6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[bamadude]

Cynthia: u are getting sleepy...when i snap my fingers...u will have the sudden urge to send those Marans eggs to me.....

 

[Cynthia12]

Ok, so it's been a while since I've hatched, but has this cooling off thing been around for a while..and please explain it.

 

[ronott1]

Ok, so it's been a while since I've hatched, but has this cooling off thing been around for a while..and please explain it.

There have been some studies and Brinsea has added it to their advance incubators as an option.

From day 8 to 18, the eggs are cooled down. The studies showed that two hours were ideal. If you have a regular incubator, you turn it off for two hours while you do chicken chores.

Of course the benefit is lost if you forget to turn it back on...

The cool down cycle will make the chicks stronger that hatch and will get you one more chick per hatch usually.

 

[LPeaslee]

Ok, so it's been a while since I've hatched, but has this cooling off thing been around for a while..and please explain it. 

Some of the incubators have a cool down cycle to simulate the hen leaving the nest for food and water. It's supposed to increase the hatch rate.

 

[blackgoat]

Finally caught up-again. Work is really getting in the way.

Do we candle on day 7 or 8? I don't want to cheat, but I'm getting a bit curious. I pulled a few eggs from the fridge, too. I think my fridge is too cold, but we'll see. Those are the ones I'm most curious about.

I had an egg explode seconds after I had been holding it to my ear to see if I could hear any cheeping. I had bagged it and placed it down into the trash, then gone back to do something before taking the trash out. I had been wondering if they really explode. Now I know.

Night all. Go to bed so I don't have another 150 posts to read in the morning.

What's wrong with cheating

?

I once had an egg explode in my incubator. I noticed it sweating, but for some reason I didn't take it out right away. About an hour later....Moral of the story: Take sweating (seeping, oozing, stinking, etc) eggs out immediately!

By the way, is that a Shiba Inu in your avatar doing agility? That must have taken persistence and/or patience! Color me impressed. I can't even get my Shiba to come when I call without bribing him with cheese (and sometimes even that doesn't work). LOL!

 

[JW12]

Here is my red neck candler! The flashlight came from Home Depot it has 900 lumens. I took a can of green beans and cut the top off, feed the beans to the chickens, and cut a 1 1/2" hole in top with a circle cut drill bit. The egg sits perfectly in the hole. It works great.

ETA: please pardon my mess in my junk room. My DW saw me posting the picture and did I should be ashamed. I was like why it's my junk and I'm proud of it lol. She was still not pleased :/

 

[Cynthia12]

Thank you on the info for cool down, and, I did not know there were incubators that do this!

 

[Veer67]

What's wrong with cheating  ? 

 I once had an egg explode in my incubator. I noticed it sweating, but for some reason I didn't take it out right away. About an hour later....Moral of the story: Take sweating (seeping, oozing, stinking, etc) eggs out immediately!

By the way, is that a Shiba Inu in your avatar doing agility? That must have taken persistence and/or patience! Color me impressed. I can't even get my Shiba to come when I call without bribing him with cheese (and sometimes even that doesn't work). LOL!

I had a similar experience. It started with one egg that I was positive was not developing....I didn't candle it for a few days and the next time I did I was surprised to find that it was dark inside! Since I was new to hatching eggs, I actually believed that the egg had an embryo inside growing. Only after a few more days, when stuff started oozing out of the egg did I suspect something was wrong. I took the egg out of the bator, took on whiff, and knew that it had gone bad a while back. I cracked the egg before I threw it away and was surprised to see that the inside had all turned dark (almost black), inside the yolk was a watery yellowish gray mixture. And oh, the smell was the worst part!

 

[Cynthia12]

Here is my red neck candler! The flashlight came from Home Depot it has 900 lumens. I took a can of green beans and cut the top off, feed the beans to the chickens, and cut a 1 1/2" hole in top with a circle cut drill bit. The egg sits perfectly in the hole. It works great.

ETA: please pardon my mess in my junk room. My DW saw me posting the picture and did I should be ashamed. I was like why it's my junk and I'm proud of it lol. She was still not pleased

Looks very similar to mine. Only I used an empty can of beans..the big can. Works great.

 

[Cynthia12]