Anybody going to be hatching around March 22?

[Huny]

I'm still trying to figure out the hatch date of mine. If I set them in at NOON on February 28th, am I getting them hatched on the 21st or the 20th? I had two more I snuck in the next day anyhow!

 

[Mom2Munchkins]

As soon as my little guy hits the hay I'll turn all the lights out and try candling again. I'm gonna try and get pics so you all can give me your opinions.

 

[killer]

out of my 25 i'm looking at 10 good ones. i can see some turning and flipping and flopping. i hae 3 EE and 2 RIR and 3 Bantam and 1 Australorp and 1 brown leghorn. i hope all of them hatch. they will be around the 21st or 22nd.

 

[chicksgalore]

I have 26 eggs in the bator, due the 25th. Tomorrow will be Day 7 and I'm debating candling. This isn't my first hatch although I've not had much success in the past (I think I've had 3 successful hatchers and I helped them) so I'm a little leery to get the eggs out long enough to candle them. I also have no fan or turner and when I open the bator to hand-turn the eggs and add water, it jumps my temp down to the low 90's and then it seems like it takes all day to get it back up. That's what I'm dealing with this time--my humidity's ranging between 35-50 but with that I can't seem to keep my temp at 100. It's more like 96-98. (When it gets to 100, then the humidity has dropped to 30). It just seems like you can't have them both right where you want them!! (Does anyone?)

 

[Mom2Munchkins]

Oook, I just did all 35 of them! And this will be the last time I touch them besides turning them until they hatch.

Out of the 35-
Good - 16 with either veining or a swimmer
Unsure - 16
Clear - 3 (I think)

I really don't know... Some of them I can see so clearly, and some I just don't know. Couldn't get any good pics. In some of them, about half the egg looked dark and half was light, and I would usually see the chick in the darker side.

Eh, who am I kidding, I have no idea what Im talking about.

LOL Oh well, I'm just gonna wait this last week and a half and see what hatches!

 

[chicksgalore]

Well I have a fan but no turner so I am with you there. Mine are in a egg carton that I cut up for air to get to the eggs, so I have been putting something under each end to prop it up so I don't have to take the time to turn each one.

You mean you just take turns propping the 2 ends of the carton up alternately a few times a day? Is this sufficient? I'm just wondering because if so, that would definitely save some time and some temperature drop rather than me in there hand-turning 26 eggs! Come to think of it, isn't that what an auto turner does--I've never seen one in person. I always thought you had to actually turn the egg on it's other side--I mark an "x" on one side and an "o" on the other side and then flip flop them 3 times a day so all "x" are up and vice versa. Have I even got this right?​

 

[Huny]

I would take those clear ones out for sure, and maybe even the 16. I had a couple unsure, and quite a few clear, opened them up and they were exactly that, the clear weren't fertilized (No Bullseye, just the little white dot) the unsure was leaning toward a no and those look like they were shook up, or quitters. I know those that were shooke up or quitters, when I cracked them open, they pretty much exploded in my hand and I was very glad I took them out, even though I really wanted to keep them in there "just in case".

 

[Huny]

chicksgalore I have the X/O and flip them three times a day, but you are right, the egg "turner" just slowly rotates them around in a circle from what I hear. I don't know if I wouldn't think the egg carton lifting (one corner in a circle five times a day (so at night it's not on the same every night). I might try this on my next hatch.

But they cut out the bottom of the carton right?

 

[SoccerMomof7]

I was told that you only turn it 45 degrees, and they are always need to be pointy end down.

 

[Huny]

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So you just go left side/right side? I was thinking more circle like. Hmmmm Maybe need to try this next time. I just still worry about them sticking to the bottom of the egg.