Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with!

[CALI CHICK]

So I find that to be confusing. If you had a huge air cell, why would they not have room to turn and get to it? What caused them to be stuck?

The humidity was TOO low, which allowed too much water to evaporate. The aircell was big and the inner membrane was basically pushing down on the chick. The membrane shrinkwraps around them because there isn't enough fluid left in the egg.
-The opposite is when the humidity is TOO high and the aircell can't grow. It stays too wet inside the egg and the chicks drown (when they grow in the fluid little egg) and they get a beakful of water instead of air at the time they pip.

 

[wholewheatchicken]

You're sweet!!!! Don't worry, I heard all about it up close and personal. Mind you, if I did take them out too early, they were dead before we did the eggtopsy because they would have been cold. I had just left them on the table. I don't know that I was thinking real clearly at the time...wait, that makes me sound unstable! I think I was a little freaked out at the ones that were stuck in the shell because I opened the lid and I just panicked.
This time I'm worried I have the humidity too high and I will drown them. Tonight is weigh in for the end of week 2, but it is something of a guess since I weighed them in ounces and not grams. After these that are due on Monday, I weighed in grams since I figured that out.
Guess what?????? I started the process today to become NPIP certified. Someone else in my area is wanting to get tested too so the person thought they might make a trip next week to come this way. I guess it can take a while for someone to come if nobody around you is asking to be tested also.
I will keep you posted.

 

[Cattitude]

Thursday is lockdown for my 3/4 batch. I am so hoping that these do well; these are eggs from my own chickens in this round, rather than Mom's barnyard mixes.

 

[Marty1876]

I lock down Giant Peking Ducks on Wednesday. Due the 24th.

 

[JulieNKC]

I lock down Giant Peking Ducks on Wednesday. Due the 24th.

Are those guys due already? My birthdays the 23rd, maybe they'll hatch then.

 

[CALI CHICK]

Some people incubate at 50% with no problem. Another way to check besides weighing (which might be easier) is to just LOOK at the aircell.
[At 7 days it should be about the size of a quarter. At 14 days about the size of a fifty cent piece. If larger...add more moisture. If smaller, than reduce humidity level] That's what the directions say in my Brower instructions. I'm sure this is for normal size eggs so it will hopefully look correct on my EE eggs. The silkie eggs will probably look smaller, but I think I have the basic idea of how much proportionally the airspace should be growing.

Good luck

to us all!

You're sweet!!!! Don't worry, I heard all about it up close and personal. Mind you, if I did take them out too early, they were dead before we did the eggtopsy because they would have been cold. I had just left them on the table. I don't know that I was thinking real clearly at the time...wait, that makes me sound unstable! I think I was a little freaked out at the ones that were stuck in the shell because I opened the lid and I just panicked.
This time I'm worried I have the humidity too high and I will drown them. Tonight is weigh in for the end of week 2, but it is something of a guess since I weighed them in ounces and not grams. After these that are due on Monday, I weighed in grams since I figured that out.
Guess what?????? I started the process today to become NPIP certified. Someone else in my area is wanting to get tested too so the person thought they might make a trip next week to come this way. I guess it can take a while for someone to come if nobody around you is asking to be tested also.
I will keep you posted.

 

[CALI CHICK]

around here the girls just go bare foot....tho that may be because they don't know what shoes are..

Oh! A wise guy, eh?

(Actually I've just always wanted to use that "smiley"-LOL)

If I didn't have animals, I would go barefoot. And as for the feed store...we are so civilized here in California, that it is against the law to go in a store barefoot. I do the next best thing and wear my flip-flops with manicured toenails. And my son laughs at me for NOT looking like I own animals...so now my boots help me fit in much better.

 

[mohillbilly]

Oh! A wise guy, eh?

(Actually I've just always wanted to use that "smiley"-LOL)

If I didn't have animals, I would go barefoot. And as for the feed store...we are so civilized here in California, that it is against the law to go in a store barefoot. I do the next best thing and wear my flip-flops with manicured toenails. And my son laughs at me for NOT looking like I own animals...so now my boots help me fit in much better.

well i guess that's better than being laughed at because you look like an animal....They keep telling me I'm as surly as an old bear

 

[wholewheatchicken]

Some people incubate at 50% with no problem. Another way to check besides weighing (which might be easier) is to just LOOK at the aircell.
[At 7 days it should be about the size of a quarter. At 14 days about the size of a fifty cent piece. If larger...add more moisture. If smaller, than reduce humidity level] That's what the directions say in my Brower instructions. I'm sure this is for normal size eggs so it will hopefully look correct on my EE eggs. The silkie eggs will probably look smaller, but I think I have the basic idea of how much proportionally the airspace should be growing.

Good luck

to us all!

I can't correlate what I see to the size of a quarter. I have tried that method. If you knew me, you would know my brain just flips in an odd way. To me it looks weird because it's not flat, it curves down and then later it curves down and around.
Hey, maybe I will see where the kids hid my camera and take a picture while I have them out tonight weighing. Surely someone on here will be able to tell if they look good........especially mohillbilly! We'll give him something to do besides rib the girls.
I know how you feel Cali Chick. When I wear my cowgirl boots, I feel like a real woman.......just don't put me near a horse, LOL!

 

[onawhimfarm]

I would be willing to keep going on this thread.

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Yes, I did do the dry hatch last time. I kept my H around 25-30% the first time. I had 12 out of 24 hatch. I did raise the H to 70% for lockdown, but I had 1 sticky chick hatch that I had to help out. It was the last one to hatch also. The rest of them hatched with no problems at all. Well, except 1 did hatch before absorbing the yolk, but he was the 3 or 4 one hatched.




Yep, you are correct. I'm about 45 minutes from Lake Erie. Right now I have added no water to my incubator for this hatch and it is reading 32% H. It is fluctuating with the ambiant H in the house.