2021 Jacin Hatchalong #1

[JacinLarkwell]

Alright, candled everyone cause my mom is really excited and has been asking since Tuesday night.

Obviously it's a bit hard to tell of anything's going on, but there were some that either have veins or bloodrings

 

[JacinLarkwell]

We've got a heart!

Kinda hard to see the picture, I'll get a better one tonight. It's one of the barn mixes (hoping the mom is a spitzhauben hen, but coild be the bronze and black one. Dad is probaly the black one bit could be the silver or Pheonix too

 

[JacinLarkwell]

 

[JacinLarkwell]

All three seramas look possible too. Most are still hard to tell though. Gah, the wait is killing me

 

[JacinLarkwell]

We have more life! 2 are viable using just the incubator candled in low light, and several are visible when actually candling on the fat end.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

So we've discovered we think the back left corner gets too hot. We had a few eggs develop there and only had bloodrings it looked like in the last candling. Leaving for now since I might just have bad eyes.

I do have an EE egg that looked like it was developing. So if I mix a tinted/white gene with a green gene, will I get a light green?

 

[JaeG]

So we've discovered we think the back left corner gets too hot. We had a few eggs develop there and only had bloodrings it looked like in the last candling. Leaving for now since I might just have bad eyes.

I do have an EE egg that looked like it was developing. So if I mix a tinted/white gene with a green gene, will I get a light green?

That should work - there seems to be an amazing variety of shades of green.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

That should work - there seems to be an amazing variety of shades of green.

I've never hatched green eggs before so excited for this batch

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Gah, bloodrings....

Is it just temperature and bacteria that cause them or can humidity too? I know that the birds that laid these eggs are healthy.

And no, no external thermometer here. No place to put one, but considering the one that you can get for a reptile tank might work

 

[JaeG]

Gah, bloodrings....

Is it just temperature and bacteria that cause them or can humidity too? I know that the birds that laid these eggs are healthy.

And no, no external thermometer here. No place to put one, but considering the one that you can get for a reptile tank might work

It won't be a humidity issue as that can swing from one extreme to the other without affecting the eggs as its the average humidity over the course of incubation that matters.

It can be caused by temperature extremes when the eggs are stored prior to incubation. Or the temperature fluctuating at a critical stage in the development of the embryo.

Is it one particular breed that it seems to be happening to or was it that particular spot in the incubator?

Are you 100% sure they are blood rings? I only ask because eggs have tricked me before, looking like blood rings but it's just been the beginning of the veins forming.