First Time Egg Candler Scared!

[AmyLynn2374]

There are other issues that low/high humidity causes in regards to the chick themselves. Those, are what I have found through researching the topic are the basic "hatching" issues in regards to humidity.

 

[Mommaw]

I'd like to know Amy mythology of incubating. I obviously did not get a good incubator for the first time, a still air, and it is hard to regulate the temperature and humidity. Again, first time in bator and I bought the expensive eggs from EBay. You learn the hard way. I do...the only one to hatch was one of mine. Didn't understand why the others I bought didn't hatch. Almost but something happened at lock down...sad....Would love to hear what I am doing incorrectly...I have three thermometers and two hydrometers. All say something different...sad again..

 

[Mommaw]

There are other issues that low/high humidity causes in regards to the chick themselves. Those, are what I have found through researching the topic are the basic "hatching" issues in regards to humidity.

I wish I knew what you know and more than I thought I knew when I bought my bator and what went wrong with my first hatch....

 

[deemcreynolds]

What happens if the eggs cool while your doing candling?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

What happens if the eggs cool while your doing candling?

Nothing. Actually the cooling of the eggs mimic the naturally cooling period that eggs under a broody get when momma goes for a stroll to eat and well....girly stuff...

Actually some of your higher end incubators (Brinsea for one) is including a cool off period that you can set so that your incubator will automatically cool down each day. Of course, it should be kept to a minimum. I was always told keep it to a half hour.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I wish I knew what you know and more than I thought I knew when I bought my bator and what went wrong with my first hatch....

I wsh I did before my first hatch too.

I lost all but one chick in my first hatch because I relied on a brand new thermometer and didn't check it. It ended up being way off. A lessoned I learned the hard way. After that I armed myself with three thermometers and did a lot of research and found the low humidity incubation resources (dry method). I tweaked it to work for me and been using it ever since. My methodology can be found here: http://letsraisechickens.weebly.com...anuals-understanding-and-controlling-humidity

I feel the most important thing (next to having an incubator that will hold a steady temp) is accurate gages and monitoring air cells to know if your humidity is accurate.
The blog still has much to cover in the whole, but I am especially delighted with how the humidity post turned out.

 

[Mommaw]

This is the "best" thread I've read so far. Easy questions, wonderful insight and answers...just a joy to read and learn...thank you so much...

 

[Mommaw]

Thanks Amy. Should I wait until day 14 to throw out the browns? Should I toss the yellow eggs now? I purchased them all and I thought that many of them were porous.

The SLWs are from someone that does not sell eggs though in his defense. He typically only sells chicks and I asked him for some eggs. SLW eggs for $1 a piece isn't too bad.

The BLRs on the other hand have a lot of porous eggs and they were $35 for the eggs.

What are BLR's? and the other as well? I too paid $35 for 12 eggs and $15 shipping to have none hatch. My fault, first hatch.

 

[lrus5]

Ok thank you, I am so glad this is how it should look! Thought I spent almost $300 for no chicks. Thanks 

i just buy grocery store eggs and hatch them

 

[lrus5]