Anyone Setting Eggs Tonight 3/31/2011 - Come join me if you like!

[petunias212]

welcome!! lol! i hear you...same here - my first hatch only 3 out of 24 hatched and survived...this is my second hatch and I said I wasn't going to touch them until day 14 but i couldn't help myself and when i think it worked against me because i didn't see any veining on day 4, but i'm trying to stay hopeful since i've had temp and humidity issues, hopefully, these are just a bit late delaying as i was getting temp and humidity levelled....

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[rebelINny]

I hope you all do have some hatch out for ya. I use a Little Giant still air bator and i open the lid all the time to turn the eggs by hand and get it back up to temp and blah blah. So far out of all the eggs I have candled (at least half, the others are too dark) they all have good veins and now I can see the dark spot that is the eye YAY!


The quail eggs I got I purchased from ebay for 99c for 30 eggs and it was $14 shipping. The last batch I did all were fertile but like 3! Try to get some from there as they are alot cheaper than 24 for $30 thats for sure.

 

[chickflick247]

I am trying really hard to fight the temptation to candle. I set 23 of mine on the 1st also. It has been so hard not candling. I will probably wait until day 7.

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[artathart]

Okay....So I candled again but ONLY because when I came in from unloading hay (My farm doesnt care that I have eggs in a crappy incubator) the temp was 102.4 so I needed to get the tempd down. I fogired if I was going to open the lid anyway.....I was sneak a peak. A lot can happen in 24 hours right? Well sorta. I have 26 eggs and I still have no veins BUT.......In 4 eggs there is a little tiny black dot in the yolk area. No veins though. All the rest still nothing. I cen see right thru the Americauna eggs plan as day and I think they are a loss. But those little black dots.....Those are eyes right?


I have some hope....Something I didnt really have last night. Not going to candle until day 10 I promise!

 

[petunias212]

yipeeeee!!

Houston, we have an eye!!!!

Very happy for you!!

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[artathart]

Humidity down to 30 %.....Should I add water? I amattempting a dry incubation but I know at some point of the humidity gets to low, I need to add water.

 

[MikeS(erama)]

Here's the link to the video. You can see that the yolk (including the embryo) still move in the egg as I turn the egg around. Not sure what you guys are using to candle with, but the brighter light the better. Right now I'm using a $3 9 led light I picked up at tsc. LED seems to work the best being that they are usually very bright. A regular bulb light usually isn't bright enough to see every detail inside the egg.

 

[artathart]

MikeS(erama) :

Here's the link to the video. You can see that the yolk (including the embryo) still move in the egg as I turn the egg around. Not sure what you guys are using to candle with, but the brighter light the better. Right now I'm using a $3 9 led light I picked up at tsc. LED seems to work the best being that they are usually very bright. A regular bulb light usually isn't bright enough to see every detail inside the egg.

I am using a 9 bulb LED light as well.​

 

[MikeS(erama)]

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Will be looking forward to the video....I wish I knew if my eggs were growing? I see veins in all 3 Americauna eggs, but I don't see the heartbeat in one that I saw it in last night and I don't see an embryo moving in it yet? It will be 5 days tonight....I can't see anything in my brown eggs though, LOL

You're lucky to see the heart beat, I've only had a couple eggs that I was able to see that in.

 

[petunias212]

Thank you for posting this video..kind of just affirms for me that at least in the eggs I can see into, there is no veining, an eye, a foot, a trunk or anything at all...I could spin the eggs in every which way and would be more likely to get a sweater out of eggs than a chick!! i will candle again on day 10 -

MikeS(erama) :

Here's the link to the video. You can see that the yolk (including the embryo) still move in the egg as I turn the egg around. Not sure what you guys are using to candle with, but the brighter light the better. Right now I'm using a $3 9 led light I picked up at tsc. LED seems to work the best being that they are usually very bright. A regular bulb light usually isn't bright enough to see every detail inside the egg.