[nuzuki]

I thought some of you might want to have a read of the following article.

http://dev.biologists.org/content/5/3/293.full.pdf

We have just had an incubator go faulty and due to this I stopped turning the eggs at about day 14. We managed to rig up a make shift heat source (light bulb in a jam jar) and have had 2 little chicks hatch so far out of 7 eggs. I found this interesting as there had been so many ups and downs with the incubation. Humidity was all over the place to begin with but managed to stabalize it at about 60% around day 18. Temps were up and down but managed to stablize around day 16.

Anyhow I thought id share this with you lot, maybe its useful to someone

[Tigerwren]

Hi Nuzuki,
I just had a read and found it very interesting, thank you. (I had to skim read a bit as my brain didn't get it all... but I was really interested in the points made and the differences in the studies done)

[GrannieAnnie]

Interesting article nuzuki.  Just to add to the interest.  We had very good hatchability during the 2 years we had our big incubator.  When it arrived from China, the instruction said that the general turning rate was every 2 hours, so that is how I set the incubator.

So it turned itself 12 times a day!

[nuzuki]

Thanks guys and gals. I found it interesting that they seem to think the most important time to turn the eggs is the first 6 days, after that it didnt make much difference in the hatch success rate.