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Quote:I like that. I believe I will start using that as my new pet name for Robo.


(feathers are different too ya know.
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Cknldy said:
I know how you feel on that one! Humidity issues frustrate the daylights out of me! I've tried keeping the humidity close to 75 the entire lockdown this hatch and it is hard to do. Then I read the comment of even little drops back to 70 drying the egg/membrane enough to keep them from being able to pip or turn while zipping...yep, someone just told me exactly why one chick suffocated while zipping. 8 chicks hatched fine. 17 (yes,17!) look to be non-hatchers cuz of humidity issues. I've never had this bad of a hatch rate for my own eggs! Turned off the bator to listen for life yesterday afternoon, was tapping a second egg and getting no sounds when loud cheeping from a group still in the bator made me scramble to get it back on and up the humidity again! No progress this a.m. so I probably finished it off checking them:-( So not right to know there was life in there and I snuffed it. Is there an incubator that regulates humidity itself but holds more than 20 eggs?
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My humidity is never anywhere near that high. Mine is between 50-60, but usually right in between.

Why day are you on? Are you opening the bator when you check them?
 
And I just use two LG styrofoam still airs. Nothing fancy. The hatcher gave me fits last weekend with leaking, but this weekend I rigged a way to not use the channels and it's fine.
 
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I had shut off the bator when the first 8 that hatched the day before were put in the brooder. past experience for me is that what will hatch healthy hatch around the same few hours. Usually nothing else comes a day after even though I give it time. In the past I've had great success with dry incubating until lockdown then raising humidity to 60%...that was until the last couple of incubations of last year. The chicks had problems with the membrane drying before they got out or either they didn't zip all the way before trying to push out so I figured I'd try keeping the humidity around 70 until the first one hatched, keep it around 75 after that instead of letting it fluctuate after each chick hatches. Eggtopsied this morning cuz no progress or noises anymore, day 23. Here's what I got: a few not positioned for hatch when died, a couple of those with internal pips. 1 With blood filled liquid around it- pipped into vein? 1 dark almost black liquid around it. 2 like the pic one in the pic on the right, most like the one on the left. 2 chicks were so big they filled the entire egg with no air cell- those are the ones I heard yesterday when checking eggs. One of those ripped the membrane with its hind end, the other had internally pipped but there was no air cell for it to continue to breathe until externally pipping! Question: Is the one on the left or the one on the right or both considered shrink wrapped? All developed great so lockdown is my problem obviously.
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I've seen in a few videos and how-it's -done shows that some hatcheries have machines that punch air holes in the air cell area before going into the hatchers to ensure better hatch rates. I question how that works because humidity must stay just right to keep them from drying out!?!
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If you are assuming all is lost, what have you got to lose by helping at this point? At least emergency air holes.
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