Incubation Note for Strawberry Finch.
Posted: 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 . 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.
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.