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AverellFarms said:
I actually had some very encouraging air cell growth by day 18 in most of my eggs. The Olive Eggers eggs, a little less growth but i think that has to do with how thick their shells are. Less porosity, less moisture loss? We went into Lockdown Wednesday night with good air cell sizes, and live chicks. Day 20 now, so fingers crossed. Also, my portable hygrometer/thermometer read around 16% humidity those last 3 days, but the one built into the incubator never dropped 48% no matter what I did. I added water for lockdown and the portable reads about 70% but the built-in
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AverellFarms said:
I actually had some very encouraging air cell growth by day 18 in most of my eggs. The Olive Eggers eggs, a little less growth but i think that has to do with how thick their shells are. Less porosity, less moisture loss? We went into Lockdown Wednesday night with good air cell sizes, and live chicks. Day 20 now, so fingers crossed. Also, my portable hygrometer/thermometer read around 16% humidity those last 3 days, but the one built into the incubator never dropped 48% no matter what I did. I added water for lockdown and the portable reads about 70% but the built-in reads 62.
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Fingers crossed for them. Hopefully they will hatch ok for you. I'm hoping mine will do ok as well. Can't wait to hear how yours gets on.
 

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