First Timer Looking For Hatch Buddy!

[Ooopsy_daisy]

Quote:
I'm on Day 2 too.The wait kills me!!

Well at least I'll be starting school on September second so I'll have 8 hours of distraction on weekdays.(7 for school,1 for the homework)Let's go to the beach on our last chance to.

I would be a popcicle if I went to the beach, its suppose to be the hottest month for Michigan weather and its only 53 degrees F here today. I had to adjust my bator a bit in the milkhouse as it dropped a little bit this morning.

 

[FluffyColor]

Quote:
I'm on Day 2 too.The wait kills me!!

Well at least I'll be starting school on September second so I'll have 8 hours of distraction on weekdays.(7 for school,1 for the homework)Let's go to the beach on our last chance to.

I would be a popcicle if I went to the beach, its suppose to be the hottest month for Michigan weather and its only 53 degrees F here today. I had to adjust my bator a bit in the milkhouse as it dropped a little bit this morning.

Well it's sunny in Monroe.My dad is taking me to the pool.Imagine if you woke up tommorow morning and you heard "peep,peep,peep-peep.."You look in the bator and you see a fluffball and a broken egg!And the cute fluffball is your favorite breed!We all wish.

 

[Bleenie]

Update time..

I candled the eggs this morning, the scovy & bantam eggs are doing *wonderful*

! especially the banty eggs, showing nice, little, red spiders in all of them.

bad update time...

the LF eggs i got from my friend Julie were mostly infertile. This happened last time too, i think she might have some bad hens? it's always the green eggs..plus 2 brown ones this time.

and don't worry! the green eggs are suprisingly easy to see into, and there were about 4 that were obviously good, with little specks in them & pretty well 'in place'. in the bad eggs all the yolks were all over the place.

the eggs i got from the old guy up the road looked mostly good, but theyre thick, kinda dark, brown shells & kinda hard to see through. im keeping my fingers crossed

.

I really wanted those dang green eggs to hatch! i want some more 'EE mutts' SOOO BADDD

. I will have to try somewhere else next time.


Haven't checked the turken eggs again yet, i will wait til day 7 on them, i'm trying to have faith in them but they looked pretty loose. thats really going to suck if they're all bad, something must have happened in shipping.

 

[walkswithdog]

Candling at two days usually shows nothing.

Some rare eggs show at 4 days. Most show veining best at 7 or more days. I check now at 7 days or 10.

While not usually a problem if you're careful, rough handling can tear fragile new veins.

AND every single time you handle them you increase the chances that you will drop one. And you will. It happens to everyone, even old pro's. Which is why the oldest pro's don't candle. A broken high value shipped egg is an amazingly depressing thing.

You will crack or break eggs. It happens. The more you handle them the greater the chances.

Candling in front of children gives them IDEAS about doing it on their OWN - people come in here all the time and a young or NOT so young (teen) has "candled" eggs themselves, dropped, broken them or left the top on wrong. Some children encouraged to handle eggs, or who watch someone help a chick out - take it upon themselves to crack eggs - file that under things NOT to do in front of children.

Welcome to the wonder and terror of hatching.

 

[FluffyColor]

I'm not even going to candle my eggs.On my last hatch I tried to candle-tried because the eggshells were so darn DARK that I only saw an air cell in one egg.In the rest of the eggs I couldn't see a thing..and the eggs in the hovabator are brown.Dark shells=good because there is more of a chance they are fertile.Bad because you can't candle dangit!!!!!

 

[suzpyoung]

Here's three of the four that hatched in the bator late into day 20, two splash and a blue. The blue is super confident - bet it's a roo!

And here's two splash that my broody RIR banty hatched - they hatched on day 19!!

And here's our special needs baby that my husband took an hour to zip out of the egg. We waited too long - 30 hours

She was stuck and would never have been able to spin around to zip. She couldn't move her right wing until we got the shell and yolk off. When first hatched, her head was tilted back and stuck to her neck. She laid like she is in my hand the first two days. Today, however, she is perching!!

 

[LuvinMyPeeps]

Awwww....cute!!

 

[Ooopsy_daisy]

Quote:

 

[Kiwi Chicky]

Those chickies are soooo cute! Yay for helping the one that needed it!

I tried to candle some of my eggs last night

Can't see much at all, eggs are brown and green.
Might need to make another candler with a brighter light I thinks.

I just want to see one egg developing properly, then I'll have faith that the rest are developing too.

Waiting SUCKS

 

[Ooopsy_daisy]

Ive decided to take walkswithdog and my daughters advice and not candle until day 7 which will be this coming Wednesday. They I will know for sure. (if these old eyes can see the vein'n properly LOL)

Its killing me not to know, but its okay...Im building PVC trailers for my meaties and turning the underneath of my hay barn into a huge coop for my birds. So thats keeping me busy.

Oh by the way, my cub cadet mower has mulch blades and I tossed some fresh green pasture mix to them today I cut, you should have seen those ISA's go nuts. They all piled on it like it was cotten candy to a kid at the fair. Guess I'll do that for them once a day...and see how orange my egg yokes get. And talk about vitamins!

Now if only my horses would eat such pasture...the spoiled brats. They turn their noses up to anything but 2nd cutting alfafa/timothy soft hay. No wonder I got chickens, they are pleased with any extras.

Off to do meatie chores and close them up for the evening. Everyone sleep well and sweet dreams of HATCHING DAY lol