➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[CSAchook]

Thanks @R2elk and @ronott1 for the advice on flashlights for candling!!! This thread continues to produce so much helpful information

 

[NanaKat]

Okay....I"m baaaack!
We have 28 duck eggs that were set on 3/18 in the evening. Day 1 was 3/19 pm. Temperature has been steady at 99.9 degrees and water is added every 3rd day. That makes today day 19. Duck eggs will go to lockdown on 4/13 with pipping and hatch beginning 4/16 until 4/18.
The egg candler used is a plug in Magiclite that I ordered on Amazon to replace my Brinsea that a mouse chewed thru the cord. It has a rubber cone on the end to help cushion the egg during candling. I left them on the egg turner to support the eggs during the process.

Trying to load a video and it isn't working....yet.

 

[ronott1]

Okay....I"m baaaack!
We have 28 duck eggs that were set on 3/18 in the evening. Day 1 was 3/19 pm. Temperature has been steady at 99.9 degrees and water is added every 3rd day. That makes today day 19. Duck eggs will go to lockdown on 4/13 with pipping and hatch beginning 4/16 until 4/18.
The egg candler used is a plug in Magiclite that I ordered on Amazon to replace my Brinsea that a mouse chewed thru the cord. It has a rubber cone on the end to help cushion the egg during candling. I left them on the egg turner to support the eggs during the process.
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Trying to load a video and it isn't working....yet.

I hope the video works!

 

[Molpet]

Okay....I"m baaaack!
We have 28 duck eggs that were set on 3/18 in the evening. Day 1 was 3/19 pm. Temperature has been steady at 99.9 degrees and water is added every 3rd day. That makes today day 19. Duck eggs will go to lockdown on 4/13 with pipping and hatch beginning 4/16 until 4/18.
The egg candler used is a plug in Magiclite that I ordered on Amazon to replace my Brinsea that a mouse chewed thru the cord. It has a rubber cone on the end to help cushion the egg during candling. I left them on the egg turner to support the eggs during the process.
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Trying to load a video and it isn't working....yet.

put a link on youtube and copy and paste the link here

 

[NanaKat]

I don't do YouTube...other than to watch them.
The video was getting an error message for being too long.
I tried to show allllll the eggs. Then the short version with six eggs was too long too.
I'll try again later. The incubator needs to warm back up again.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

How can you properly run an experiment with so many variables!?!?
I suspect you need to do it with large quantities of eggs so that the variables of date laid and which bird laid the egg become negligible. Let's max out your bator with balut eggs! How many can it hold? 100? 1000? Hatch all the little duckies!

We need to start a "go fund me" site for this size experiment . Don't think the weekly starbuck's allowance would cover the expense.

 

[Kiki]

Done.

So what are you up to today?

Horse stuff is keeping me busy.
And you?

 

[Kiki]

I don't do YouTube...other than to watch them.
The video was getting an error message for being too long.
I tried to show allllll the eggs. Then the short version with six eggs was too long too.
I'll try again later. The incubator needs to warm back up again.

We can't upload videos straight to BYC.
We have to use an outside 'source' like Youtube.

 

[Kiki]

We need to start a "go fund me" site for this size experiment . Don't think the weekly starbuck's allowance would cover the expense.

Oh yes it would.
Starbucks gets pretty much daily visits from me.
That adds up to a nice amount of green dollars.

 

[Kiki]

I don't do YouTube...other than to watch them.
The video was getting an error message for being too long.
I tried to show allllll the eggs. Then the short version with six eggs was too long too.
I'll try again later. The incubator needs to warm back up again.

You should go ahead and make a Youtube account now.