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Re: Egg dimpled. Help...
I am not sure i read it right, but I would say 94 for the eggs is a little hot. The eggs should be 91 or even a little lower. Different people use different temps but 94 is a few degrees to hot. Try press and seal over the egg tub and then put the lid on it. I suspend my eggs from the medium so i can get the medium as wet as i want. I do not use the press and seal but a lot of folks on this forum sware by it.
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Re: Egg dimpled. Help...
yea it looks like the top egg is just a dimpled..since the other eggs are not I'd keep an eye on that one..
I'd have to agree that 94 in the egg box sounds a little hot for my taste. Although I have had a temp up to 92 and been fine. Just keep an eye on them..
the other thing to thing about might be using a bigger egg box..More substrate means more humidity.
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Re: Egg dimpled. Help...
Your developing eggs will make heat. I think they will be fine but dropping temp a couple degrees is advisable.
The pic shows me that the dimpling isn't that bad. Someone else mentioned caving in. I have had a couple eggs cave in and not hatch/ one was infertile and i think the other was fertile. I don't think you'll have that problem.
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Re: Egg dimpled. Help...
94 is far too hot in my opinion. I don't go above 90 ever. This year I am incubating at 88. If you mix vermiculite correctly and seal the egg box then you shouldn't need to add any water for the entire incubation period. I believe a 6qt tub is a little small for incubating. I use 18 qt tubs. More medium, more stable temps, more humidity. Good luck!
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Re: Egg dimpled. Help...
I had the same thing happen with my first clutch last summer. The other eggs looked fine, but the egg stuck on top was dimpling. I cut the paper towel like you said and just rewet it every 2 days or so. The baby hatched fine. The egg remained dimpled for the rest of incubation. At the very least I would keep putting the paper towel on the one egg.
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Re: Egg dimpled. Help...
 Originally Posted by PigsnPythons
I had the same thing happen with my first clutch last summer. The other eggs looked fine, but the egg stuck on top was dimpling. I cut the paper towel like you said and just rewet it every 2 days or so. The baby hatched fine. The egg remained dimpled for the rest of incubation. At the very least I would keep putting the paper towel on the one egg.
The only problem with the wet paper towel on the egg, is that it doesn't allow the egg to breath.
I keep my thermostat probe inside one of the egg boxes (per Kevin McCurley's method), and I incubate at 89, and the eggs are at 89. I agree with others that I'd be very concerned with eggs reading 94 degrees.
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Re: Egg dimpled. Help...
Like others have mentioned 94 is way too hot. Now that it is summer I have turned my incubator down to 87.5 to allow for heating up during the day. Short spikes of 94 are OK but continually being that high is too hot.
Are you egg tubs sealed? If you keep the egg box air tight the humidity should remain constant through out the box. Eggs shouldnt dimple much until that last couple of weeks of incubation.
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Re: Egg dimpled. Help...
Yea, yesterday was the first time I checked the temps in the tub and eggs. I didn't know the temps would get so high in the tub, so I lowered the temps to 88 in the incubator. Only reason I'm using a small tub is because I have them in a hovabator and there's not a lot of room in there for a bigger tub.
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Re: Egg dimpled. Help...
Are you using a thermostat other than the one that came with the hovabator?
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Re: Egg dimpled. Help...
 Originally Posted by rabernet
Are you using a thermostat other than the one that came with the hovabator?
No. I have no need too. My temps stay at what I set them at. Sometimes they fluctuate a degree or two, but barely ever.
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