California - Northern

[ronott1]

Those 53 bleached

eggs are on lockdown. Well a few less.

Super strange goings on in there. See if there is any feedback on this one:

All MFL eggs which were below the tetris stacking:

Removed 4, no need for eggtopsy with these light cream eggs. Can see right through them.
1 egg had a crack (how in the world did I miss it?) that appeared to be expanding. Very happy to find it before the explosion

The chick began developing but quit at embryo stage.
1 egg quit at embryo about 1/4" big. Obvious embryo at first candling.
1 quit at embryo about 1" big, can see bumbs on the embryo like a head.
1 quit at 1/2 the size of the egg.
Very strange to have them quit in succession like that. I wondered if the eggs on top may have had something to do with it.

I noticed that about half of the eggs appear to be quitters as the chicks don't quite fill up the whole space like I think they should, and they are not moving.

A few questions regarding that - and trouble shooting for future reference.

I noticed a couple days ago (Day 16?) that the temp dropped to 99.6 for a while. Odd. The room must have been colder. Is that a problem?

Also, humidity. I'm aiming for 30% or less but one day the water ran completely out and I was gone so there was probably no humidity all day.

And they were on my daughters dresser and it occurred to me that the vibrations from opening/closing drawers could impact them. Although, all the air sacks are intact so I don't see how.

Of course early exposure to bleach fumes could have affected lung development which could wait until just before hatch to cause demise - I suppose that's possible. Probably won't bleach the bator so heavily next time. Live and learn!

I welcome feed back.

The only thing the would be a problem is location. vibration during the first 7 is especially hard on hatching eggs.

I can't wait to see pictures of all those chicks!

 

[ronott1]

Manychitlens
I was collecting eggs everyday. In fact many times a day and it didn't matter. She, and a few others are broody. An olive egger, a cream Legbar, and Monica my Isabel orpington. It took 3 days in a wire bottom guinea pig cage raised off of the ground in her coop to break her. After 2 days she was broken but I left her a little longer to be sure. Now I wait for her to start laying again

we shall see.

They caught the Broody Bug!

I hope it does not "infect" my flock this year.....

 

[ronott1]

I have 19 baby barnies this morning, so far out of 42 eggs. I took my incubator in to my daughter's kindergarten class yesterday. Not the best time to be moving the bator, but the kids loved it. In the interest of science, The teacher opened the bator and held one egg in her hand as the chick was hatching for the class to see. The kids were really amazed at the chick hatching in front of them. I left the bator in the class overnight ( temps and humidity ended up being all over the place). My bator is usually very, very steady, but due to being in a unheated class room the temps dropped as low as 97 then shot up after the heat was turned back on. The thermometer / hygrometer recorded the highs and lows. Some how the temp got up to as high as 102! My bator has never been that hot before...Still 19 chicks were hatched by morning to the delight of the kids. I brought the bator home and got the temps / humidity stabilized. More are now pipping and zipping, so I hope the rough night and ride to/ from school didn't mess them up too much.

Trisha

I have heard of problems like this in schools. Most schools do not heat at night and then it gets too warm in the day time.

It is good hat they are hatching and you were smart to wait until it was close to hatch time to bring them in. They are able to take temp fluctuations better at the end of hatch.

 

[TheKeeper]

I love your egg plate!

Where did you find it?

 

[PetRock]

I have 19 baby barnies this morning, so far out of 42 eggs. I took my incubator in to my daughter's kindergarten class yesterday. Not the best time to be moving the bator, but the kids loved it. In the interest of science, The teacher opened the bator and held one egg in her hand as the chick was hatching for the class to see. The kids were really amazed at the chick hatching in front of them. I left the bator in the class overnight ( temps and humidity ended up being all over the place). My bator is usually very, very steady, but due to being in a unheated class room the temps dropped as low as 97 then shot up after the heat was turned back on. The thermometer / hygrometer recorded the highs and lows. Some how the temp got up to as high as 102! My bator has never been that hot before...Still 19 chicks were hatched by morning to the delight of the kids. I brought the bator home and got the temps / humidity stabilized. More are now pipping and zipping, so I hope the rough night and ride to/ from school didn't mess them up too much.

Trisha

That's exciting news! Go, babies, go!!!

 

[PetRock]

I love your egg plate!

Where did you find it?

