Hopefulchickmama
Hatching
- Feb 24, 2024
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Hello. Its my first time hatching.
I have 3 mixed breed chicken eggs that have made it this far. (All eggs were different colours) the surviving ones are two normal shop bought egg colour and a white one.
They are in an incubater I bought on amazon. And I have an extra thermometer and humidity checker inside of it that I added.
It's day 22. The eggs are showing no signs of doing anything.
I woke up this morning to my extra thermometer in there saying 35.5. But the actual incubater again 37.5. I personally think it had fallen low. As my room was also a bit cooler. Will keep my window shut now. Lesson learned.
So after a few hours the temperature was back up to normal.
So I water tested the eggs. Two were moving. One wasn't. I candled the one that didn't move. And it had a very small amount of movement, it also has lots of veins. It's the white one (so I just can't see if there's still lots of veins in the others due to colour.)
I was reading a lot online and read how making a hole can help them absorb up the veins and everything.
I then made a tiny hole in all 3 of them. Right in the middle of the air cell. (In the shell not membrane)
I looked in and saw they all have the same white membrane, a tiny bit sagging. Looked normal compared to other photos online.
I put them back in the incubater to get used to the holes for an hour.
I then read to dab the membrane with a cotton bud and water. So I did that very gently. And with a very tiny bit of water.
a spot on all the eggs membrane then became transparent when it was wet.
I put the eggs straight back in to stay warm.
And I can see in the holes with the incubater closed.
The two eggs that are moving a lot absorbed that water very fast and the white membrane became white again within a minute. The slow moving egg took a few minutes to turn white again (maybe it had a bigger dab of water?) Or maybe its less alive?
I can see tiny movement in all 3 eggs through the holes with the incubater shut.
So basically, what now? I really hate to touch them, but I don't want them to die.
My heart swells with joy when I see them moving.
I have 3 mixed breed chicken eggs that have made it this far. (All eggs were different colours) the surviving ones are two normal shop bought egg colour and a white one.
They are in an incubater I bought on amazon. And I have an extra thermometer and humidity checker inside of it that I added.
It's day 22. The eggs are showing no signs of doing anything.
I woke up this morning to my extra thermometer in there saying 35.5. But the actual incubater again 37.5. I personally think it had fallen low. As my room was also a bit cooler. Will keep my window shut now. Lesson learned.
So after a few hours the temperature was back up to normal.
So I water tested the eggs. Two were moving. One wasn't. I candled the one that didn't move. And it had a very small amount of movement, it also has lots of veins. It's the white one (so I just can't see if there's still lots of veins in the others due to colour.)
I was reading a lot online and read how making a hole can help them absorb up the veins and everything.
I then made a tiny hole in all 3 of them. Right in the middle of the air cell. (In the shell not membrane)
I looked in and saw they all have the same white membrane, a tiny bit sagging. Looked normal compared to other photos online.
I put them back in the incubater to get used to the holes for an hour.
I then read to dab the membrane with a cotton bud and water. So I did that very gently. And with a very tiny bit of water.
a spot on all the eggs membrane then became transparent when it was wet.
I put the eggs straight back in to stay warm.
And I can see in the holes with the incubater closed.
The two eggs that are moving a lot absorbed that water very fast and the white membrane became white again within a minute. The slow moving egg took a few minutes to turn white again (maybe it had a bigger dab of water?) Or maybe its less alive?
I can see tiny movement in all 3 eggs through the holes with the incubater shut.
So basically, what now? I really hate to touch them, but I don't want them to die.
My heart swells with joy when I see them moving.