8 eggs in the incubator

[kuntrygirl]

I guess I should candle soon?

 

[PeepsCA]

WHAT!?!?! LOL you haven't candled yet!?!

You don't have to candle at all, you can just wing it! (I can't ever wait and see tho, I gotta know asap... plus duds take up valuable incubator space for me, so they gotta go, lol).

 

[ellpel]

WHAT!?!?! LOL you haven't candled yet!?!

You don't have to candle at all, you can just wing it! (I can't ever wait and see tho, I gotta know asap... plus duds take up valuable incubator space for me, so they gotta go, lol).

if you don't candle, will the non fertile ones " blow up"? I have some welsummer eggs that are hard to candle.

 

[kuntrygirl]

[COLOR=4B0082]WHAT!?!?! LOL you haven't candled yet!?! [/COLOR]

[COLOR=4B0082]You don't have to candle at all, you can just wing it! (I can't ever wait and see tho, I gotta know asap... plus duds take up valuable incubator space for me, so they gotta go, lol).[/COLOR]

Nope, I haven't candled yet. I'm having a hard time just remembering I have eggs in the incubator.

I think I will just wing it since you said that.

The last Maran eggs I set, I NEVER candled and I had 8 infertile eggs and NONE of them blew up. I was sooooooo lucky and soooooo scared. The eggs that weren't fertile looked good enough to cook. They didn't even smell. I thought that was unusual.

 

[PeepsCA]

I have never had a Guinea egg blow up, so it may be more common with chicken eggs or other eggs that are thinner shelled.

The only time I've worried about an egg blowing up was when I had taken eggs away from a Hen that had gone broody on a pile, and I moved them into the incubator as soon as I've found them...(but now I usually candle those batches as they go in, just to see if there are any questionable eggs).

Usually a bad egg gives off an odor way before it blows up tho... so if you get a whiff of yuck when you open the bator, you better candle and find the bad egg or eggs, lol.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I candled about 5 eggs last night and I think I saw something in all 5 eggs. I think I'm on to something with this candling thing.

 

[kuntrygirl]

When is lockdown for guinea eggs?

 

[PeepsCA]

Typically day 25 for most, but I lock mine down day 23 or 24, depending on how slanted most of the air cells are.

 

[kuntrygirl]

[COLOR=4B0082]Typically day 25 for most, but I lock mine down day 23 or 24, depending on how slanted most of the air cells are.[/COLOR]

Thank you!

 

[kuntrygirl]

According to my calendar, lock down is next week, 5-9-2012.

How is everyone else doing with their guinea eggs?