First Time /Shipped Eggs/NR 360

[adirondak5]

The green ones are hard to see into. Mine looked like that, too.

I find the green eggs(EE eggs) easier to see into than the brown(BO eggs) , the brown eggs seem to have splotchy shells when I candle them and it makes it very hard to determine anything inside .

 

[K0k0shka]

I find the green eggs(EE eggs) easier to see into than the brown(BO eggs) , the brown eggs seem to have splotchy shells when I candle them and it makes it very hard to determine anything inside .

Do you have a picture? I’m curious now. Egg shell color and see-through-ness make no sense to me. The green ones looked much lighter than my brown Barnevelder eggs, and yet were much harder to see through when candling. Must be the shell thickness maybe, not the color itself... My eggs were a rainbow and I could see through all but the green ones.

 

[adirondak5]

Do you have a picture? I’m curious now. Egg shell color and see-through-ness make no sense to me. The green ones looked much lighter than my brown Barnevelder eggs, and yet were much harder to see through when candling. Must be the shell thickness maybe, not the color itself... My eggs were a rainbow and I could see through all but the green ones.

I didn't take any pics of the brown eggs because they were so hard to see anything in , when I check the question marked eggs in another day or so I'll take a pic and post it . When we candled the good green eggs as soon as the light was on the eggs it was , yup , there's veins , the brown eggs were like hmmm, turn it , move the light , really study it looking for movement .

 

[aart]

Egg shell color and see-through-ness make no sense to me.

IME there's no logic nor steadfast 'rule'.
Have hatched many colored eggs... blues, greens, olives, browns.
Even in the darkest room with the best light leakage control....
....some candle easily, others you can barely see the air cell.
Can be very frustrating indeed.

 

[adirondak5]

I checked the eggs we had question marked the other day and of the three I thought we had question marked there were actually four . So we candled them and saw movement and veins in two of them . The other two are what I called the splotchy eggs , hard to discern anything but it does look like there is something inside , just a shadowy mass , didn't see any movement . They don't smell at all so I just double question marked them again and will check again in a day or so . Here is a pic of one of the splotchy eggs . Lock down starts Tuesday night so I have a few days left to try and figure these two eggs out .

 

[aart]

The other two are what I called the splotchy eggs ,

Porous shells, sometimes they do fine, sometimes not.

 

[barn206]

I'll be getting 12 EE eggs and 10 BO eggs towards the end of the month . I have a Nurture Right 360 just plugged it in for the first time today just to run for a few days and get familiar with it and check/verify temp and humidity readings , make sure turner is working and so on . I built my coop last summer and have 6 pullets now , this hatch if successful will go to my daughter who I am building a carbon copy of my coop for starting in a week or two . If there are enough pullets I'd like to keep one to integrate with my flock but we'll see . Any cockerels will go in the soup pot when they start to crow . We are also planing on doing the Mareks Vaccination on any newly hatched chicks ourselves , after discussing with my daughter and researching a bit online and talking with @kokoshka about it , we decided for the price and time investment and good and well being of the chicks it would be worth it to us . I'll have lots of questions along the way , still have a lot of research to do . I'll try to keep everything documented here . I have a digital Hygrometer in a baggie with the salt slurry to get it calibrated so I can check the onboard hygrometer , also have an old analog medical thermometer to check temps inside against onboard thermometer along with a digital thermometer . We also have 3 grandsons living here with us and they are quite excited about hatching out chicks , so it'll be an adventure . Here's the Nurture Right just after I plugged it in , 1st impression was its quiet , I've read that they were a tad noisy , I can hear the fan running but it doesn't make much noise , controls are easy to see , easy to use . Hopefully that will carry on . More to come .

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You’re going to love it!!! Great incubator..

 

[adirondak5]

We are in lock down . I candled the eggs one last time , removed the turner rack , put in a no slip shelf liner and got water in resevoir "B" on the 360. We are down to 11 eggs ( 6 EE's and 5 BO's ) . Looking the eggs over at this stage was a little easier with the air cells drawing down and the mass of the developing chick . The 5 eggs we pulled out tonight were quitters (2 were the question marked eggs), we cracked them open to check . They probably quit before the 14 day candle from the looks of development . The good eggs had air cells drawn down more and the chicks taking up most of the rest of the shell , I was struck by the difference between the good eggs and the bad ones when candling at this point . I'm a little disappointed in losing half the eggs getting to this point but on the other hand the kids and I are learning a lot and I can see doing this again . I didn't get any pics tonight because I just wanted to get the eggs back in the incubator ASAP . Humidity with resevoir A & B filled with water is between 60% - 70% . Hopefully come Friday night we'll have some little peepers running around .

 

[K0k0shka]

Shipped eggs, man... ripe for disappointment. But 50% is about right. Hopefully all the rest make it through lockdown! Looking forward to the Friday update!

 

[adirondak5]

Shipped eggs, man... ripe for disappointment. But 50% is about right. Hopefully all the rest make it through lockdown! Looking forward to the Friday update!

Yes , shipped eggs takes a lot of control away from you . Ending up with 50% at lock down is about where my expectations were but wanting more is normal I suppose . Its been quite an adventure so far , my oldest grandson has really taken to it , he gets so excited when we checked the eggs , even cracking open the quitters he's right there inspecting and asking questions .