Come hatch along with us!!! Last sets of the year! 10-18 to 11-7

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Picking up my rir eggs this evening, and going to collect more from the neighbors today..... the numbers they are growing lol

 

[Lil'ChickFarm]

I have 12 fertile serama eggs that are ten days incubated as of today. Lock down is on the 31st.
My last Serama's didn't all make it. Some shrink wrapped and two hatched. So we will see what happens this time.

 

[Runawaylobster]

I was so excited to candle the eggs tonight,, but they are so dark I can barely
see a thing. I can see they all look like they are fertile but can't tell if they are
alive .... I guess i just put them back in there and wait???

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

My best tool for candling is my mini maglight L.E.D. with the rubber guard. Nearly perfect for candling and blazes light even through brown shells with little problem.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

[SIZE]I'm in! Set 9 OEs under a broodie on Tuesday, makes my hatch date November 13th.[/SIZE]

 

[maryhysong]

Woot~ the BCM eggs came today so I've set everything in the incubator!

12 pale green~ lavender ameraucana X EE (shipped) (one cracked, some dirty)
13 lovely dark Black Copper Marans (shipped) (clean, no visible cracks)
7 very light brown barred banty X LF Buff Orpington (mine) it's possible a couple of these could be my BO pullets first 'big girl' eggs, but I'm doubting it. However it will be easy to tell at hatch if they are pure buff; they'll be yellow and the rest of these will be black or grizzled.

Hatch date; Nov 15

Hatching in a borrowed still air Hovabator.

Based on a lot of reading I'll turn the banty eggs twice a day like I did my first hatch; they are laying flat in the incubator. All the shipped eggs are sitting in cardboard egg cartons and I won't turn them for at least 4 days, to give them a chance to settle and get their air cells back where they belong. Even then I will probably just tilt the cartons gently from end to end each day. I'll probably take them out of the cartons when we get to lock down, unless some of you old timers think I should go ahead and leave them upright for hatch.

 

[crissycriss]

Just candled my newer eggs so far they are all developing whoo hooo!!!! Hatch dates Nov 3, 10, nov 12, 17 ,18 and 19.I so hope most make it to lock down and hatch..

 

[Brookhavens]

I have 12 fertile serama eggs that are ten days incubated as of today. Lock down is on the 31st.
My last Serama's didn't all make it. Some shrink wrapped and two hatched. So we will see what happens this time.

What are you running your humidity at? I bought 41 Serama eggs from 3 different people and I am down to 27 eggs. The first set of 10 go into lockdown this Saturday. I will be candling them before to see if there are anymore quitters. I am praying that I get a few to hatch. Seramas are very difficult to hatch and shipped eggs make it even worse. A few days ago I found a local breeder and if I don't get anything out of these eggs I am going to contact him and see about getting some eggs from him.

 

[Brookhavens]

I was so excited to candle the eggs tonight,, but they are so dark I can barely
see a thing. I can see they all look like they are fertile but can't tell if they are
alive .... I guess i just put them back in there and wait???

I have found with the darker eggs you need 2 light sources to see through. What I do is place the eggs on my homemade candler and then use my mini Mag flashlight on top. You can't see everything but you can tell if something is alive in there. I had just posted in another thread about where I got my flashlights. They were like $1.40 on ebay and even came with 3 AAA batteries.

 

[Brookhavens]

My best tool for candling is my mini maglight L.E.D. with the rubber guard. Nearly perfect for candling and blazes light even through brown shells with little problem.

I love my mini mags. I bought a Cree last month and finally have Marans eggs set so I will be able to use it next week when I candle.