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

[FeyRaine]

I just pulled out 15 of original 68 eggs.
(Fully recharged flashlight shed some real light on the situation tonight!)

Now there are still a few dark ones w/ ? things going on inside, & a couple others I'm going to re-check day10 b/c I'm hoping they aren't BR already.

Overall I'm pleasantly surpized so many of the really OLD eggs are actually still in the bator, about 3 doz.

what I'm not so happy about is that _several_ of the ones I pulled were my own fresh eggs w/ Blood Rings? not too happy about that & not sure what is going on...will be changing out the hay in the nest boxes first thing in the am tomorrow b/c I really don't like that any of those fresh eggs of mine were apparently "not so fresh" : ( yikes!! & those decoy eggs (golf balls) those are going for a bleach bath.

ORIGINAL EGGS PIC:


Interestingly there is no pattern to the bad eggs in re: placement in bator, so w/ tilting & switching the upper level eggs 3x the heat appears to be reasonably even in the ancient still air LG.

 

[Dish chickens]

I will remember you said that, just in case.

X2

 

[FuzzyHens]

If I had candled, I might have seen some veins there too.

They are darker though--

That would also have been grounds for congrats...if you had candled...

 

[bamadude]

Oh well. I will wait and see. I wanted to tell you that I got the flashlight today that you told me about. It is great! My husband now wants one like it. I can see very well in our darkest egg our Golden Comet lays. Thanks for the help!

it is cool to be able to help. Tell ur husband he is not allowed to have that flashlight without a note from his doctor

 

[DragonClaw01]

What is this good candeler you speak of? And I must have missed the date

 

[FuzzyHens]

The winner of the number of eggs set contest is:

@michaelf with a guess of 2247.

2360 eggs were reported as being set for the hatch a long.

Congrats!!!

 

[gevshiba]

Great photo of your Shiba Inu!!! I used to do agility with my sheltie...absolutely love agility. She is 13 now so no trials in her future, but she still runs a small course or two in the back yard.

Thanks! Here's a closer, more recent pic of Quick. Agility is very addictive. I've been playing for about 15 years now. And to keep it on topic, Quick can't wait for the eggs to hatch. Chicken watching is very popular in my house. So far, there hasn't been any chicken catching, but we've had some close calls.

 

[chicken pickin]

Here is the picture of the damaged egg. I candled it and it does have veins
.

What do I do? What do I do?

Will nail polish fix this?

I had an egg look just like this, a broody stepped on her egg. I used melted plain unscented white candle wax. Not poured directly on but smoothed on with my finger. I put it in the incubator and it hatched just fine.

 

[Canadianislupus]

Took some pics of the baby eggs tonight

. Also tried to take a video...tried being they key word as the quality isn't that great..But you can see the little jelly beans dancing

The second video is still uploading so I will post it later.
Egg # 1






Egg #2




Dancing jelly bean inside egg#1

 

[bamadude]

GREAT CANDLING LIGHT FROM WALMART: OZARK TRAIL OT-250L.....STOP SKIPPING PAGES U WEIRDO...U KNOW WHO U ARE...YEAH U