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

[MountainChickenMama]

Got myself some batteries for my expensive light and I saw the heartbeat again on the same one....I have veining on all 3 americauna eggs, and can faintly see veins on the dark brown eggs, so, I guess they are at least fertile, and I have at least have one baby growing with the heartbeat.....Now, when will I be able to see an eye or the embryo moving???

Great video by the way, I am afraid to spin my eggs like that though, LOL

 

[artathart]

Boy do I have a suprise!!!! I know I know, stop candling. I will. Promise.

But I had another temp spike so I had to remove the lid for just a sec. This is what I found...This is day 5 Americauna egg. Now I have 8 of them but this is the only one that has.........

I am going to be a mommy!!!!! I am sad that I dont see more like this but how great is this!!! Cant see anything but a blob thru the Welsummers and Marans.


Happy dance, happy dance!!!!!!

 

[petunias212]

dancing with you!!!!!!!!!

I am sooooooooo happy for you!!!!!!!


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[artathart]

I am sooooo super happy. But super sad that out of 26 eggs....This is the only one. But My hopes are high.

 

[RustyHen]

I'm excited for youe I can't bring myself to candel untill 10 days or +, I just could not make that life and death decision before then. on day3 for me.

 

[MikeS(erama)]

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Yay!!!

at least it's a little bit of relief!

 

[artathart]

MikeS(erama) :

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Yay!!!

at least it's a little bit of relief!

Yes it was so now I can keep my hads out of the incubator. All I wanted was PROOF there was life and I needed to see a vein. I got to see one. I checked a bunch of eggs and only faound this one. But its hope and now the lid stays closed until day 10!​

 

[MikeS(erama)]

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Lol those are just some test eggs of my chickens, so no fears lol the embryo and veining is all attached to the yolk at this point so no chick was harmed in the making of this film lol
Usually when I candle at around a week to 9 days (depending on if I get the chance to candle at the week mark) is when I see the chick moving around. They grow so fast!
Here's a link to a video I took of a serama egg at 7 days. Btw, if anyone ever wants to become really heart broken and frustrated with eggs, try seramas! When you start out with 8 of your own breeding serama pairs eggs, and as the days go by you end up with 1-2 hatching due to each one quitting, even during lockdown, due to their lethal gene.....

let's just say I gave up on that breed for a while.

 

[MountainChickenMama]

MikeS(erama) :

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Lol those are just some test eggs of my chickens, so no fears lol the embryo and veining is all attached to the yolk at this point so no chick was harmed in the making of this film lol
Usually when I candle at around a week to 9 days (depending on if I get the chance to candle at the week mark) is when I see the chick moving around. They grow so fast!
Here's a link to a video I took of a serama egg at 7 days. Btw, if anyone ever wants to become really heart broken and frustrated with eggs, try seramas! When you start out with 8 of your own breeding serama pairs eggs, and as the days go by you end up with 1-2 hatching due to each one quitting, even during lockdown, due to their lethal gene.....

let's just say I gave up on that breed for a while.

So, at day 6, the embryo is still attached to the yolk? Why in your video don't you see the yolk anymore?​

 

[MikeS(erama)]

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Lol those are just some test eggs of my chickens, so no fears lol the embryo and veining is all attached to the yolk at this point so no chick was harmed in the making of this film lol
Usually when I candle at around a week to 9 days (depending on if I get the chance to candle at the week mark) is when I see the chick moving around. They grow so fast!
Here's a link to a video I took of a serama egg at 7 days. Btw, if anyone ever wants to become really heart broken and frustrated with eggs, try seramas! When you start out with 8 of your own breeding serama pairs eggs, and as the days go by you end up with 1-2 hatching due to each one quitting, even during lockdown, due to their lethal gene.....

let's just say I gave up on that breed for a while.

So, at day 6, the embryo is still attached to the yolk? Why in your video don't you see the yolk anymore?

When everything in an incubator is running smoothly and the way it should, the growth rate in a chick embryo is amazingly fast. You go from an embryo that looks like the one in the first video at 4 days, to one that looks like the one that is in the second video at 7 days.
Not sure if I've posted this link yet, but this is a video from my last set of eggs. It starts with a pic of a 3 day Andalusian embryo, then shows a video of one at 7 days. My second year of incubating, and I still love to document their growth, and see the changes going on. Lol