Well, after 72 days I decided it was time to pull the clutch. There were issues with the humidity early on, and I’ll note, this has a lot to do with my incubator by design, the air circulates very evenly through the incubation chamber but without being sealed, allowed too much air into the box at the rate it circulates without press and seal. Around day 16 or so I noticed a considerable dimple in some of the eggs, and a lack of condensation in the media below, so I added the press and seal but I believe the media lost too much moisture before I attended to it by then. I added water to the media a week or so later, after setting up a dummy box with a thermometer/hygrometer, after noticing the difference in condensation in the media at the bottom of the dummy box while at ~65% humidity, after just under a week. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to maintain this clutch and lost all 6 eggs, and the box was overtaken by mites towards the end. I’ve cleaned the incubator out and eradicated the mites, and I’ll be setting up another incubation box like the dummy for the next clutch. This one will get filed under “The Ugly” but it’s a good learning experience, for me and anyone interested in looking at this.
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