First, Second, Third and on and on Incubator hatch help appreciated

ScottandSam · Sep 3, 2017

Samantha and I candled the eggs tonight day 2 1/2. The 14 silkie eggs all had attached air sacks and smaller sacks too. The brahmas were another story. Of the 11, 5 had detached air sacks, or say floppy not all the way attached. 5 looked good with attached air sacks. And the last looked scrambled. We turn turners on for the good eggs . its set to the lest amount of turns i can do. That is once every 3 hours or every 180 mins. We removed one rack and the floppy eggs went into half a egg carton sat on the floor. I also adjusted the humidity down to 35%. Next candling at 7 days.
Hope to see all air sacks attached and bigger sack too.

Scott

WVduckchick · Sep 10, 2017

Following....

ScottandSam · Sep 10, 2017

ok So we did our 7 day candling. Excited and bummed all at the same time.

We pulled theses......................

and these we marked to look at 10 days...........

Now looking at this pic 3 looks like a blood ring. but a lot of our brahmas were like picture 4. and pic 4 stumbles us. almost looks clear still like not fertile???? but don't know.

When we cracked open eggs 1 and 2 they were scrambled. egg 2 had started to develop a small chick but for whatever reason (I assume rough shipping) it died.

Well we like to here what everyone thinks especially on egg pic 4.
Scott

ScottandSam · Sep 10, 2017

sorry for day 7 late post. But today was day 10 and we Had some eggs set aside with"?" that we wanted to give a few more day and look at.
We compared two eggs one brahma one silkie that were not ? to the one we had a question about. I didn't get any pics of those but the was crazy amount of movement in those eggs.
We pulled 3 for blood rings and inspected them in bowels, there was no foul smell so although they were dead probable not that long.
blood rings..........................

and then a few we put back in although I don't think on next candling day 15 for us we will se anything different in these.

well there you have the bad and what looks scrambled or non fertilized I believe. Out of the 11 brahma eggs we still have 4 good ones and 3 off the not sure look non fertile ones above. Out of 14 silkies we have 12 very active eggs. Not sure at this point but We may not be able to order eggs from Florida again were as the ones from new York are still 12/14.
Either way I'm not jumping to conclusions yet.

Scott

ScottandSam · Sep 10, 2017

Oh cant forget this one.It has a crazy air sack. You want to talk about saddle shape this is a text book example the light in the pic if fully shining into the egg. Like in the pic in the previous post what you see white is not the light bleeding off the egg but it is shinning in the air sack..................................................

I will need to research this as I believe I need to hatch it standing up. Maybe someone can correct me or not. And that is granted it makes it to lockdown. But there was movement in the brahma egg tonight.

Scott

WVduckchick · Sep 11, 2017

By day 10, you should definitely see some veins, at minimum, unless your light is very weak, which it doesn't appear to be.

Keep in mind on the saddled ones, that whole saddled area is not all air cell. It's also where the air cell has pulled the membrane away from the shell inside. Try focusing on the round air cell itself. i usually circle the saddled air cells, and dot the line around the saddled part.

aart · Sep 11, 2017

Those are great candling pics....too bad you didn't show some 'live' ones.

ScottandSam · Sep 11, 2017

aart said:
Those are great candling pics....too bad you didn't show some 'live' ones.

You are right. I'll get some at day 14 and at the end of the month during our next batch to incubate I'll include both for reference.
Scott

ScottandSam · Sep 16, 2017

Well we candles last night day 15. We are down to 3 Brahma eggs left and 11 silkie. I'll be surprised to hatch any Brahma. The eggs were really scrambled in shipping from Florida. Here is a few shots of good eggs at day 17. Most are silkie eggs but 3 are bramhas that I'll post tonight.