Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[mklorber]

Teacher removed them from the turner Monday morning. Temp has held at 99.5 to 100.0. She checked it everyday but I only looked on the 3 days a week that I dropped my daughter off. Humidity stayed around 40 during the first 18 days. She added more water when she took them off the turner. Since then humidity has been in the mid 60s.

 

[mklorber]

The lady I bought the eggs from said if I set them on a Thursday then they hatch on a Thursday. This has been a trial of patience for me because I'm not the primary caretaker of the bator. I'm nervous to open it up now to take them out of the cartons because I keep reading about not disturbing things during lockdown.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

Teacher removed them from the turner Monday morning.  Temp has held at 99.5 to 100.0.  She checked it everyday but I only looked on the 3 days a week that I dropped my daughter off.  Humidity stayed around 40 during the first 18 days.  She added more water when she took them off the turner.  Since then humidity has been in the mid 60s.

Was it still air or have s fan?

 

[subhanalah]

Do you have all of the troughs full?
If you don't want advice, then just wait it out until day 26

 

[mklorber]

She filled both troughs with water per directions. The model has a fan. It was preset with the temperature. Since this is my first time we have just been following water the manufacturer recommended. I'm a little confused by your post...I appreciate any advice that is why I am posting here.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

She filled both troughs with water per directions. The model has a fan. It was preset with the temperature. Since this is my first time we have just been following water the manufacturer recommended. I'm a little confused by your post...I appreciate any advice that is why I am posting here.

I want you to know that you can candle them, just when opening the bator to check viabilty and grab one, wipe the side of the bator with a hot wet rag and it will get you instant humidity, just dont get eggs wet, you dont have pips?

Have you added a thermometer that has been calibrated? most incubator thermos are off and with incubating even .5 degree low will push hatch a day or two later.

Dont fret yet, just candle some eggs really quick

Here is the hatching 101 article and a paste from it on how to candle and what your looking at
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/hatching-eggs-101

Candle days are 1, 7, 14 & 18th day
You will need a Candler, bright light, LED flashlight or build your own Candler. Find Instructions HERE.https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/how-to-make-a-homemade-egg-candler-using-common-household-materials
Turn on your Candler and shut off the lights in the room so it is dark, evenings are best. Hold the flashlight/Candler like the image below and set the egg air cell/fat end down on your hand. This will prevent any light leakage from the flashlight. Your hand protects the egg from the hard surface of the light and helps more of the light to go through the egg.

CAUTION: Be very careful when you handle the egg
so you don't accidentally crack it or DROP it!

Slowly & gently rotate the egg until you can see inside the egg. On Day 1 candling you will mark air cells and check for cracked or porous eggs. Lightly mark the air cell with a pencil. Candle quickly if the light gets hot, you will kill the embryo. On Day 1 candle you will NOT see much inside the egg but you may have a glimpse of yolk moving as you gently rotate lightly colored eggs.

Chicken Embryo Development, views from the Inside AND Out. *Graphic Photos**
http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/03/chicken-embryo-development-views-from.html


Sites to refer to for Candling Images and Videos

Progression Though Incubation
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261876/chicks-are-here-egg-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

Great pics of CANDLING and good and bad eggs.......
http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/Avian/pfs32.htm

Metzer Candling :
http://www.metzerfarms.com/Candling.cfm

Development of a Chick:
http://chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=73884.0

Candling Pics:
http://shilala.homestead.com/candling.html

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[casportpony]

She filled both troughs with water per directions.  The model has a fan.  It was preset with the temperature.  Since this is my first time we have just been following water the manufacturer recommended.  I'm a little confused by your post...I appreciate any advice that is why I am posting here.

I think she was teasing you and didn't mean it the way it read.

-Kathy

 

[Sally Sunshine]

UPDATE on little booger duck

he is moving around in the bator somehow lol
I look in he is at one spot and then I watch him and he doesnt move and then I get tired of standing and when I go check he is elsewhere!

So IDK

but look at the am pic and the just now pics
WED MORNING



WED NIGHT

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

UPDATE on little booger duck he is moving around in the bator somehow lol I look in he is at one spot and then I watch him and he doesnt move and then I get tired of standing and when I go check he is elsewhere! So IDK but look at the am pic and the just now pics WED MORNING WED NIGHT

Sounds like he is trying his hardest and he looks better.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: His eyes are open brighter I think, I may be seeing things, I thought he was a gonner not too long ago! I am gonna see if he will swollow some grow gel, he didnt have any since supper because he seemed out of it.