Tis Time for a March 2020 Hatch-a-long!

[BluebirdHomestead]

It can take 24 hours before they zip! No worries!

Yep totally I’ve had it take that long...I just haven’t had one pip this little without like making it a little bigger so I’m getting impatient.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Blue bird You could even wake in the morning with no progress... grr but it is much grosser to help! just know if it pips it can breathe, and remember, the can be shipped across country for 3 days with out needing food or water, so sitting in an egg with a pip is not a big deal.

Oh gosh I definitely learned from experience that helping is not the answer until much much later.

 

[BluebirdHomestead]

Like can it really breath through this little crack?

 

[Mylied]

I candled the eggs again. Day 12. One more quitter. Here's the weird side air cell egg, looking good.

 

[Mylied]

Like can it really breath through this little crack?View attachment 2042100

I think they can. Most of mine make tiny chips for many hours before enlarging it.

 

[gmjarvi]

Yes I think I got the same 4 pack as you I think they work well! Ok I’m going to try that because it just dries up too fast when I just pour water in. I was also thinking of a sponge or paper towel for lockdown. Let me know how it goes!!

When you say low do you mean about 30 or even lower more like 20?

I will keep everyone posted on this thread for sure! lockdown starts tomorrow!

And FWIW, I've been keeping my humidity in the magicfly between 20 and 30%, it has even dipped as low as 15% overnight a couple of times. I've only had one embryo quit on me. My eggs hit the 13% weightloss mark yesterday, so I've been trying to keep the humidity higher (around 50%) to avoid them losing too much more weight.

 

[julskinka]

Yep totally I’ve had it take that long...I just haven’t had one pip this little without like making it a little bigger so I’m getting impatient.

I think the darker/thicker eggs be like that. At least, that's been my experience. Seems like the poor buggers really have to work for it.

 

[Mysticalsys]

I’m gonna jump on in. I have 2 goose eggs due in a week and a half and some chicken eggs due in 15 days

 

[CluckNDoodle]

When you say low do you mean about 30 or even lower more like 20?

I can't give you an exact number because I don't have first had experience with those incubators but I would think that 20-30% would be good for the first 18 days and increasing it to about 45-50% for hatch but if you see any condensation on the plastic that's too high. Monitoring the air cell growth in early days of incubation is the easier way to determine whether to increase or decrease humidity levels.
In my own plastic incubators I incubate at 45-55% for the first 18 days and increase to 65% for hatch and with styrofoam I ran them about 10% lower. Your incubators are unknown territory for me though outside of what I've read about and that's that people have issues with the humidity being too high in them so to run them "drier".

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Like can it really breath through this little crack?View attachment 2042100

My Marans seem to make pips like this more. I think their shells are thicker. They seem to hatch ok though!