 2 and the air cells look normal size.

You can see things as early as day 3. Usually I can't see anything before day 4 or 5 even on light shelled eggs but there are still veins growing well before day 7. With a good candler and light shelled eggs you can see those veins. You should also be able to see an air cell except on very fresh eggs.

 

[crzychicken]

Wow i just got a great incabator lesson Thank you Akane my on dat 2 humidity went up to 59-60 % during the night it started raining out and it got very warm out side I think the house humid. must have gone up there for my incabators did also it's back down now but I did wonder what it did do to my eggs Thank you