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Re: Dry Hatching

Post by mucm » Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:09 am

I'm a first timer incubating eggs here. What is "lockdown" that I'm reading above? I'm guessing a few days before hatch, you stop opening the lid, stop turning the eggs, etc?
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Re: Dry Hatching

Post by Ontario Chick » Sat Mar 14, 2020 9:24 am

There is a good "sticky" under Incubating and Hatching, that has all the basic points on Incubating.
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Re: Dry Hatching

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Re: Dry Hatching

Post by windwalkingwolf » Mon Mar 16, 2020 2:42 pm

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I would never have it at 60 for hatching 55 is as high as I would go. Splayed legs I only get if I left them on a slippery surface, in the incubator I put paper towels under the ones ready to hatch.
35-45 to start, as high as 55 to hatch, I don't worry about the humidity staying constant, it is what it is but I do like it a little higher around 45-55 at hatch.
55 is as high as I'm comfortable with too. I start to get nervous when ambient humidity stays that high, because I know too many days of that much and I will get some "wet" chicks, and even ducklings and goslings. Come hatch time, If the incubator only has a few eggs in it, 55 is fine, but if it's full, 55 is way too wet once they start pipping.
We almost always have a kettle on the stove, so our house rarely goes below 35 % RH, and in summer it's a struggle sometimes to keep it under 55, but between 35 and 54 start to finish gives me the best results, personally.
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Re: Dry Hatching

Post by Kbr42 » Fri Mar 20, 2020 10:43 am

windwalkingwolf wrote:
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kenya wrote:
Sun Feb 09, 2020 4:16 pm
I would never have it at 60 for hatching 55 is as high as I would go. Splayed legs I only get if I left them on a slippery surface, in the incubator I put paper towels under the ones ready to hatch.
35-45 to start, as high as 55 to hatch, I don't worry about the humidity staying constant, it is what it is but I do like it a little higher around 45-55 at hatch.
Hmmm, I've been playing around a bit with this humidity during 0-18 it stays anywhere from 40-50.

55 is as high as I'm comfortable with too. I start to get nervous when ambient humidity stays that high, because I know too many days of that much and I will get some "wet" chicks, and even ducklings and goslings. Come hatch time, If the incubator only has a few eggs in it, 55 is fine, but if it's full, 55 is way too wet once they start pipping.
We almost always have a kettle on the stove, so our house rarely goes below 35 % RH, and in summer it's a struggle sometimes to keep it under 55, but between 35 and 54 start to finish gives me the best results, personally.
My last hatch, I had a little one unzip 3/4 of the way around then stop..it got shrink wrapped cause it not be able to move. I thought it was ok, and did act soon enough. The humidity was 60% . Probably too close to the fan...still. i had a couple of chicks, fail to internally pip. They seemed not too wet. they did have saddle bag air sacs. I should mention they were upright in egg cartons. Anyway, I left 5 in the shell, sadly,. Hatched 6. Still trying to figure out the best way to hatch shipped eggs.
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Re: Dry Hatching

Post by Killerbunny » Fri Mar 20, 2020 11:23 am

I think that would be a shipping issue not a hatching issue, really not bad for shipped eggs. Sound like the air saca were slightly displaced and as the chick grew the sac was split. I assume you leave to settle for 24 hours?
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Re: Dry Hatching

Post by kenya » Fri Mar 20, 2020 3:27 pm

I don't like the egg carton method one bit, I found they pipped at the wrong end and had difficulty getting out of the egg. Old fashioned lying on their side works best for me.
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Re: Dry Hatching

Post by Kbr42 » Fri Mar 20, 2020 3:29 pm

Killerbunny wrote:
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I think that would be a shipping issue not a hatching issue, really not bad for shipped eggs. Sound like the air saca were slightly displaced and as the chick grew the sac was split. I assume you leave to settle for 24 hours?
Yes, 24 hours and I didn't touch the eggs for 4 days. Then only slightly turned them 2x. No trouble with development..trouble getting out of the shell.
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Re: Dry Hatching

Post by Kbr42 » Fri Mar 20, 2020 3:36 pm

kenya wrote:
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I don't like the egg carton method one bit, I found they pipped at the wrong end and had difficulty getting out of the egg. Old fashioned lying on their side works best for me.
So, in general I'm totally with you on this. My issue is what to do at lockdown with shipped eggs. I incubate in egg cartons to help with trying to settle the air sacs. Then what, lay them down for lockdown? I was acutally considering using the actual egg turner egg trays by themselves. They are a little bigger than egg cartons and I can sort of tilt them over but still have them up a little - any thoughts on that idea? It would be good to figure out..I have a lockdown on Monday :wave:
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Re: Dry Hatching

Post by kenya » Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:40 pm

I would put them on their side for lockdown.
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