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

[valleychicks]

Need help! Hen kicked egg coming out of the nest box a while ago causing the egg to hit the side of the nest box. The egg now has a thin crack and a dint in it. Is there a way to save the egg or not?

 

[ronott1]

Have tossed 5 eggs, one is questionable. Will check it again in a few days. Not too bad.

that is great news!

 

[ronott1]

Need help! Hen kicked egg coming out of the nest box a while ago causing the egg to hit the side of the nest box. The egg now has a thin crack and a dint in it. Is there a way to save the egg or not?

Nail polish can be used to seal up the cracks. Candle it though to see if it is fertile--It is on day 7 of incubation?

 

[Aphrael]

Got my candling done. I culled 11 that were seeping. 3 were shipped SFH, 5 were LO that had been sitting in a bucket any which way in the fridge for I don't know how long, the last 3 were LO that were collected and stored/turned properly (collected on 11/20, 12/1, and 12/11). So far only 16 with very clearly visible veining (10 SFH from my hen and 6 of the shipped SFH). That leaves 28 I have to recheck at 10 days. Some of those I'm pretty certain are clears, others I just don't know. Some of them glow very red, but no veining that I can see. A couple of the LOs that are left have something going on in there, but I don't know if they are still going or not. Keeping my fingers crossed till I check again at day 10.

 

[ronott1]

Got my candling done. I culled 11 that were seeping. 3 were shipped SFH, 5 were LO that had been sitting in a bucket any which way in the fridge for I don't know how long, the last 3 were LO that were collected and stored/turned properly (collected on 11/20, 12/1, and 12/11). So far only 16 with very clearly visible veining (10 SFH from my hen and 6 of the shipped SFH). That leaves 28 I have to recheck at 10 days. Some of those I'm pretty certain are clears, others I just don't know. Some of them glow very red, but no veining that I can see. A couple of the LOs that are left have something going on in there, but I don't know if they are still going or not. Keeping my fingers crossed till I check again at day 10.

Good job getting the seeping eggs out of there.

I am hoping the rest are developing for you!

 

[jbenson]

Candled and tossed 4 very clear non-starters. Pretty high fertility for this time of year and chilly weather. There were a few I wasn't entirely sure on, but I left them. I always pencil sketch the air sac edge onto the shell so I can be sure they are progressing correctly next time I candle. Anyone else do that?

that leaves 38 eggs in the bator and only 6 chicks spoken for out of this first hatch. . DH is being quite the enabler. He keep telling me to set more eggs. I had to remind him that the turner is full. I told him that to continuous hatch I'd need a dedicated hatcher. Now he wants to make one. Pretty sure that will end up being this weekend's project so I can get it up and running and test how well it holds humidity and temp. If it holds well, I might hatch port of my HAL eggs in there - not all of them though - just in case.

I'm thinking of of taking a a big thick styro cooler like they use to ship fish to pet stores and a 150 watt rough service bulb and some hardware cloth to make the thing. I kinda want to get a dollar store photo frame to make a window in the top cause I just gotta be able to see what is going on during hatching. Pretty sure I can make it for next to free with mostly stuff we already have. Anyone got any good tips who have built one?

 

[valleychicks]

Nail polish can be used to seal up the cracks. Candle it though to see if it is fertile--It is on day 7 of incubation?

Yes, today is day 7 and it feels heavy. I haven't candled it yet today. It has a dent in it too though so would that be bad?

 

[blackgoat]

Ideal hatchery has chicks on special every week.

I had to get off their emailing list, otherwise I'd be buying chicks every week! XD

 

[valleychicks]

Just found out! Happy Birthday @Book !

 

[carcar80]

Got the top back on the LG.. Which is a miracle within itself given my fruitfly attention span.

Eggs got nice and cool- apparently it's 70* in my closet I learned. I'm excited, hope this hatch does SO good!