4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[MarineCorpFarmr]

I'm breaking my promise Peeps....I'm hitting the hay and will not post duckling pictures until tomorrow. Sorry!

Can you wait a few more hours? We have three ducklings as of right now, with two trying to zip....pictures tomorrow.

Night All

~ Aspen

for shame! luls night night Aspen

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Good morning every one just stopping in before head off to work

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Well off I go it's not going to be a fun drive it's snowing

 

[Blarneyeggs]

I'm breaking my promise Peeps....I'm hitting the hay and will not post duckling pictures until tomorrow. Sorry! Can you wait a few more hours? We have three ducklings as of right now, with two trying to zip....pictures tomorrow.

Night All

~ Aspen

If there aren't pics, it didn't happen. Just sayin.

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

If there aren't pics, it didn't happen. Just sayin.

<insert smarta$$ comment here> lol

 

[Brookhavens]

Hi everybody! We set on the 11th, and I couldn't stand the waiting anymore and candled the eggs. There are darker blotches in 2-3 of the yolks of our brown eggs, but mostly nothing, one of the white ones have absolutely nothing, and the other has this tiny red ring. Should we wait longer? This makes me so sad! This is our third dozen, and I hate to have to tell my son that we failed once again. I would be happy with just one chick.

I am so ready to make a big quiche breakfast tomorrow, and chuck our bator out the window!

I've attached a candling pic of one of our white eggs. WHAT is that tiny red ring? I'm hoping against hope that it's not a blood ring, that it's something else!

To me it looks like "something else"!!!! Don't throw anything out just yet. It is still too early. Wait until at least day 10 before you start chucking.

 

[Brookhavens]

Good Morning everyone.
What's going on inside our Chicken eggs-Day 4:

Torsion and flexion continue through the fourth day. The chick's entire body turns 90° and lies down with its left side on the yolk. The head and tail come close together so the embryo forms a "C" shape. The mouth, tongue, and nasal pits develop as parts of the digestive and respiratory systems. The heart continues to enlarge, even though it has not been enclosed within the body. It is seen beating if the egg is opened carefully. The other internal organs continue to develop. By the end of the fourth day of incubation, the embryo has all organs needed to sustain life after hatching, and most of the embryo's parts can be identified. The chick embryo cannot, however, be distinguished from that of mammals.

Fourth day -- beginning of tongue

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

morning all

 

[michaelf]

I use the cheap little giant Styrofoam incubator. I have an awesome hatch rate with it. It has the see through plastic so i can watch the eggs that are on a turner. After I put them in I wait about a week to check for fertile and non fertile eggs. I use a 200 lumen led light to see in eggs. It works well. Even in dark Marans eggs

 

[Blarneyeggs]

I use the cheap little giant Styrofoam incubator. I have an awesome hatch rate with it. It has the see through plastic so i can watch the eggs that are on a turner. After I put them in I wait about a week to check for fertile and non fertile eggs. I use a 200 lumen led light to see in eggs. It works well. Even in dark Marans eggs

Who here thinks Michael has extraordinarily good eye sight? Okay, there is the possibility that he knows what he's looking for.

I try to candle as LITTLE as possible. If it smells, I take it out. I don't want to risk dropping an egg, since I can hardly tell what I'm looking at. On Day 18 that aircell (or lack thereof) is fairly obvious ~even I can see it. So that's the day we clean house and keep the good ones.