Staggered hatch one incubator humidity advice needed

[igorsMistress]

Humidity is at 60% and I saw movement in all the eggs yesterday

 

[BlueBaby]

Good luck!

 

[starri33]

Crossing my fingers for both of you.. hope the hatches turn out wonderful.

 

[sumi]

Fingers crossed!

 

[igorsMistress]

Good luck!

Good luck BB!

 

[007Sean]

Hi all-

I picked up eggs from someone who set a few on different dates, put them in my incubator and added few more so I have 9 eggs, 3 different hatch dates.

First eggs are due by this weekend. How many days before should I increase humidity?

Currently it's at 40% and I'm using a HovaBator with humidikit, humidity increases quickly when I change the setting and it maintains very well.

Thanks!

If it were me...and it's not but I'd run the entire bunch at 50 to 55% through out the first 'lockdown' date until the final hatch.
I've done similar staggered hatches with good results using this %RH. I would be hesitant to keep the humidity at 60% for 10 to 12 days.
Good luck and Best wishes with whatever method you use.

 

[igorsMistress]

If it were me...and it's not but I'd run the entire bunch at 50 to 55% through out the first 'lockdown' date until the final hatch.
I've done similar staggered hatches with good results using this %RH. I would be hesitant to keep the humidity at 60% for 10 to 12 days.
Good luck and Best wishes with whatever method you use.

Thanks Sean. I'll keep this in mind if I ever try this again.

It worked out that 5 eggs due later were infertile so I'm at 60% on lockdown for 3 eggs, should be hatching tomorrow. Only 2 hatches instead of 3.

 

[007Sean]

Thanks Sean. I'll keep this in mind if I ever try this again.

It worked out that 5 eggs due later were infertile so I'm at 60% on lockdown for 3 eggs, should be hatching tomorrow. Only 2 hatches instead of 3.

Good luck, sorry to hear of the infertile but that happens....are they the shipped eggs? If so, the shipping has a tendency to disrupt the germinal cells of the blastoderm, the results is what appears to be an infertile egg but before it shipped, it was fertile. Why this happens to some shipped eggs and not others is a mystery to me...one would think that they all would be killed if the shipping was that disrupted, tossed, jumbled around during shipping but it also depends on the method used to ship, ie; foam, sawdust, bubble wrapped, tissue paper, etc.
You can crack those eggs open and try to discern whether or not they were fertile by examining the germinal disc. Hold your nose when you do it, though.

 

[aart]

Only 2 hatches instead of 3.

Bummer!

 

[igorsMistress]

Good luck, sorry to hear of the infertile but that happens....are they the shipped eggs? If so, the shipping has a tendency to disrupt the germinal cells of the blastoderm, the results is what appears to be an infertile egg but before it shipped, it was fertile. Why this happens to some shipped eggs and not others is a mystery to me...one would think that they all would be killed if the shipping was that disrupted, tossed, jumbled around during shipping but it also depends on the method used to ship, ie; foam, sawdust, bubble wrapped, tissue paper, etc.
You can crack those eggs open and try to discern whether or not they were fertile by examining the germinal disc. Hold your nose when you do it, though.

No, the shipped eggs are still doing great! Saddled air cells, came from NC and started a few days in another incubator before I got them, but there was movement when I candled before lockdown.

I knew it was a gamble for the duds, the person I got them from sold her rooster a bit before I got the eggs. Honestly, if these last 3 hatch, I'm back up to 16 chickens and that's enough for now.