August Hatch-A-Long

[Puddin Fluff]

Is that a Polish in your Avatar? It's really cute!

He is a young Mottled Houdan. Here he is as a young adult.

 

[Iko127]

I am doing the same thing, so I am curious to see how our hatch turns out! I put my shipped eggs in the bator on sunday and was given the advise to leave them big end up and turn them just a bit...not a full 180...so the developing chick doesn't stick to the side...for the first 5 days to help with loose air cells. First time I have used shipped eggs, so going from the advice of a very experienced person

Hi...I got my second bunch today and have them resting!! I was wondering your opinion about putting them rt in the bator since I'm not running the turner... The only reason is the seller shipped them in a small box and when I put them in the tray to sit they were warm?? I'm just wondering if it would hurt to just go ahead and put them in incubator and just sit. This seller wasn't very good, only gave me one extra and it was cracked

The first seller sent 5 extra with one cracked!

 

[calichicken]

Hi...I got my second bunch today and have them resting!! I was wondering your opinion about putting them rt in the bator since I'm not running the turner... The only reason is the seller shipped them in a small box and when I put them in the tray to sit they were warm?? I'm just wondering if it would hurt to just go ahead and put them in incubator and just sit. This seller wasn't very good, only gave me one extra and it was cracked

The first seller sent 5 extra with one cracked!

This is my first time with shipped, butt I was told to let them settle in a cool room for 24-48hrs(depending on shipping time) to get the air cell stable before development started, then put them in the bator fat end up and . turn just slightly so chick starting to develop doesn't attach to the side of the egg. Today I candle...YIPPIEEEE...and then start the turning process. So will see how it goes!

 

[calichicken]

Loi've never tried to take pics of it. I'll get my daughter to help. Our "candler" is just an led flashlifht, a dark room, and my hand.

. Works well enough for my unscientific process. I just can't see in the darkest shelld eggs so they just ride along until hatch day.
Wakey wakey! Candle day! Now we must wait until dark.

Hurray Hurray...its candle day!!!!!!!

Using the unscientific flashlight and hand method to so now it just needs to get dark

But in 5 -9 hours it will be daylight and then I have to wait allllll day!

Feeling your pain!!! Waiting..ugh!!!

buahaha! You are incorrigible. Didn't you read in the candling fine print that candling day must always follow at least 5 - 9 hours of sound sleep? You know, like Christmas morning? There is no fudging this here; bed time for you!

LOL

Think she listened????

 

[WendyF]

Hurray Hurray...its candle day!!!!!!!

Using the unscientific flashlight and hand method to so now it just needs to get dark

Feeling your pain!!! Waiting..ugh!!!

LOL

Think she listened????

heck no!

 

[Sylviaanne]

heck no!

Me?! I did listen. LOL I have several threads I have subscribed to and several people I am following so I had a ton of email notices to go through. Um, well, I didn't go to bed. LOL I was up to, um, guess about 4 - 5am? I don't remember but before I went to bed it was daylight and I went out and let the chickens out. Probably surprised the heck out of them since I don't usually let them out until late morning to make sure they lay most of the eggs in the coop. I usually find a nest of eggs here and there in the yard anyways.

I do wish I had tried to candle them last night as I had a chick hatch! It came from a nest my Indian Runner is now broody on but at the time I took the chicken eggs out of the nest she was on and off but I guess the other hens laying in the nest kept it warm enough for it to germinate.

After everything I have read about washing eggs and the chick hatching at day 15 in the incubator, I am surprised it's alive. There had been a broken egg in the nest and I took two chicken eggs out of the nest. They were nasty so I decided to try the diluted bleach water wash. I didn't write down how hot of water I used but I didn't wear gloves to protect me from the heat and the chick is alive so the water couldn't have been too hot. I guess with the hot water and diluted bleach no bacteria went through the shell. The little thing is in one of those plastic ice cream buckets with a heat lamp near it, not on it and it has it's very own little white teddy bear to keep it company until, hopefully, the other egg hatches.

 

[WendyF]

Here is my unscientifical candle prior to putting the eggs in the bator on Wednesday, 7/23. I am not a good photographer, have never candled before, & don't have a good camera, so most of my pics didn't turn out at all. But out of these, does anyone see anything that might look like it should? I couldn't see anything that looked like any air cell pics I've seen on the internet.
Egg #5:

Egg #13 Side, then top view:


Egg #14:

Egg #15 side, then top view (do you think this is a speckled sussex egg?):


I'm not sure which #s these 3 eggs are:




Do any of these eggs look viable?

 

[Sylviaanne]

Here is my unscientifical candle prior to putting the eggs in the bator on Wednesday, 7/23. I am not a good photographer, have never candled before, & don't have a good camera, so most of my pics didn't turn out at all. But out of these, does anyone see anything that might look like it should? I couldn't see anything that looked like any air cell pics I've seen on the internet.
Egg #5:

Egg #13 Side, then top view:


Egg #14:

Egg #15 side, then top view (do you think this is a speckled sussex egg?):


I'm not sure which #s these 3 eggs are:




Do any of these eggs look viable?

When they are freshly laid, I find it very hard to see an air sack, like most of them don't have any yet. I suggest you go looking for the strongest flashlight you can find. I found one at Lowe's with 101 lumens and I can see through the eggs pretty good. Eventually, I want to get the kind that plugs into the wall so I don't have to worry about the batteries getting low when I am using it. I don't know of any sure way to tell if an egg is fertile without breaking it open, that is until it starts to develop.

 

[WendyF]

When they are freshly laid, I find it very hard to see an air sack, like most of them don't have any yet. I suggest you go looking for the strongest flashlight you can find. I found one at Lowe's with 101 lumens and I can see through the eggs pretty good. Eventually, I want to get the kind that plugs into the wall so I don't have to worry about the batteries getting low when I am using it. I don't know of any sure way to tell if an egg is fertile without breaking it open, that is until it starts to develop.

Thank you! It is reassuring to hear that you usually can't see an air cell in a new egg. I was looking REALLY hard for them,

LOL. I do solemnly swear to not attempt another candle until day 7...

 

[calichicken]

Thank you! It is reassuring to hear that you usually can't see an air cell in a new egg. I was looking REALLY hard for them,

LOL. I do solemnly swear to not attempt another candle until day 7...

LOL!!! And what would day 7 be for you? This way if you feel the urge to break your oath we can support