ANYONE HAVE EGGS DUE!! CHARTS ON PAGE ONE POST ONE!! NEWCOMERS WELCOME!!!

[Jbrandt000]

I just started setting 42 Buckeye chicken eggs. Due the 21st.

 

[chickie fam]

Yes, the first one looks like a bacterial ring.

What does the bacterial ring mean?

 

[stephanie1992]

Thanks!! Good luck on your hatch too! How many have hatched so far?

4 out of the fist 7 hatched. 1 did after pipping. other 2 never absorbed the yolk. the other 22 or so are due the 7th. hope they hatch. humidity spiked last night till this morning. i lowered it after i saw how high it was when i got home from work. they go on lockdown tomorrow.

 

[mc08daniel]

I have 11 that went on lock down today...

 

[mc08daniel]

if the eggs are in there id take the water out instrad of waiting. the eggs could absorb the water and drownd.

What if the humidity stayed at 50% from day one? And then went up to the 65% on lock down? I candled at 7 days all looks good. and when I took them off the turner earlier all felt heavy...we are on locked down since about 2 today.

 

[casslarrabee225]

I have a question..(This is my first time with a broody female)
The membrane of an egg shrink wrap around the duck after it has pipped in an incubator, but does the Momma duck stay on the eggs after they have pipped under her so they don't shrink wrap? Or how does that work? What will happen when she gets up within the "lockdown" days?

 

[JakRat]

I have a broody hen and I think that her eggs are not fertile I couldnt really tell a change from Thursday day to today.

It looks just like there is a yolk in there, no veins, no dark spot.

What do I do now? Do I just take her eggs and she will just have to break her broodiness?

 

[JakRat]

I did see an air sac in one, but dont all eggs have those?

 

[Palmetto Plucker]

I expected to see more pictures this morning. I hope the hatches are going well.

Pouring rain here all day today. I will take pictures if they all fluff out and survive the night. Hatched 5 so far, hen let two get very cold, only saved one. Still have one egg to hatch, maybe by morning. Lordy knows we needed the rain, can't complain.

 

[debs_flock]

I have a broody hen and I think that her eggs are not fertile I couldnt really tell a change from Thursday day to today.

It looks just like there is a yolk in there, no veins, no dark spot.

What do I do now? Do I just take her eggs and she will just have to break her broodiness?

That's only two days. I'd just leave them with her. If you can't see any veining by 6 or 7 days, then I could understand pulling them.

Deb