4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[9gerianMile]

Awesome! I'll keep an eye out for that, then

 

[bnewns]

No its a rock display case I bought at a tailgate for $20.00. I just put a temperature controller on it and it works great for an incubator, can you believe I forgot I had this in the garage since I always have it ready for tortoise eggs.

 

[Buddyfarm11]

When are we going to set the eggs on the 10th of December or the 11th of December? Just Making Sure

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Buddy, page one, first post has the general rules and lists December 11th as set date -it's convenient to find when questions do arise. I'm still not certain what I'll set....hmmm

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Me either. Looking to get a bunch tho. Whether or not i have the turner completed by then or not. I've got 50 in the Ultra-Bator right now for testing. I'll be candling the first dozen today (day 7) to check the progress.

 

[tadpole98]

This morning I went out with my phone to try to get a photo of my rooster, and suddenly he did this flapper thing and i was all set to take a picture but my phone decided to take that moment to say I have no more data left on my phone -_-

 

[cochins1088]

I'm ordering some silver laced cochin eggs off ebay, but I believe that they will come too soon. For the hatchalong, I plan to add some silkie eggs from my neighbors to the incubator with you all. The catch is I'm doing a little experiment, I want to watch an embryo develop. I have a few ideas in my head, all of which involve removing the top half of the shell around the air sac, so that the clear inner membrane remains intact. I then am going to cover that membrane with clear hot glue to act like a "shell". I was also thinking of covering a different one with clear nailpolish. Another idea is using clear candle wax to act like a "shell", and finally, I will also simply cover the top of an egg with sarran wrap to act like a "shell". I won't do this to all of the silkie eggs, just a couple to see what will happen. What do you think?

 

[tadpole98]

I'm ordering some silver laced cochin eggs off ebay, but I believe that they will come too soon. For the hatchalong, I plan to add some silkie eggs from my neighbors to the incubator with you all. The catch is I'm doing a little experiment, I want to watch an embryo develop. I have a few ideas in my head, all of which involve removing the top half of the shell around the air sac, so that the clear inner membrane remains intact. I then am going to cover that membrane with clear hot glue to act like a "shell". I was also thinking of covering a different one with clear nailpolish. Another idea is using clear candle wax to act like a "shell", and finally, I will also simply cover the top of an egg with sarran wrap to act like a "shell". I won't do this to all of the silkie eggs, just a couple to see what will happen. What do you think?

hmm.. be careful removing the top half of the shell. how do you plan to do it? and if it works then we need pics!

 

[beehappy4ever]

I'm ordering some silver laced Cochin eggs off eBay, but I believe that they will come too soon. For the hatch-along, I plan to add some silkie eggs from my neighbors to the incubator with you all. The catch is I'm doing a little experiment, I want to watch an embryo develop. I have a few ideas in my head, all of which involve removing the top half of the shell around the air sac, so that the clear inner membrane remains intact. I then am going to cover that membrane with clear hot glue to act like a "shell". I was also thinking of covering a different one with clear nail polish. Another idea is using clear candle wax to act like a "shell", and finally, I will also simply cover the top of an egg with Saran wrap to act like a "shell". I won't do this to all of the silkie eggs, just a couple to see what will happen. What do you think?

I have never heard of someone doing this but from my experience with hatching how would you deal with the membrane drying or not being able to sweet off moisture? The shell is porous so whatever you try to use would need to be porous also. The inside membrane is opaque so I don't think you would really be able to see anything even with figuring out the shell issue. Plus a higher probability of a bad egg contaminating your other eggs if it doesn't work, would stink to lose an incubator full of eggs. I would be awesome to see if you could find a way of doing it though.

 

[cochins1088]

I have actually done that part of it before, I will first let the eggs sit for a week so that the air sacs have time to grow while hatchability is still strong. I will then take a push pin to make a small hole where the air sac is. Next I simply use a good pair of tweezers to carefully break off as much of the shell as possible from that starting hole without breaking the membrane. Out of 4 eggs, I only broke one membrane and a good portion of the shell was removed from all of them. I was also able to go a bit below the air cell line because the shell peels from the membrane fairly easily, you just have to be very careful not to puncture the membrane while removing the sharp bits of shell. If it works, I will definately take lots of pictures for you guys.