[chooknewbie]

how do everyone...

I have got some patrick eggies in my octagon 10 incy...so very precious cargo..(very big thankyou to Kate)!!

I am having problems with the humidity.. i have done everything i can think of to increase it but now I am not sure if it is my hygrometer thats the problem!! there is now way it wants to go up to 80 % and thats with both troughs filled, a wick in there to increase the surface area and an additional pot of water!!

I opened the incy to candle the eggs last night, and I couldnt get the egg tray out!! I think it must have swelled... (I had to take out two eggs which were cracked the other day. I assumed I had missed the cracks on initial inspection after their arrival in the post    but carried on all ok)... I finally got the tray out after having to take all the eggs out in order to yank the tray out (got water everywhere!!)...the egg divider was pushed up out of its slots!! After some choice words I candled the eggs (most seem to be doing a great job) and then found another that has cracked! its like there is too much pressure in there through swelling and it has forced the eggs to press against each other and crack?

I have taken all the extra water out, put the remaining 6 eggs in with some dry sponges to stop the eggs moving about as I didnt want to put the divider back in again.

I have checked the hygrometer this morning and it is reading less than 40%... I havent tried to get the tray out as yet as dont want to keep disturbing the eggs...

any suggestions?? anyone else had any problems like this???  :blink:

Sorry its such a long post

[Foxy]

How many days have they been in? what humidity are you trying to reach, 80% sounds a bit high.

[Vember]

Sounds very high to me too  would have thought somewhere between 50/60% would have been better. Only needs to be increased 3/4 days before hatch when you need 75 "ish" % .

Sarah

[chooknewbie]

blimey i am confused now but very happy!! read on a website that it had to be about 80% up until day 26 and then increase to 92%... i will go see if i can find the site...

[chooknewbie]

what a muppet am i... i have just kept reading after the chart that states the humidity etc... it does indeed say 86 up to day 26 and the 94 for hatching... but thats on a WET BULB.....grrr.... how much damage have i done?   they are day 6, but have never been above 70%.... couldnt get it to budge past it...thankfully...

at least i know that i can do 50-60 %!!! 

see what happens when you try and be independant and not ask the same ole questions that everyone else has asked!! ya screw it up!!

[Foxy]

Dont worry chooknewbie, and never be afraid to ask the old questions again!
At day 6 you should be OK as long as the temp has been stable. Humidity is critical the second half of development anyway.
Good luck!

[chooknewbie]

phew....temp has been good... dips occasionally but never really low...but i am checking it so often that any change and it is soon sorted!!  who, me, obsessed...never...lol

I remember a post a while back Foxy, cant remember who it was from, about being bored of reading the same old questions... i do try and consider the other users of the forum, and I feel like I am always buggin Sarah and Kate... (they are such sweeties and would NEVER agree with that) but even so... ya dont like to keep buggin peeps...

anways... fingers crossed it hasnt done too much damage, i am just so miffed that I have lost 3 eggs cos of it...

[Foxy]

This forum wouldn't work if we all had that atitude! Anyway, those peeps who asked those questions last year are helping others this year answer those very same questions!!!!

umm did that make sense???

[matilda duck]

Here here!!!

Nobody knows all the answers!!!  And if we all knew the answers then no forum like Foxy says  
How can anyone be bored with the same questions???  At the end of the day, they all apply to us all at some point???  Goodness i'd be lost without coming on here for all my questions.....

Good luck with your Patrick babies.

[chooknewbie]

thank you :-) and it makes perfect sense foxy...*S*... i do find myself knowing how to advise peeps more and more, although i do refreign from doing so... always something at that back of my mind telling me to keep it zipped just in case i am wrong...lol.... so full of self confidence i could burst...lol...

[Kate and her Ducks]

Never worry about asking me questions and I don't think Sarah would disagree with me for a second that we would rather aanyone asked questions. I still owe you a huge favour for finding a home and friend for Gerry,

Have you candled the eggs? do you have viable embryos?

[chooknewbie]

hiya Kate,

I have candled and I think i have a def 5 that have taken so far...just waiting on the last one. today is day 7 so i will candle again tonight and see whats happening. Am i right in thinking that today would be the day to start spraying with water?