You should not open incubator during hatching and leave the chicks to hatch naturally in their own time. The egg should lose between 11 and 13% of its mass during incubation so at 10 days if the egg have lost 5% of their weight then you are on the right track. If you are worried about the humidity in your incubator, weight the eggs before you set them and then weigh them again at 10 days. You do not need to spray chicken eggs with water in the incubator, this just causes wild fluctuations in humidity and temperature.īelow: A Japanese bantam chick. Having a stable humidity is more important than the actual value so if you can only get 50% but it is constant then it will be fine. This is a day before I would do with large fowl eggs. I have my humidity set at 55 to 60% during the fist 16 days and then raise it to 65% for hatching.Temperature should be 99.1 to 99.5☏ for forced air incubators and 101☏ for still air incubators.My incubator settings for Japanese bantam eggs are: Make sure your incubator is up and running for a full 24 hours before you set the eggs and allow the temperature and humidity to stabilise. ![]() Incubator settings for Japanese bantam eggs: Select eggs that are clean with good shells and candle the eggs you intend to set to make sure they contain a yolk.Įggs for hatching should be clean and be 1.4 times as long as they are wide. Japanese bantam eggs should hatch half to 1 day before large fowl eggs and they should not be mixed in the incubator. With birds, the smaller the egg the faster it tends to hatch and the same is true with bantams, the smaller eggs of the true bantams tend to hatch a day or so early.īelow: Japanese bantam chicks hatching my Rcom 20 incubator. It takes 20 to 21 days for Japanese bantam eggs to hatch. ![]() True bantam eggs need to be incubated and hatched on their sides. ![]() Hatching small eggs in an incubator requires you to make use of smaller egg rolling trays so as the eggs are not left in one position for too long or not turned properly.Īlso I have discovered that with Japanese bantam hatching eggs can't really use the egg turning trays that hold the eggs upright, they are too loose and the eggs rock back and forth rather than being turned gently.
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