Anyone hatching with me? Set eggs 4/20

[bburn]

I had a really good hatch two weeks ago. All but six eggs hatched. I have been wondering and thinking that maybe it was their location in the incubator. So, when I candled on day 8....veins everywhere and only had two ? in all the 41 eggs, I stayed very organized and moved the eggs by rows. On day 18, when I candle before lockdown I will mark them by row and location as I take them out of the turner and place them back in the incubator. I have no idea if it will make any difference at all but I wanted to try.

I did order for $10 a candler from incubator warehouse. I moved the eggs by row into an egg carton next to the incubator. But I was able to candle them setting in the egg cartons and then realized I could candle them right in the incubator also. So, I moved the first row into the egg carton, candled the next row and moved them over to the empty spots and then moved the ones from the egg carton into their spots.

I liked that this little flashlight candler worked so well that I could just put it on top of the egg and see if it was developing. Now, if the three hour power outage from the other night....terrible storms....did not do any damage I just might have a really good hatch!

 

[Cattitude]

With all the power outages here lately, I'm not sure any of these eggs are going to make it. But I'm going to leave them in for a few more days and candle them this weekend.

Hoping for some survivors!

 

[Miss Red]

I had a power outage here two nights ago, too. When I realized it wasn't coming back on, I ran out and started rotating eggs between my hens. My eggs spent the night under my most trusted brooders and went back in the 'bator today. I still haven't candled, but I need to. Need to candle all my eggs under my hens, too. I did have a rotten egg under one of my new hens from my new roo. She was on day 22 when it busted, four others had hatched so I busted up her nest. The pigs got and enjoyed popping those eggs... It was pretty gross, if I do say so myself.

Also, is there a such thing as barred leghorns? Because I think there was a recessive gene in some eggs I hatched. The hen is stark white, the roo out of that hatch has the coloring of a barred rock... But he came out of a "pure leghorn flock." I don't know if I was had, or if he is a real color... So he's out with my layer girls until I know for sure.

OH! Broody updates... Two are hatching early, 29 has one RIR adopted chick... 32 hatched two EE, one claret, and one RIR for me. Way to go girls! Not too shabby considering mother nature as not on their side.

 

[DTRM30]

Well, I candled midway through for day 10 - and ended up with 7 out of 12 developing. Saw movement in three - and the rest all have veins and are getting darker. Out of the 5 that didn't make it - three had blood rings and two did nothing at all. So, all in all, for shipped eggs - I'm satisfied

Though I do wonder what could have cause the three to start to develop, but quit so early ... I know it happens, but It still peaks my curiosity ....