INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

My thermostat comes in Wednesday and then I will have everything I need to make a coolerbator!!!

Busy day, and busy day tomorrow (gotta finish that coop, as my Sweetie - the Naked neck in my avatar - just laid her first egg at 20 weeks). I'm giving up on catching up - hope I didn't miss too much chicken-related stuff.

Anyhow, just wanted to report that after a day resting, I set the shipped eggs in the incubator this evening - upright (fat end up), no turning. Temp is good (99.5), humidity at 40%. I read the shipped egg section but could I get some additional advice on how to decide to start turning after 24-36 hours, vs. incubating upright the whole time? There's been advice on here to "not touch the eggs, leave them alone" until day seven, but the Hatching 101 guide indicates that you should check the air cells after a day or two to decide whether to start turning them, and that turning is important even in shipped eggs (depending on the air cell), so I was a little confused. Because I'm using the Brinsea Octagon, it will be hard to turn some but not others, though I suppose I could try by hand.

Advice?

@Sally Sunshine (or others)

- Ant Farm

LocalYokel said:

  [COLOR=0000FF]AND YET YOU HAVE NO MIRRORS IN YER HOUSE SO YOU DONT HAVE TO DEBATE THE INSANE[/COLOR]

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Exactly

kwhites634 said:

Y

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Y is a cat

LocalYokel said:

Liability.

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Thats not a very nice thing to say about them

kwhites634 said:

Y

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Y is a SHORN cat!

LocalYokel said:

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I see you are laughing it up over here..head over the Hatch A Long..you won't be laughing. THE sign has been won. I'll just go ahead and give you a hug here.

Sassyhens1 said:

I am finding some weird comfort posting here..... Candled all the maran eggs. Feeling defeated BUT I think the stats are 1 bloodring 2 Yolkers and 39 goodens? I think. However I could be totally wrong and have no clue what I am doing!!! On the good side the humidity is down a bit. Took the plugs out. My led flashlight was less than helpful tonight. I think a burbon is in order.....lol

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Nice!
On the many goodens!

I see I didn't miss much...

HeatherMarieR said:

I'm back! If this little Call duck make it (I don't want to jinx it), should I give it Corid or something to prevent cocci? I've never done this with my chicks, but it was suggested recently, and I wondered if I should do it with this duckling.

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@RavynFallen