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

[ronott1]

I candled all my eggs last night; the Christmas eggs and the eggs for this hatch that were put in on the 11th and I have questions.

For this thread's hatch I had a couple of blue eggs that I didn't see a vein but they showed change and I imagine there'll be veining if I candled tonight. Some eggs showed a vein or two and some eggs showed embryos with vein development! I saw veins at the end of day 2 with the Christmas hatch which totally surprised me, and some didn't show development...but did show development later on.

Do some eggs start developing before others in the same group? And that much? The oldest egg of mine for this thread is from the 26th of Nov. so it's a pretty tight hatch (for me.) I don't remember seeing this in the hatches I did this summer/fall. I'm an extreme novice at incubating so I don't have the experience and knowledge for comparison. I have forced air and no noticeable cool spots. I rotate eggs in position and level to keep everything even. And as far as I can tell I should be hitting the 95.5-100 range by what my calibrated thermometers say. I have a variety of sizes of eggs incubating, but both regular sized eggs and tiny eggs showed slightly more developed eggs AND lesser developed eggs.

(I hope this makes sense...I'm beyond exhausted today...lol!)

Often blue eggs are harder to see into so the veins do not show up.

 

[ChickaLong]

Had one. It holds the temp and humidity like no other. But, I like my humidity low, and it kept beeping at me. I hatched 26 out of 29 eggs that went into lock down with it. I didn't actually lock down and hatch in it, but did incubate the whole time. The turner gave out on me, I've heard several people say that they do, but I got another and put it in. Works great, if you don't mind hearing the beeping. I let a friend have it..just have to be careful not to put too much water in there, I'm talking only drops in the first two weeks. It keeps humidity..I would put a couple of drops in every couple of days to keep in around the mid 30's after the first week.

I see doing some looking on BYC that the settings can be changed so it does not beep as much. The low and high can be set.

 

[generaldsherman]

Often blue eggs are harder to see into so the veins do not show up.

That's exactly why I didn't pull out any of my blue or green eggs when I candled yesterday.

 

[darkbluespace]

I didn't set the wyandottes. I literally set all my duck eggs in one basket.

Can you still set them? They will just be a few days behind!

Sorry about your duck eggs!

 

[Pensmaster]

I'm in Sunny Florida, they do fine with heat.
I have another $4 timer that is hooked to a fan and it comes on about 10 and off at about 4 , just for the hottest hours of the day.

I have heard of 25%-85% hatch rates with quail, I hope I get at least one!

I found/used a fan from the house for the coop. It has a temperature switch on it. Works great. I've also hood up an attic vent that woks on hydrolics opens when hot closes back with cooler temp
Hope you get bunches of quail.

 

[Pensmaster]

I hope you're eggies are good.

Sometimes my wafer thermostat makes my scratch my head. It can keep the most beautiful temps and then it decides to change things up...lol. It decided to run hotter last night after I was in it...so I was up 'til 3am adjusting temps.  These eggs are gonna be the death of me! No more checking eggs late...I'm doing it as soon as it's dark.  


Is your wafer like this??

Haha, same happened to me. I had the incubator up and running for couple days. Running great. Put eggs in and it went to 102. Turn down and watched it all night. Up every two hours. Sleepless for sure.

 

[ChickaLong]

Haha, same happened to me. I had the incubator up and running for couple days. Running great. Put eggs in and it went to 102. Turn down and watched it all night. Up every two hours. Sleepless for sure.

Been there

 

[Cynthia12]

I see doing some looking on BYC that the settings can be changed so it does not beep as much. The low and high can be set.

Yes, but it doesn't want to go lower than 20 C. I like mine around high 20's, mid 30's. It didn't like that, but you push the button if it won't stop, will beep again about 4 times, then stops until you need to put those couple of drops in again. It reads in C. So, 20/21 is good for the first couple of weeks, then I go up to 21/22 for the rest of the time. Pretty good bator. Just have to figure out what is good for your place in the house.

 

[Cynthia12]

What? No eggs from my two girls today, not even my leghorn, and I got a new egg yesterday.

What's up with that? Not even snowing like they said it would, but of course, the day isn't over yet. Looking pretty dark out there.

 

[ChickaLong]

What? No eggs from my two girls today, not even my leghorn, and I got a new egg yesterday.

What's up with that? Not even snowing like they said it would, but of course, the day isn't over yet. Looking pretty dark out there.