Idahomulelady
In the Brooder
- May 21, 2024
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Hey everyone, I read through the forums on here and I think I know what I should have done/should do but wanted to ask your opinions.
I have a farm innovator incubator. I do have 2 other thermometers hygrometers in there because I heard they weren’t accurate and they aren’t!
Out of 27 fertile eggs I had 17 that were growing well at day 10. I candled again on day 18 and had about 6 that I was confident had a growing chick and a couple more that were questionable that I left in at lockdown.
On evening of day 19 I had several eggs wiggling and one peeling although I couldn’t tell which egg was making noise.
Last night (day 20) I could still hear peeping but no external pips.
This morning (day 21) there have been no peeps, no wiggles and no external pips.
I’ll leave the incubator closed. I realize now maybe I should have helped the peeping chick by poking an air hole for it, but I didn’t know what egg it was without canceling them all and I didn’t want to loose humidity. My incubator is hard to get temp to stay consistent so I don’t like to open more than needed.
At this point I’m guessing I should just wait until 23 days or so , maintaining heat and humidity and then candle before discarding.
My temps in the incubator the first 18 days ranged from 98 for a couple of hours to 102 for a couple of hours and everywhere in between. I had to watch it like a hawk.
Humidity was around 35-50% first 18 days
At lockdown the temps been right at 99-101 with a humidity of 60-70%
I guess my question is, any hope any are alive? I’m assuming best thing is to just be patient and hope they make it. Thanks! I’m super bummed lol
I have a farm innovator incubator. I do have 2 other thermometers hygrometers in there because I heard they weren’t accurate and they aren’t!
Out of 27 fertile eggs I had 17 that were growing well at day 10. I candled again on day 18 and had about 6 that I was confident had a growing chick and a couple more that were questionable that I left in at lockdown.
On evening of day 19 I had several eggs wiggling and one peeling although I couldn’t tell which egg was making noise.
Last night (day 20) I could still hear peeping but no external pips.
This morning (day 21) there have been no peeps, no wiggles and no external pips.
I’ll leave the incubator closed. I realize now maybe I should have helped the peeping chick by poking an air hole for it, but I didn’t know what egg it was without canceling them all and I didn’t want to loose humidity. My incubator is hard to get temp to stay consistent so I don’t like to open more than needed.
At this point I’m guessing I should just wait until 23 days or so , maintaining heat and humidity and then candle before discarding.
My temps in the incubator the first 18 days ranged from 98 for a couple of hours to 102 for a couple of hours and everywhere in between. I had to watch it like a hawk.
Humidity was around 35-50% first 18 days
At lockdown the temps been right at 99-101 with a humidity of 60-70%
I guess my question is, any hope any are alive? I’m assuming best thing is to just be patient and hope they make it. Thanks! I’m super bummed lol
) and the membrane wasn’t dried out so idk what in the world went wrong! 
but I’m not hopefully honestly. 
