This is another question that pertains to my new post on Iowa Blues. I ordered 12 hatching eggs off of ebay. Only two hatched. I just went out and broke open the other 10 eggs and 8 had babies that were close to being fully formed. I have a hovabator forced air unit, automatic egg turner. As I live in the Northwest I did not add any water in the unit for humidity. During the incubation time our outside humidity was always around 50%. When I removed the eggs from the turner and placed them on the wire mesh I added water to bring up the humidity per what I had read I should do. I do not have any device to measure humidity. Also one day near the end I noticed that my incubator temp had fallen down to 97 degrees while I was at work.
What do you think I did wrong here? Too much humidity or did that day of lower temp do me in? I'm leaning towards too much humidity. What a disappointment to see so many chicks nearly formed and then have them not hatch
Thanks,
Randy
CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
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