4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[Sally Sunshine]

Bator update~

Lets begin with the Mag-Lite XL50 with 139 lumen BTW he brought me a red one, think I get a red GTO for Christmas???

I said why red, he said "its Christmas"

ANYWAY..... I CAN ONLY SEE AIR CELLS in the Maran. but THANK GOD they move and bounce that air cell! Our Blue EE eggs I could see well in now!! YAY

VIABLES=
MARANS = 20 or 21 lol I was fast will go into lockdown tomorrow, NOTE that some of those air cells are really saddle shaped holy crap!
Serama = 5 ready to burst! Harmony excited also some weird saddle shaped air cells!
Langshang = 2 out of 6 fertile : ( this is day 12 or so for them (SO I WILL BE LOOKING FOR MORE EGGS)
Ancona Duck= 5 set for the NYDHatch from sweet SARA ~ 5 YAY. DAY 12? and soo freakin awesome to watch during candle!!
Olive Eggers = 5 growing SET WITH duck eggs day 12 THANKS Sarah, she sent them with the duckies!! YAYA
GLW & Light Brahma = 5 out of 10 I think....cant tell who is who as no egg markings, eggs all looked the same
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Our EASTER EGGERS & misc = BUST all infertile! Must start looking at them for fertility, I only just started seeing Roo do his job! LOL


DH went downstairs to video tape the candle but whodathunk ~ No MEMORY CARD and ohhh lazyness can be so overwhelming

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: OMG! yes but that IS ALOT of sticky!!! but mine was thicker stickier, I hope they dont explode!!

Did you open one up? would love a pic of a candle and the eggtopsy pic!!! Can I add that to my notes for reference Barney?? that

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: OMG your serious!!!!!!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Anyone on the cloudy ring in several of my eggs?

VEINING?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

DUCK INCUBATION questions......

Its now day 12 I think... should I be doing ANYTHING different at all than the chicken eggs in the bator??

I do dry hatch method.... keeping humidity 28% - 40 depending on weather and then I do 60-62% lockdown.

Should I be misting or cooling them or anything?????

PLEASE SOMEONE who can help me hatch these cute things I would sooooo appreciate it!!

 

[mrheinz77]

Please Please Please, if you have not filled out the form on the first page of how many eggs you set, go do it.

Is anybody up for sending PM's to those who haven't filled it out?

Also, anybody want to count the eggs in the egg set thread to verify that I get the correct number?

 

[FeyRaine]

Where your eggs shipped? It could be they where badly shook up and damaged the yolk. It saw on the incubating guild here while looking for an answer for you that a cloudy mass could be the growing embryo- so unless they stink, just leave them be. Check in 4-5 days if there is any change to the mass, or if the insides got darker.

It is hard to describe - I kept thinking my finger must be casting a shadow, or the flashlight was doing it, but no it was there in the egg from several angles.
In at least 3 eggs, slightly different shape/amt in each, a hazy area kinda globby looking, NO veins, nothing threadlike at all,
basically in the middle of each all the way across (holding w/ big end up, as in my bator).

we drove to get the eggs, 60 mile round trip, very careful (I got out and walked them up our gravel driveway),
& the guy even had the cartons marked for odd vs even which side he tilted them up on which day,
none older than 10 days, his birds looked really great, everything was clean and perfect looking w/ the birds,
only issue would be if Roo was being lazy otherwise I'm 99% confident in those 22 eggs being good.

My concern is that I DID see the tiny tiny spot w/ spidery veins in the one egg from my flock, so by contrast that dosen't bode well for these others

 

[gamebirdsonly]

Please Please Please, if you have not filled out the form on the first page of how many eggs you set, go do it.

Is anybody up for sending PM's to those who haven't filled it out?

Also, anybody want to count the eggs in the egg set thread to verify that I get the correct number?

I counted the first 93 members that were posted

 

[Coffeemama7]

I might at that, however I've heard/read some things that certain types of markers are toxic, and when used to mark eggs the toxins can leek be absorbed into the egg or something. I'm not sure, I've just never used them for that reason. I suppose the same can be said for lead.

~ Aspen

I use cake decorating markers!

 

[TMNfarm]

I'm terrible... I candled again today... Couldn't help it. I had been using an LED flashlight, but it didn't fit the eggs well, so it wouldn't seal off all of the light. Then I tried my cell phone light and that kind of worked, but not really well... So this morning, I brought my actual candler in, so of course I had to candle all of the eggs! I had 11 that were definitely developing and 7 that were questionable. The rest I either saw nothing or couldn't see becasue the eggs were too dark. Tonight when I got home, I re-candled all of the ones that were questionable and they are all definitely developing!!! So... my incubator status is...

Out of 45 eggs...
18 definitely developing
1 thrown out because of a crack which became a hole when it stuck to the turner
26 that I just can't tell yet...

Anyone want to take bets on whether or not I can get through tomorrow without candling??