Marshalls last year

 

[tls_ranch]

I have 19 baby barnies this morning, so far out of 42 eggs. I took my incubator in to my daughter's kindergarten class yesterday. Not the best time to be moving the bator, but the kids loved it. In the interest of science, The teacher opened the bator and held one egg in her hand as the chick was hatching for the class to see. The kids were really amazed at the chick hatching in front of them. I left the bator in the class overnight ( temps and humidity ended up being all over the place). My bator is usually very, very steady, but due to being in a unheated class room the temps dropped as low as 97 then shot up after the heat was turned back on. The thermometer / hygrometer recorded the highs and lows. Some how the temp got up to as high as 102! My bator has never been that hot before...Still 19 chicks were hatched by morning to the delight of the kids. I brought the bator home and got the temps / humidity stabilized. More are now pipping and zipping, so I hope the rough night and ride to/ from school didn't mess them up too much.


Trisha

I have heard of problems like this in schools. Most schools do not heat at night and then it gets too warm in the day time.

It is good hat they are hatching and you were smart to wait until it was close to hatch time to bring them in. They are able to take temp fluctuations better at the end of hatch.

Yes, that's one reason I took the bator in " last minute". It's better to have stable temps for the 19-20 days at home. One of the last times I did this for a class, every egg hatched. But the teacher had given up trying to hatch in class due to years of disappointments. It would be a better teaching lesson to have the eggs in class and track development over the whole 21 days, but it can be near impossible with the heating and cooling being turned off. Last year the classroom's pet fish even died because it got too hot when the AC was turned off.

Trisha

 

[tommysgirl]

Okay i know its early but idk if my eggs are going to hatch now. when i looked last night (i candled them cuz i was anxious) and none of them had internally pipprd but the banty chick was moving but the buff orp x rir i didnt se movement in . should i br wprried about them or is it to early? (Day 20)

Im really hoping on that ron i dont want to lose another batch of chicks

Nikki sit on your hands

You do compromise your hatch when you handle the eggs at this point. The reason we stop turning and mama hen does too is so that the chicks can orient themselves correctly in the eggs and get out of their shells easily. When you pick them up and turn them to candle them you might be hurting their chances to do that. We all know how tempting it is but for the best results it is best to leave them be now.

One of my daughters (26 yrs old) won't eat any of our eggs. She doesn't want to know what butt her eggs came out of. It boggles my mind that she would rather eat store eggs laid by abused hens. My youngest daughter (12 yrs old) doesn't really want to eat the fertile eggs but she will use them for baking.. She can't get over the fact that they could hatch into chicks. By eating them, we are not allowing them to grow into chicks! She will adjust. She is getting used to processing the extra cockerels and actually watched the killing process the last time we did it. The first time, all she could handle was washing and bagging them in the kitchen.

My MIL is repulsed by knowing where her food comes from. Didn't want to know about the steer I got from Kim and would rather eat store bought eggs because she thinks they are more "sanitary." I am boggled as well.

 

[EZFarms]

Nikki sit on your hands   You do compromise your hatch when you handle the eggs at this point.  The reason we stop turning and mama hen does too  is so that the chicks can orient themselves correctly in the eggs and get out of their shells easily. When you pick them up and turn them to candle them you might be hurting their chances to do that.  We all know how tempting it is but for the best results it is best to leave them be now.
My MIL is repulsed by knowing where her food comes from.   Didn't want to know about the steer I got from Kim and would rather eat  store bought eggs because she thinks they are more "sanitary."  I am boggled as well. 

i moved the light not the egg i was trying to not turn the egg.i keep looking in the incubator hoping to see pips

 

[Audio51]

I have to confess that I am swamped with eggs and having the hardest time not setting them to hatch! Zoro has great fertility and is doing his job in every way! I have one pullet laying an egg with a plum bloom but it is not either of my two Langshans that I have here in town. I hope that I can figure out who is laying it. It is hard to see the bloom in this pic but IRL the color is obvious.

The 3 eggs in the center are the plum looking ones.

This is one of my Cream Legbar mixes and here are her beautiful green eggs.



Finally, these are the eggs I got yesterday from my 3 Wellsummer pullets and a whole plate of their eggs. It is amazing how big these are for pullets who haven't been laying very long.

Beautiful eggs....now you needs some blue ones