African Grey incubation questions, 5 eggs!

[MotleyCrue]

Hi. I have 5 freshly layed African Grey eggs in my Brinsea Octogon 20 Advance incubator. I need to know what humidity level this should be set to. The breeder I got the eggs from says 65%, however the Brinsea manual says 35-45% for this type of bird. I currently have the incubator at 98.7° and 65% humidity.

What exactly should I set the humidity to? Also, should I use the egg rotation apparatus that came with the incubator? Do I need to also turn the eggs by hand every day? Any help is appreciated!

 

[texsize]

I don't have the information you are asking for but....

Everything I have read on this forum tells me no reputable breeder sells un-weaned babies or fertile eggs.
I am sure more members will have more um pointed things to say about this.
I hope you did not get scammed and I hope you know how to care for baby parrots from day 1.
texsize

 

[Anansi]

The sale of fertile parrot eggs is virtually always a scam. Texsize is right. No reputable breeder would've sold fertile eggs to anyone, let alone someone who doesn't have any experience with eggs. I hope this works out for you, but to be honest I doubt any of the eggs will hatch.

 

[EllenD]

Oh my, I'm so sorry this happened to you, I have done work with rescues that specialize in stopping the exportation of wild parrots as well as fertile eggs. That being said, something like 95% of parrot eggs sold that are supposedly fertile are not, whether they are from another country or from a company/breeder that is supposed to be based here in the U.S. It's the perfect scam, because when they don't hatch and you call this "breeder" up to try and get your money back, they are just going to tell you that #1 read the fine print, and #2 there is no way for them to guarantee that the eggs will hatch even if they are fertile. Any number of things can stop them from hatching, and they will no doubt blame it on you not having a clue what you're doing. Either way, if even one of those eggs hatch I'd be very, very shocked. Unless you bought them from a breeder that you know personally and that is local to you that just didn't want babies, but if you bought them from anywhere online they are not going to hatch...And I suppose you bought an incubator too? Ouch.

If on the off chance one you get a miracle of God and one of these eggs does happen to hatch, do you have any idea what you're doing as far as hand-feeding them? Do you have brooders? Are you knowledgeable in all of the million things that can go wrong once a chick is born, like slow crop, crop stasis, yeast and bacterial infections, chicks not gaining weight, and on and on and on? My guess is no since you don't even know what the incubator settings should be, lol. You don't even have parents to let raise the birds in this little enterprise you have going, not that I think you'll have a problem.


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