Hi folks! I thought I'd come sit in. I have 7 eggs in a brinsea mini adv from my own flock due to hatch in 20 days.
I had a bad hatch I think from high humidity. It's been raining a lot this past month and even though I only filled one water pot, I think it may have been too high as of the seven eggs I had, one quit early, and four quit VERY late and had nearly fully developed chicks in them. All had too-small air cells that hardly grew. I do have two brand new peepers in the basement looking hale and healthy! One black, and one with chipmunk stripes. The pen is transitioning from being hens for eating eggs to an easter egger project and the pen is currently a young non-hatchery ameraucana over two Australorps and five golden comets.
Since it's still very humid here, I have decided to try it with no water in the incubator for now. I am glad I did as right now it's pouring cats and dogs outside and we have high humidity from air alone. My windows are fogging even! Hoping this hatch goes better than the last.
I had a bad hatch I think from high humidity. It's been raining a lot this past month and even though I only filled one water pot, I think it may have been too high as of the seven eggs I had, one quit early, and four quit VERY late and had nearly fully developed chicks in them. All had too-small air cells that hardly grew. I do have two brand new peepers in the basement looking hale and healthy! One black, and one with chipmunk stripes. The pen is transitioning from being hens for eating eggs to an easter egger project and the pen is currently a young non-hatchery ameraucana over two Australorps and five golden comets.
Since it's still very humid here, I have decided to try it with no water in the incubator for now. I am glad I did as right now it's pouring cats and dogs outside and we have high humidity from air alone. My windows are fogging even! Hoping this hatch goes better than the last.
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