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Housing, Health & Hatching / IDEAL humidity for lockdown
« on: November 28, 2011, 10:22:52 PM »
Indi and Sophie.
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Housing, Health & Hatching / IDEAL humidity for lockdown
« on: November 28, 2011, 10:19:19 PM »
As an experiment, I brought 7 eggs home from Indianapolis to see if I could get them to hatch. They traveled over 12 hours to get there. They stayed in the vehicle for several days with weather dropping pretty low. They warmed back up on the 5 hour trip home. I set them the next day (Oct 31st) and hoped for the best. I like to keep the humidity around 45-50 for the first 18 days, (65-70 for the last 3 days) but twice I noticed the humidity had dropped to around 25-30 (my fault). On the morning of the 22nd day, a strong little blue Ameraucana had hatched from an egg that was dated 10-10. After a few more days, I broke the others open and found only yolks. Little “Indi” is now a week old and is thriving in my office with her/his pet moose and can hold her/his own with the family dog.