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

[RoodyRodchester]

So sorry!

Thanks. The husband and the kids will be excited they wanted lots of ducks so we still have those to look forward to. Even tho I know nothing about ducks lol.

 

[bamadude]

Envious of those of you that cancandle and see in your eggs!

Today is day 8 here and it is driving me nuts.

I actually took a Marans egg to Wal Mart to try to find a flashlight that would candle it.
The ozark trail OT-250 works pretty well

 

[BullChick]

I candled right before supper tonight.    Not going to make that mistake again.  

I'm still trying to make it to Friday to candle, but with all the talk of candling it's getting harder. Im glad I have some white eggs to candle this time. The brown eggs are so hard to tell. I will leave brown eggs I can't tell till day 18 if they are not cracked. Have had some I thought were bad at 7 days hatch. Maybe I need better glasses!!!

CANDLE CANDLE CANDLE CANDLE CANDLE CANDLE

 

[WthrLady]

I actually took a Marans egg to Wal Mart to try to find a flashlight that would candle it.
The ozark trail OT-250 works pretty well

thanks bama...my 450 lumen one does cut through and the ozark at 250 wouldn't stand a chance.

 

[bamadude]

thanks bama...my 450 lumen one does cut through and the ozark at 250 wouldn't stand a chance.

The color of the light is much more important than number of lumens

 

[WthrLady]

Which end of the spectrum is the ozark. Both of my candlers are on the blue white end of the spectrum.

 

[bamadude]

Which end of the spectrum is the ozark. Both of my candlers are on the blue white end of the spectrum.

Im not sure.

 

[ronott1]

Which end of the spectrum is the ozark. Both of my candlers are on the blue white end of the spectrum.

look for a more yellow light. blue and white are reflected by the egg shell so the color is very important.(I think Bama learned that from me--I started posting that a couple of years ago).

There was another poultry study about it.

 

[KYTinpusher]

Quote: That makes a lot of sense as egg shells are blue and white and they get their color from the light that is reflected by the shell. My 200 lumens flashlights do pretty well on the dark brown and the blue eggs.

 

[RubyNala97]

Roller/Damascene/German Owl mixes

I've never heard of those. I have to look them up! My grandfather is a die-hard racer around the country of homing pigeons and my neighbors got some cool new types I had never seen before...

You're totally killing me too!  Omg...so gorgeous! 

Someone in my neck of the woods (ok...more like 4 hours away) has Isbars and I think they may be a good fit for here. How do you like them? Our flock is a varied assortment of everything from Old English game birds, Silkies to some fairly large EE's and everything in-between.

Just curious, how do the silkies do mixed in with the large fowl breeds in your flock?

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!)

I have the same thing going on. I see the embryo moving in most of them but then in 3 pullet eggs, I only see a tiny bit of red veining. Looks way behind the others. Not sure if they will fully develop.

This is why, when I candle early..yep..I can see more development in some of my eggs set.  Had one given to me for this hatch coming up, that was several days older than the others.  I have it marked too, will see what happens.
 On the HAL eggs, I can definitely see less development in one of the eggs. I see the little embryo, but no movement yet..no black spot moving like I am seeing with the others. 

Yup, same here, exactly. We'll see what happens in a few more days, right?

Anyone ever use those Silica gel pacs to get air cells going/caught up?

I haven't but I've used charcoal/carbon pellets and it worked great. How high is your humidity?