help with candling please :)

[c0urtmarie]

Hello I'm new to the incubating process and I candled my eggs last night and this is what I saw! Is this good or bad at 3 days?

This is my most vibrant one!

Then I have these!

Any help would be appreciated! Ty!

 

[The Colonel]

Don't open the bator it makes the humidity fall, you want to keep the humidity stable.

X2 NEVER open your incubator during lockdown
checking on one isn't worth losing the rest of them in my opinion.

 

[Lacrystol]

I locked down yesterday after I got the humidity right and temp. 1 egg moved in the bator a bit yesterday. I wonder if he started internally pipping?? Another kind of moved the egg. 2 haven't moved. I don't know when they start internally piping and I can't open to look right? Or is it ok to open as long as they haven't externally pipped?

Why do you need to open it to look at them? Sounds like they aren't ready to see you yet....If they just went into lock down then there's really no need for you to do anything. Even if they internally pipped why do you need to know, it's not even there due date yet...

I Mean they will not be shy about letting you know WHERE COMING!!!

Your on there schedule not yours. And right now There most important job is to decide what to wear, comb there fur, put on there make up, prep, prep prep, so that when they do pop out, you'll be impressed with them. So when they are done fixing themselves up, they will most definitely let you know.

Your best bet is to. SIT ON THOSE HANDS. they don't need you right now, they are going to torment you for a while but once they are done. SURPRISE!!!

 

[Lacrystol]

I know that you guys do the whole lockdown but I don't and never have done that. I know that what you guys are saying but I always put eggs in the moment they are layed. I've gotten all of my eggs to hatch. I just don't spend much time and I don't have anything to measure the humidity with. I turn the eggs until the chick begins hatching then I don't touch them but I watch. Ducklings have a harder time since the have a bill instead of a beak. So where it might take a chicken maybe 16 hours a duckling I've had would go for more than 24 hours. I don't help until after the 24 hour mark and if there is a crack in the eggshell. I never remove the duckling from the egg; the duckling must push itself out or must hope gravity can have it fall out.

Although most of what you say is true about lock down, I bleieve we use it as a tool for us to leave the eggs alone, as you can see in this persons post, they are getting what I call ansty. When people get ansty mistakes and deaths will occur. So the best advice anyone can give is to LEAVE THE EGGS ALONE.

It's not even there due date and yet they want to open the bator to see for internally pip! Why I ask? Even I they have what's next to help them out. NOOOOO...

SO I think the best advice just leave them alone when they are ready they are ready. Evenyhing should be based on there schedule not ours...

 

[Lacrystol]

Omg they are adorable!!!!!
@lacrystol I only have the one egg that's still going the rest didn't make it in the early stages not sure why my little trooper moved a little today though when I checked him. He seems a little on the small side lol!

ONE EGG! Oh man that sounds horrible, were they shipped eggs?

 

[Lacrystol]

dont you freak out on me!!!! Remember your on his time not yours, they have a lot of preping to do before they come out. Right now he's probably trying to figure out how the heck to put on a tie. Those things can be soooo complicating...

Take a breather he'll be fine just hang in there. Don't bother him, keep that BATOR closed.

He heard out about you and now HES thinking ok I'm gonna let this man stress for a while then maybe I'll come out let's see how far I can push him. Lol

Now tomorrow let me know if we have that safe hole.. If hes made a crack then your ok...if not will make him a little safe hole but let's make sure we have his due date correct. He was due 12/18 right..

 

[Lacrystol]

Hey guys. Been out all day to leave him to it, iv come back and still no external pip. Will he get angry if I stick a light next to the air sack and leave it there so I can keep an eye on him?

That means you have to open the bator right?? ANSWER: NO it's not alright!! you must leave him. If you want to do something then go to youtube find baby ducks hatching. Play the video, lay it on top of the bator, if he hears other babies poping out, it may inspire him to move a long.

Again his time not yours. LOL He is in NO RUSH to see you and like I said this is His time To torment you...

 

[Birdrain92]

That egg should be good. I know the photo isn't that good but see the dark spot on top, that means it's fertile.

 

[c0urtmarie]

So my very first picture is a fertile one? What do you think about the other 3? They have discs but not as noticeable as my first egg

 

[c0urtmarie]

Sorry I have 4 eggs total in my incubator