Setting eggs 6/11 and 7/4 - Join me! - Page 10

*ties my own hands down and out of my incubator* 

Why? Candling fever. I need to NOT candle again till oh.... Friday. No, Thursday. That'd be day 8. I candled a couple of my eggies just a moment ago and the first looked awesome..all veiny and pretty. The second one gave me a bad feeling..."awww that one quit early" I thought. Then it did a little mamba in there...as if to say "no, watch me shake my tail feathers... or what will BE my tail feathers!!' I took paws off and just turned the rest. Someone sit on my hands for me. 

They are looking good though... I am THRILLED. Just very very little kid-like in my candling zeal

Welcome Winkler! And don't worry, you aren't behind :) I haven't even set my second batch of eggs yet, so the fun shall last a long time!

DD- I ended up buying a Little Giant one from TSC near my house... but I really didn't like it. The bottom is about an inch tall >:| No room for peachicks or turkeys to stand! The bottom also didn't fit my hovabator turner (what the heck guys, the incubators are practically the same size, cut us some slack... the turner was 1/4 an inch too big to fit). So, instead of buying a new turner... I set the top of the LG bator on top of the bottom of my hovabator bator and made sure it could hold temp. So far, it's doing better than my hovabator used to, and if the seal isn't exact, there's a little more airflow. *shrug* We'll see how it works in less than 2 weeks!

I did candle 3 of the button quail eggs last night (because light knows I can't keep my paws out of the incubator). I went for the lightest of the eggs (since their shells are so dark) and I think I could see the dark forming along the sides as the membranes thicken :D So at least something is growing in a few of them. Commence more waiting!

Also- does anyone here know why I am not getting any subscription or PM emails? This ever happened to anyone? Tried unsub and resubbing to threads and changing my PM  preferences back and forth... but no luck. Checked spam to make sure they were not being misdirected... spam folder is clean and empty. What gives?

Aschen- I'd sit on your hands for you, but I am busy sitting on my own!! It's really hard to stay out in the early days because you just want to know so badly what is going on inside those little shells. Did life start? Were they fertile? Did they quit? Is one of them becoming a danger to the others because it's gonna explode? I can't start asking myself those questions because then I get nosy around the incubator!

DD- I'd leave it in and check in a couple days (2-3 days, if it's gone bad 4-5 may be too many). The jolt probably did worse for it than the crack, especially since you probably sealed it ASAP, so check to see if the air sac is intact in the large end of the egg and doesn't wiggle around.

Finally heard from the person sending my peafowl eggs... the birds have started laying again, so hopefully they get shipped within a week. Looks like you guys get company for long than you thought!