Chic bator The adventure Comeing now to a BYC thread near you!! We have viens!!

[gabrielle1976]

I dont trust it to be un supervised for very long but I am hopefull that it will work. I Will try to candle the eggs next saterday and see if I can see anything it can be hard on these spotted quail eggs

 

[gabrielle1976]

Getting ready to check it one last time befor bed . But its not to much of a hassle Im a worry wort and check all my bators alot .

 

[gabrielle1976]

One therm said 96.8 at the outside wall of the bator and one said 98 at the middle of the bator so I think it will be ok as the eggs sit in the middle and have a little on the outside and a little on the inside so they are in 3 diffrent temp climates that are in there even though its 1/2 inch diffrences. I put down a little rubber type self liner so the eggs dont roll around as much. I dropped and broke an egg today so we are down one.

 

[gabrielle1976]

Well the little thing seems to hold temps ok so far. At this point Im not sure what all the complaints are about. Is it flimsy yep, Is the temp not as easy to control as a genisis or such , sure is but so far no horrible spike or drops , just a bit tricky getting it to temp and then haveing to move the eggs around when I turn as there are sevral little micro climants in there . So far so good keeping my fingres crossed.

 

[gabrielle1976]

Still going over here , seems to be ok so far. I check it probly every two hours and turn about 3 or 5 times a day. I cant wait till day 7 so I can candle them and see how its going. That will be next saterday .

 

[sumi]

Good luck! I hope it works well for you

 

[gabrielle1976]

 

[gabrielle1976]

Ok so I coudnt wait til saterday , today is day five so I candled the five eggs. Tiny egg looks clear blue but will give it till day ten, but two of the regular sized eggs I saw viens and the other two were darkish inside though I couldnt see anything so Im hopefull as when they are infertil or dont grow they have a clear blusish kind light when you candle them.

 

[loves2hatch]

I could never see veining in those little cot eggs. Congratulations, It look like you are on your way to some chickies.

 

[gabrielle1976]

Cots are hard . I find the bigger lighter ones to be a bit easery but still difficult some times all I can tell is when I shine a light in it glows kinda blue or it dosnt , If it glows blueish after seven days then you know there isnt anything in there other then that its up to how light the top part of the shell is so you might see viens around the top right under the air cell. Buttons are impossible as far as I am concerned lol tiny . I did a quick check in them again sunday and still seems to be something possibly going on in there . So far with this I think the hardest part is finding all the temps in the little space finding the best spot for the eggs and makeing sure no matter how cold or hot you get keeping the room temp rock steady.About half way there only around nine days to go. Ill try to have the web cam up for it if they start to hatch.