Anyone up to set their eggs on Valentine's day with me?

[Inkheart]

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Welcome - are you from Tiffin Ohio?

 

[GoodKids]

I set 7 turkey eggs on the 7th and 14 mixed chicken eggs on the 14th. This is my first ever attempt at hatching, so I'm a wee bit nervous! Looks like I'm in good company, tho!

 

[Inkheart]

Well i am learning that is for sure - i think i might have over researched myself - but we will see!

 

[Valley Girl]

Thanks Inkheart,they're really just a barnyard mix.The hens we ordered through our feed store as day old chicks.....they're a cross of rir and white leghorn,bred for egg laying....so between them and the Australorp roo came Rusty

My very first hatch I didn't do much candling.....wasn't confident enough and had no clue what to look for.The second hatch,I had less eggs in the incubator and I had a stinker,so with the brightest flash light I had I did manage to find it and some that weren't fertile.I'm so scared I'm going to drop one!!

We have to get feed today,so maybe I'll see if they have a candler there.....see how it's made and maybe talk my hubby into making me one

I hear you on the waiting part,it's funny when you're waiting for something good it seems to take forever but if it's something you're dreading it's here in no time....why is that?

I'm pretty happy with my bator,it's a bit big.....but it works good.I had thought about advertising to incubate eggs for those that didn't have one,just because I enjoy it so much....but I would be afraid of something going wrong! LOL
All is well in the bator this morning

 

[Inkheart]

Honestly i was going to take a oatmeal cylinder - it has a cardboard bottom- cut a hole in it --- and then take the shade off a small lamp - stick it up in there and put the egg in the hole? Course in a dark room!

 

[Valley Girl]

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Well that sounds like it would work great........I think I have something like that....someone gave us a bottle of wine at Christmas and it came in a cylinder type thingy.

Now where the heck did I put it?!

 

[Inkheart]

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Well that sounds like it would work great........I think I have something like that....someone gave us a bottle of wine at Christmas and it came in a cylinder type thingy.

Now where the heck did I put it?!

I just saw a picture of a candler where someone put the rubber part of an unused plunger(toilet) on a flashlight and it works great!

 

[Pascal PicklePants]

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Good luck, I can't wait to see pics of newly hatched turkeys! I know chickens look like dinosaurs, I can't imagine what a 1 hour old turkey looks like.

 

[Pascal PicklePants]

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Inkheart, I did not really candle on my last hatch. I had welsummers and ameraucanas, and they were very hard to candle. I had a peek at them with a really strong flashlight right before I set them just to see if there were any really porous ones (there were and i set them anyway, most didn't hatch, but some did). But then I did not candle again until day 17 right before lockdown. I knew that if I candled in between, say at day 7, like a lot of people, i would just second guess all of them. At day 17 it is very, VERY obvious which eggies are viable and which are not. So, at day 17 out with the clear ones and in with the dark ones.........All that being said, my current incy is filled with much lighter colored eggs, so I will probably candle at day 7 or 10.

 

[Inkheart]

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Inkheart, I did not really candle on my last hatch. I had welsummers and ameraucanas, and they were very hard to candle. I had a peek at them with a really strong flashlight right before I set them just to see if there were any really porous ones (there were and i set them anyway, most didn't hatch, but some did). But then I did not candle again until day 17 right before lockdown. I knew that if I candled in between, say at day 7, like a lot of people, i would just second guess all of them. At day 17 it is very, VERY obvious which eggies are viable and which are not. So, at day 17 out with the clear ones and in with the dark ones.........All that being said, my current incy is filled with much lighter colored eggs, so I will probably candle at day 7 or 10.

How is it very obvioous on day 17 to know they are viable? What should i look for - seems the Serama eggs dont like to be "messed with " much - so many dont candle