From eggs to ducklings

[Knighstar679]

Welcome to a journal of my Welsh Harlequin eggs.
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I will take photos of some of the eggs as they grow and go along but not all of them as I set 32. That's just too many to put on here. So I will pick a few eggs when I candle and put them all up.

It is important to note that these will be my first eggs I am incubating past a few days, the last set i had died a few days in. So i am still learning as things go along. So please feel free to comment or give suggestions.

Here is my set up now.

Most of the eggs that are in this incubator are eggs that were shipped and have rested a few days before being put in here and rotated.

Here is the first candling of one of the eggs from Texas. I am not really sure but i think it developed a bit on the way to New York.

Hopefully by July 20th, I will have ducklings working their way into the world.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Exciting about ducklings keep us posted for sure.

Oh your images won't come up

 

[Knighstar679]

Here are the egg Image again.

 

[Lil Drake40]

How many days so far

 

[Knighstar679]

How many days so far

That image was at my day I set it in my incubator. We are on official day three now.

 

[Lil Drake40]

 

[Knighstar679]

I have bee candling daily from my Texas set and Maryland set because I think Texas gained some growth getting to me.

 

[Knighstar679]

So I candled for my nightly candle on my Welsh eggs. I don't usually post them here, but I am very excited that I saw veins in my Texas egg. They are very thin and there is only a few but they were there.
My iPhone sucks at taking these pictures but from what I can tell the heart is somewhere above the "W" on WHTX6

Where as if you look at WHMD12 I think the heart is right above the "H".

The only thing that is really concerning me is that the air sacs are already seem near day 7 size on some of the eggs.

As well as for some ungodly reason the yolk and the air sac on some of my Welsh eggs are on top of one another. The circle is where my air sac was on setting and it hasn't moved from there neither has the yolk. Is this going to get better over time?

 

[Miss Lydia]

@WVduckchick is a good one to answer your questions.

 

[WVduckchick]

Try candling down into the air cell in addition to the pointed end.

Do you have the eggs in an automatic turner or laying down hand turning?

Until the CAM gets fully developed, the yolk and blood vessels will appear to stay in one area. This is why turning is so important.

This is half way thru a turn. It’s not as obvious on eggs standing upright.


Best of luck with the hatch!!