Three weeks is flying by and it's time to go into lockdown for my egg incubation. This means we remove the automatic egg turner and place the eggs on the grate in the bottom of the incubator. We raise the humidity to 65-70% and WE DO NOT OPEN THE INCUBATOR unless there is an emergency and we wait for the hatch to begin! We also stepped down the temperature of the incubator to 99.5 deg F because as we approach lockdown, the chicks are making their own heat and the temperature of the eggs can rise to above 100 deg. Incubator temperature and humidity stabilization is so important going into lockdown. I had a huge problem with our previous incubator, the Amazon 56 egg incubator and it literally cooked my babies in the shell! I had the majority of my hatch die at the time of lockdown and I didn't even know it. I opened up those eggs after it was clear that they had passed away and I was appalled to find that they ALMOST made it but had overheated and perished right at the end. Tragic at that was, I am so stinkin excited to see how this hatch goes with the Farm Innovators 4250. It's going to be the best egg incubator yet. I am so please how well it maintains the temperature and humidity of our ours. So much so that after this hatch, I will be transferring our duck eggs from our borrowed incubator into the Farm Innovations one. It's just that good. And it's egg incubator fully automatic too. Follow us as we hatch this round and see the results. It's gonna be good!
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