well as it says I am on day 17 of Chicken eggs. they were shipped and while air cells looked good at first they are now saddled and some are really bad...... I have a calibrated thermometer/hygrometer in there. I have an NR360 incubator. Temp has been an ave of 99.5 and humidity average of right around 45% but it would bounce up higher then lower. not sure if where it is more humid here but I had a harder time regulating it so barely put any water and it would jump to the low 50's but then as it was almost out it would be high 30 to low 40's but average showed around 45.......
where the air cells were saddled I didn't really pay attention to the size of those but instead weighed the eggs. Where they were shipped I couldn't weigh them till I got them so maybe that is throwing the % off? But I weighed them then, then again day 7, 12 (weight loss was good then with around 8-9%), and again today when I took the turner out... Well today some have the 11-14% weight loss but some are 15-18%...... Not sure if maybe I messed up weighing them or if my scale was off??? Or are the eggs that far off on some??? Is there anything that I can do now at day 17 to help fix it if that is true? Should I bump up humidity earlier than tomorrow afternoon? Day 18 starts at about 4pm tomorrow which is when I was going to bump humidity up.
I am freaking out a bit. I have not had much luck with shipped eggs..... first batch 2 hatched but weren't breed they should have been (12 shipped, 8 into incubator or under broody, 1 early quitter, 4 clear and 3 to lock down.... 2 hatched, 1 internally pipped, absorbed yolk and veins but then DIS). 2nd batch of shipped none developed........ then these eggs I got 16 from 1 seller and only 1 developed........ But then I got 12 from another seller and I have 10 going still. I am so worried that now they aren't going to hatch and I messed it up with them losing too much weight.......
where the air cells were saddled I didn't really pay attention to the size of those but instead weighed the eggs. Where they were shipped I couldn't weigh them till I got them so maybe that is throwing the % off? But I weighed them then, then again day 7, 12 (weight loss was good then with around 8-9%), and again today when I took the turner out... Well today some have the 11-14% weight loss but some are 15-18%...... Not sure if maybe I messed up weighing them or if my scale was off??? Or are the eggs that far off on some??? Is there anything that I can do now at day 17 to help fix it if that is true? Should I bump up humidity earlier than tomorrow afternoon? Day 18 starts at about 4pm tomorrow which is when I was going to bump humidity up.
I am freaking out a bit. I have not had much luck with shipped eggs..... first batch 2 hatched but weren't breed they should have been (12 shipped, 8 into incubator or under broody, 1 early quitter, 4 clear and 3 to lock down.... 2 hatched, 1 internally pipped, absorbed yolk and veins but then DIS). 2nd batch of shipped none developed........ then these eggs I got 16 from 1 seller and only 1 developed........ But then I got 12 from another seller and I have 10 going still. I am so worried that now they aren't going to hatch and I messed it up with them losing too much weight.......
