Quote Originally Posted by bad-one View Post
Congrats!!! I hope these eggs hatch out for you, breeding cresties is incredibly fun!

Btw, at those temps you are looking more at 70-90 days
(53 was my earliest and that was incubating at 80-83*F)
Quote Originally Posted by mlededee View Post
Woohoo! Congrats. Typical incubation times start at 60 days and go up depending on your temps--you definitely don't want your cresteds hatching at 30 days. I usually wait a few days before candling freshly laid eggs. You can't always see the pink cheerio right after they are laid, but it should become very clear within the first week. Good luck!
haha thanks for the replies!

I typed the 30 days and then went back and looked at my literature and found that was totally wrong. The temps in my empty rack space seem to be holding at 74.4-76.4 i could test closer to the heat tape but i'd rather they take longer to hatch and be bigger than hatch faster with smaller babies.

Thank you so much for the incubation info I'll mark 80 days down on the tub.

When she lays her next clutch, do you guys put it in the same egg box as the older eggs or use a new one? I worry about the newer eggs hatching and then the babies rolling the newer eggs or something as they explore the box.