Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

[My hen house]

Oh no! I'm so sorry! It sounds like you usually kept the humidity nice and low through incubation but if you had fluid build up in the air cell then it was definitely too high. 80-90% can definitely do that if left for extended periods of time unfortunately. If they weren't internally pipped it wouldn't be from drowning though. Did it look like there was a sort of sticky goo around the chicks?

I didn't break the membrane because they really stuck and I didn't want to make them stink more but there wasn't water in the air pocket if that's what you were talking about but when I like push the membrane it felt like a plastic bag filled with water and a chick inside

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I didn't break the membrane because they really stuck and I didn't want to make them stink more but there wasn't water in the air pocket if that's what you were talking about but when I like push the membrane it felt like a plastic bag filled with water and a chick inside

Ok that's more likely from decomposition starting then. Not from too high of humidity. I don't know. Did you have a secondary thermometer/hygrometer that was calibrated to check against what the readout on the incubator showed? (I'm sorry if I ever duplicate questions, sometimes I forget who I've talked to already, lol)

 

[LynnaePB]

Lost the smallest chick overnight, just the yellow one left alone. The ones under the broody haven't done anything upto now. I may buy some more big mini eggs after the weekend from someone else and join some of you on the March hatch along.

I'm so sorry about the little one.

I had no internal pips I was thinking for my next hatch I would do dry for incubation period and then for hatching get it up a bit

But when I was doing my testing before I put eggs in or water it was at 11% humidity and I'm not sure if that would be to dry or not

I was going to ask the same thing CluckNDoodle did as I couldn't remember if you mentioned if you had a hygrometer and thermometer that you had calibrated.

The 80-90% overnight might have killed them, does the janoel 12 have good ventilation? I know some incubators instruct you to close the vent more so during lockdown to raise humidity but I find that making sure there is plenty of ventilation is important so the chicks have plenty of oxygen. I always keep my vents all the way open throughout incubation including lockdown.

I'm really sorry this time didn't work out, I hope you are able to pin down the problem and have an excellent hatch next time!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I always keep my vents all the way open throughout incubation including lockdown.

I do this too, I would rather have better ventilation than higher humidity.

 

[My hen house]

decomposition

Sorry im not sure what that means

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Sorry im not sure what that means

It means what happens as they break down after passing away.

 

[My hen house]

I'm so sorry about the little one.



I was going to ask the same thing CluckNDoodle did as I couldn't remember if you mentioned if you had a hygrometer and thermometer that you had calibrated.

The 80-90% overnight might have killed them, does the janoel 12 have good ventilation? I know some incubators instruct you to close the vent more so during lockdown to raise humidity but I find that making sure there is plenty of ventilation is important so the chicks have plenty of oxygen. I always keep my vents all the way open throughout incubation including lockdown.

I'm really sorry this time didn't work out, I hope you are able to pin down the problem and have an excellent hatch next time!

It only has 1 hole on the top I'm not sure if that's enough but I never cover it

 

[My hen house]

It means what happens as they break down after passing away.

Oh

 

[My hen house]

Ok that's more likely from decomposition starting then. Not from too high of humidity. I don't know. Did you have a secondary thermometer/hygrometer that was calibrated to check against what the readout on the incubator showed? (I'm sorry if I ever duplicate questions, sometimes I forget who I've talked to already, lol)

No I don't have a second hydrometer meter so it's hard but I have multiple thermometers 1 for cooking(it was pretty expensive so my guess is that its accurate) 1 for the purpose of incubating chickens (it was on the cheap side from Amazon so I'm so it's more likely to be off)

 

[My hen house]

No I don't have a second hydrometer meter so it's hard but I have multiple thermometers 1 for cooking(it was pretty expensive so my guess is that its accurate) 1 for the purpose of incubating chickens (it was on the cheap side from Amazon so I'm so it's more likely to be off)

There's no hydrometer on the janoel 12 incubater that's why I got the 1 off Amazon