First timer - starting my first batch Sept 15 - Page 7

Aw wish i could but i can only get on with my phone.No internet at home and cant get back on at my sisters my BIL blames me for a virus so ive been banned. Sorry

Has anyone notice how slow time goes when the incubator is running?  It's only been a few days for me and it seems like FOREVER!

 

Just found this thread, but I have my second ever incubator batch that I put in on the 15th of Sept...so can I join in?  I have 12 d'Anver eggs in a Hovabator circulated air incubator.  I just hatched my first ever batch on the 19th, and I have duck eggs that just went on lockdown today in my second incubator. -excited-

 

The first batch:

I just candled a few of my eggs on day 5 (or is it 6?) and I see small spots and viens!  I just looked at about five and it looks like four were developing.  Once they turn real dark I'll make the call to toss the clear ones out.  I'm getting excited!

Just candled and it looks like 10 out of 12 eggs have some sort of development.  Yippee!  Here is the odd thing though, they seem farther along than they should be.  With the last batch when I candled between day 5 and 7, I only saw veining and a bit of embryo forming.  These eggs seem to have much more going on with them.  It seems like a much more developed, dark body in there.

I candled by ducks today before putting them in lockdown and I have one who had an internal pip.  They are all wobbling around in the incubator.  Perhaps they are going to hatch early. 

Just candelled and threw away 11 of the shipped eggs...I do not think they were fertile..well 9 were not , 2 blood rings,2 definite develong and 3 not looking good...I have always had amazing success with shipped eggs until now...and I have two of my own eggs in there and they are doing fine... Bummer...

Well I think i am going to put those left under a the broody downstairs and collect a weeks batch of my own silkie eggs and start again...

 

Developing faster than usual may mean that your humidity is too high to start with.  It should be around 45%, do you have something to measure the humidity with?  I've heard you can run into problems down the road if your humidity is too high and they grow too fast in the shell.

We candled yesterday too!  We discarded 9 eggs that either had bloodrings or were 'clear', left 10 that we weren't sure about, which gave us a total of 13 eggs that had definate veining going on!  :)  I'm SUPER excited about that!  I went through and color-coded my chart  so that the discards are now in red, the good ones are in green, and the questionable ones are in yellow.  I'm hoping a few of those surprise us.  A majority of the 'unsure' ones are EE eggs and they were just REALLY hard to see into.  When we set our last set of eggs we had 3 marans eggs that I couldn't really see anything in, except they get big dark spots in them at the end, and one of them hatched (the other 2 died in the shell for whatever reason).  I'm more than willing to let those eggs sit longer!

 

I went over and helped BIL candle his eggs as well.  He had a few that had oozed something, and man oh man was one of them STINKY!  UGH!  I have a head cold and I could smell the sulphur coming through the pores!  We had more eggs than would fit in our incubator, so he had 6 of our EE and 6 of our BBSWandottes in his as well.  I didn't include those in our numbers.

 

Where I stand:

BLRW: 1 looks good, 2 look questionable (probably 'clear') out of 8 set

EE: 5 look good, 6 look questionable out of 12 set

BBSW: 7 look good, 2 look questionable (probably 'clear') out of 12 set.

 

I'm at 40% so far! Come on litte eggs!