Hello and welcome everyone to this journey of excitement, surprise and mystery.
Ok I know that may be a little overstated but this is exciting for me.
So let's dive into the mystery that is incubation and hope for a pleasant surprise at the end.
Now to set up this tale.
I decided a couple of weeks ago to jump head long into this and buy some hatching eggs online and try to hatch them myself. I have never really done much incubating before and what I did years ago was a disaster.
I started by buying 10 Japanese bantam eggs. And a few days later also won a bid of 6 additional Japanese bantam eggs.
These arrived in the mail and I ended up with a total of 22 eggs!
I started the first batch on June13 and the second batch was started on the 16th in the same incubator.
I did (what I thought was) day 12 candling (actually day 11) today and found several eggs that was no good. I found one with no development in the first batch and 2 with no development in the second batch along with 5 others that had terminated around days 4-9 in the first batch.
These all had a red blood ring with little to no visible embryo development. I did have one that had an embryo that could have been at day 8-9.
I may also have two additional that terminated on day 9-10 but I was unsure if they was truly dead so I placed them back in for now.
As it stands I started with 22 in the incubator and now have 14. How many will make it? Who knows but hoping for 10-11 at the end.
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I have a second incubator set up standard large breed chickens hatching eggs. With these I ordered 10 Australorps (got 20) and 10 Bielefelders (got 11) for a total of 31 hatching eggs. These are currently on day 6 having started on June 18.
I have not candled these yet but will be soon so that I can discard any non developing eggs.
Lastly I have a 3rd incubator with 49 coturnix quail eggs. (I had 50 but dropped one one the floor unfortunately)
I hope to keep this thread updated with the development of this project and that you all enjoy this journey of discovery and suspense with me!
Ok I know that may be a little overstated but this is exciting for me.
So let's dive into the mystery that is incubation and hope for a pleasant surprise at the end.
Now to set up this tale.
I decided a couple of weeks ago to jump head long into this and buy some hatching eggs online and try to hatch them myself. I have never really done much incubating before and what I did years ago was a disaster.
I started by buying 10 Japanese bantam eggs. And a few days later also won a bid of 6 additional Japanese bantam eggs.
These arrived in the mail and I ended up with a total of 22 eggs!
I started the first batch on June13 and the second batch was started on the 16th in the same incubator.
I did (what I thought was) day 12 candling (actually day 11) today and found several eggs that was no good. I found one with no development in the first batch and 2 with no development in the second batch along with 5 others that had terminated around days 4-9 in the first batch.
These all had a red blood ring with little to no visible embryo development. I did have one that had an embryo that could have been at day 8-9.
I may also have two additional that terminated on day 9-10 but I was unsure if they was truly dead so I placed them back in for now.
As it stands I started with 22 in the incubator and now have 14. How many will make it? Who knows but hoping for 10-11 at the end.
___________________________________
I have a second incubator set up standard large breed chickens hatching eggs. With these I ordered 10 Australorps (got 20) and 10 Bielefelders (got 11) for a total of 31 hatching eggs. These are currently on day 6 having started on June 18.
I have not candled these yet but will be soon so that I can discard any non developing eggs.
Lastly I have a 3rd incubator with 49 coturnix quail eggs. (I had 50 but dropped one one the floor unfortunately)
I hope to keep this thread updated with the development of this project and that you all enjoy this journey of discovery and suspense with me!
