EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[BantyChooks]

@Sally Sunshine, I think the VR means "virtual reality"

-Kathy

Scuse my ignorance, but what is that?

 

[Pensmaster]

More quilted table runner pls.

The quilting is the wife's department.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Good morning everyone!

Sally, hope your dog is okay.

-Kathy

she is, just sucks thank you

cool mug!!! @MotorcycleChick

@Sally Sunshine , I think the VR means "virtual reality"

-Kathy

interesting

@Sally Sunshine
sorry about your dog, glad the goats burped for you.

I want to candle my geese eggs... any chance you think I'd see any development by now, since I put them thursday night?

let them go longer love, if you do just hold the light on top and look down into them dont pick them up

 

[campingshaws]

More quilted table runner pls.

The quilting is the wife's department.

LOVE

 

[kajira]

she is, just sucks thank you

cool mug!!! @MotorcycleChick

interesting

let them go longer love, if you do just hold the light on top and look down into them dont pick them up

They are laying on their side in my incubator. They don't fit upright in there. lol

 

[Nksg75]

Ok, this might be pic heavy, however I candled again this morning, and see a big difference. Now I am thinking it maybe day 15-16? Honestly, I don't know what draw down looks like. I will look it up and see.
I am putting the pics of yesterday and today. See the difference?
YESTERDAY:

TODAY:

And this one is of the bottom of egg this morning:

Ok, what day do you think it's on now?
Thanks everyone.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

what is PS VR?

nice mug!

not if you saw movement let them go for a while ccandle later tonight

I am hoping Paddler will chime in on this one, perhaps benny as well. 

@Sally Sunshine, I think the VR means "virtual reality"

-Kathy

Yes, ps vr is Playstation virtual reality. It's really rather cool. I don't have time to find a good video of it right now but check it out on YouTube sometime

 

[casportpony]

@Sally Sunshine

sorry about your dog, glad the goats burped for you.

I want to candle my geese eggs... any chance you think I'd see any development by now, since I put them thursday night?

Yes, you might see a little something, but it really would be best just to leave them alone until day 7 or later. I like to candle a lot, but I only do it with eggs I don't care about, like my mutt chicken eggs and duck eggs. Don't need more of those, so no harm done if I kill an egg by messing with it too much, but my pea eggs, those I treat differently.

-Kathy

 

[BantyChooks]

Ok, this might be pic heavy, however I candled again this morning, and see a big difference. Now I am thinking it maybe day 15-16? Honestly, I don't know what draw down looks like. I will look it up and see.
I am putting the pics of yesterday and today. See the difference?
YESTERDAY:

TODAY:

And this one is of the bottom of egg this morning:

Ok, what day do you think it's on now?
Thanks everyone.

Strange, that almost looks like day 17 candle.

 

[Blooie]

ok Im sure its early for this.. I've had stand last 6 eggs in my little junky incubator. today is day 24. My seramas usually go early! I candled last night and I saw dark at the bottom and veins and movement in 1 or 2 I think... should I do the "float" test???

Did anyone see this question a few pages back? I haven't seen an answer so I'll take a stab at it...

If it was me, I'd eave them alone yet. If your incubator is kinda "junky" in your words, your temps might have been a little low and slowed development slightly. If you do try the water candling (and there is a distinct difference between water candling and float testing!) then check every egg first for hard-to-see cracks or tiny pips before you put them in the warm water. Put one in at a time -- you aren't testing for freshness, you are checking for signs of life, which would be little ripples around the egg on the surface of the water that indicate movement inside the egg. Give it a few seconds in there for the water to settle from the egg going in, then watch. Dry the egg, mark it with your finding, and get it back in the incubator. Then do the next one.