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

[RUNuts]

Also, very glad to hear the pups and Mom and doing well.

LOL! These pups have a fan club here and at the Vet's office.

 

[Nyla]

Here is my first Candling. Eggs are due to hatch April 30th. I was holding the camera and trying to candle the eggs without dropping them..

 

[Cryss]

I have to sleep tonight..hopefully I'll be up all night tomorrow night watching the bator.


So to recap my plans for tomorrow.
I am going to candle the eggs more slowly this time, looking for good veins.
When I get them home, assuming they are cold again, I will leave them on the counter for a while until they get to room temp.
THEN put them in the bator.

My question is should I put them in the bator already heated or turn the bator on once I put them in?

I'm no eggspert but I think it's wise to err on the side of caution. I'd let the eggs sit warming to room temperature slowly, then put them in the cold bator before turning it on to let them continue a slow warming. With batch #1 did you warm up your ghetto bator before adding eggs or were the eggs put in before you were finished setting it up ?

 

[sphillips]

Sleeping well. Momma dog eating, drinking, cleaning pups and being a good mother. Pups are pups. Whine, eat, poop and repeat. Puppy breath is rampant. Unfortunately, these are gassy little fur balls. Ripe! So don't squeeze too hard.

Thankfully, nothing exciting happening here.

I do have a question for the eggsperts here. Our layers started laying last November as pullets and are about to turn to hens (1 year olds). The eggs have shrunk. Getting 16 a day from 17 girls, but they are smalls with a few mediums. I thought the leghorns would just keep getting bigger. Nope, they all got together and decided small. At what point do the large eggs come? I understand, I may just have small egged chickens. Just pondering the wonder that is an egg. The incredible, edible egg.

I'm no eggspert, but I had leghorns in my last flock a few years ago. I believe I remember initially the eggs were small. I, in fact, labeled a few of my girls 'freeloaders'. You couldn't feed a toddler a decent breakfast with the tiny eggs they were laying. They did eventually lay beautiful LARGE white eggs for us, and lots of them. Maybe they just need to mature a bit more?

 

[Cryss]

It's Balutday!

 

[Kiki]

I'm no eggspert but I think it's wise to err on the side of caution. I'd let the eggs sit warming to room temperature slowly, then put them in the cold bator before turning it on to let them continue a slow warming. With batch #1 did you warm up your ghetto bator before adding eggs or were the eggs put in before you were finished setting it up ?

I did not let ghetto warm up first.
I just put them in, I think?

 

[Kiki]

Here's my two cents on a few of these.


I made that suggestion. The eggs were refrigerated, then set out on the counter before they went into the ghetto incubator. By allowing the Balut eggs to warm up along with the incubator was to hopefully not shock the embryo.


Great info.



Correct. You are dealing with Baluts that are already incubating. Using fresh eggs, adding even a dozen room temperature eggs will create a "mass" that drops the temperature in the incubator. This allows the eggs and incubator to rise to set temperature over a period of time.
Your room temperature Baluts, few in number, will not create a significant drop in temperature. Therefore, the 70 degree temp embryos and say 90 degree temp in the open incubator will be a small shock.
On the other hand, a hen gets off her nest to drink, eat and eliminate for perhaps 10 - 15 minutes. Her eggs withstand the "shock" and hatch okay.


I mix gold Listerine with the water at 5%. I use it in the incubator and spritz eggs before incubating. You could spritz your hands too. Gold Listerine is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-viral. It was originally used to sterilize surgical equipment.



Every time you open the incubator, the temperature is affected. Candling with a padded flashlight while the eggs are in the turner or a paper egg carton will reduce the contamination on the shell.

So do you think I should try to clean the eggs a little bit today before I put them in?
I wasn't even considering it.

 

[Kiki]

If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, just let it be
If it's meant to be, it'll be, it'll be
Baby, just let it be......

My song was just on AGAIN!

Today is baluttie pick up day!

I'll be getting them around noonish my time.
I have things to do this morning so I'll be away til then.

See ya soon...with baluts!

 

[lilmillefleur]

Yay!!

(seriously I promise I will actually watch this thread)
(I mean though, it's not that bad, I only missed like 200 pages lol)

 

[Kiki]

Yay!!

(seriously I promise I will actually watch this thread)
(I mean though, it's not that bad, I only missed like 200 pages lol)