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We are going to be incubating 6 Dewlap Toulouse Geese eggs again, we have recently incubated 6 of these Dewlap Toulouse and 8 Embden of two bloodlines. Out of the 14 eggs we had only 3 hatch and these hatched early, the Dewlap Toulouse has turned out to be a Toulouse X Embden and we had 2 Embden hatch.
The eggs that were not infertile all had chicks at various stages of development dead in the shell.
The incubator we use is a R-Com. it has auto turning via the tray at the bottom sliding from each side. We set the temperature at 37.7 then down to 37.2 and the humidity was set at 50% up to 62%. The eggs were turned every hour. Some of the eggs were turned manually 3 times a day as they were not turning but all the others were turning.
Is there something we are doing wrong? Are the temperature and humidity correct? Should we be cooling the eggs for 15minms a day and then spritzing with water before placing the lid back on the incubator?
I really don't want to end up with a low hatch rate again.
The eggs that were not infertile all had chicks at various stages of development dead in the shell.
The incubator we use is a R-Com. it has auto turning via the tray at the bottom sliding from each side. We set the temperature at 37.7 then down to 37.2 and the humidity was set at 50% up to 62%. The eggs were turned every hour. Some of the eggs were turned manually 3 times a day as they were not turning but all the others were turning.
Is there something we are doing wrong? Are the temperature and humidity correct? Should we be cooling the eggs for 15minms a day and then spritzing with water before placing the lid back on the incubator?
I really don't want to end up with a low hatch rate again.