Incubation Note for Strawberry Finch.

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Incubation Note for Strawberry Finch.

Post by shakil047 » Tue Apr 09, 2019 4:26 pm

My strawberry finch artificial incubation complete yesterday (Thursday March 28, 2017). Out of 6 fertile egg 2 chick hatch out :P . Anyway I broke 3 of the egg, they are unbelievably soft, one of them did't hatch out, probably due to too much handling, I open the lid 4 times a day. I should not do that. It is very difficult to feed newborn strawberry finch. You can suffocate them very easily.

Incubation Notes;
Temperature; 99.5 f
Humidity: 65 to 70% of first 11 days.

After 11 day I put them in busked with 75 % humidity and 99.5 f Temp.

after 4 days I Open the incubator and saw the tiny little things.
Now the are in brooder I mean still in incubator with 99.5 f and 85 % humidity. I will lower the humidity after 2 day at 60% and temp 2f down. I just want share My experience and keep the note what I did.
I will update.
Everything went very good. I keep them at 33 to 35 Celcious with 75% humidity. I read an article it said, when pin feathers appear they will tolerate 90 farenheight. so I think it is good time to put them out side the incubator , after 2nd day they died due to cold. At 13th day , which is today I lost them. I am really depressed.
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Re: Incubation Note for Strawberry Finch.

Post by Hilary » Fri Apr 26, 2019 9:03 pm

I'm so sorry that you lost them, though it's amazing that you got them to 13 days! Your notes will certainly be helpful for anybody else who needs to try artificial incubation, and now you know what works and what doesn't if you need to do it again.
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Re: Incubation Note for Strawberry Finch.

Post by shakil047 » Sun Apr 28, 2019 1:04 am

Another person in facebook gave me some information about temperature and humidity, That is;
"101.2 degrees Fahrenheit at 65% humidity so easy to break these tiny fragile eggs"

I will update those information. Here some more pictures .
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Post by Sally » Sun May 12, 2019 1:02 am

So sorry you lost them, but I give you credit for trying. It is extremely difficult to hand feed these tiny waxbills. It is easier to hand feed some of the larger species, I think, and the little waxbills are much easier to aspirate. I tried incubating eggs a few times, but I also lost the babies, so I think that incubated eggs/babies are even harder than trying to raise babies that the parents incubated but then wouldn't feed.
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Re: Incubation Note for Strawberry Finch.

Post by lovezebs » Sun Oct 27, 2019 1:37 pm

shakil047

How are the infants doing?

Just a quick question.
Were these eggs tossed, or did the parents abandon the nest?
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