7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[chicknlove]

@MotorcycleChick I will be clueless on doing this too. It looks like your light does it as they sit.

I wish that was my picture!! haha I pick mine up too. I use an led flashlight and an old candle holder I painted and turned into a candling devise

 

[BullChick]

Ah! But I never said that I had candled.

That's right you didn't!

Are you trying to say something? :-D

 

[daxigait]

I ordered a six dollar candler, but it just looks like a flashlight to me.

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 what post number was the one on washing eggs that you posted today?

It was post 1391

Yes, you can safely wash them. Use warm water to get the stuff off--the theory is that using water warmer than the egg will not force bacteria into the egg--It's a thermal properties thing. Then rinse them in a weak bleach solution--1TBL bleach per gallon of water, contact time one minute. This will not remove the bloom and I have cleaned dirty eggs--they hatched fine for me.

 

[chicknlove]

Are you trying to say something? :-D

I held out, I didn't think that I could do it! Well besides yesterday. I didn't candle at all today.. I will candle tomorrow morning though! I hope I can get a good picture to share.

 

[BullChick]

[@=/u/136105/MotorcycleChick]@MotorcycleChick[/@] I will be clueless on doing this too. It looks like your light does it as they sit.

I wish that was my picture!! haha I pick mine up too. I use an led flashlight and an old candle holder I painted and turned into a candling devise

I use a toilet paper tube.

First, it only changes it a few degrees. Nothing to worry about. Especially when you consider that a hen can leave the nest for half an hour or so.
As for how much to turn, just kinda roll them half way. The point is to keep them from sticking to the shell.
Think of it like a pot of tomato soup. If you don't stir it, it burns/sticks to the bottom.
Turn an odd number of times daily. The best advice is to cut the bottom out of an egg carton. Elevate one end. Then later that day, lift the other end up. Just keep switching ends.

what type of carton? Isn't that a fire hazard? Do you have a picture?

No fire hazard. 99-102* isn't all that hot. Any carton will do. Most use styrofoam. I think there is a picture in SallySunshine's article.

 

[daxigait]

I have to clean it and test everything tomorrow. Is there a guide on how to put them in the Bator? Mine is just round and flat.

 

[chicknlove]

I have to clean it and test everything tomorrow. Is there a guide on how to put them in the Bator? Mine is just round and flat.

Here is a picture of what MC is talking about. This one was left in the bator even during the hatch.

 

[BullChick]

I have to clean it and test everything tomorrow. Is there a guide on how to put them in the Bator? Mine is just round and flat.

Here is a picture of what MC is talking about. This one was left in the bator even during the hatch.

Now you've gone and done it! Begun the "to hatch upright or in a carton " debate. I'm a lay down kinda person. Daxi, do whichever.

 

[chicknlove]

Now you've gone and done it! Begun the "to hatch upright or in a carton " debate.
I'm a lay down kinda person. Daxi, do whichever.

That's what I do too, it was just a picture I pulled off google.