My girls must be feeling spring even though the weather doesn't feel like it because I've gotten a ton of eggs in the last few days myself. I was thinking of doing the auction too but I'm on the fence because I can't guarantee what colors they'll be. Still have two of your call eggs going strong on day 17. The air cells are crazy shapes, so I have no idea on their size. If I post some pics would you take a look and tell me if you think humidity has been on point?Glad you learned, but sucks on how... :/ I have about a doz due about the 23rd, since I am trying to hatch every pure Snowy egg I get, lol... and the girls have 13 under them... not planning to hatch anymore from my mixed flock for a while... in fact, I was thinking of posting an auction tonight for 12+...
I hatch bantam eggs and lots of people say they hatch early but if my temps are consistent around 99.5 then they take the full 21 days. So
Good luck on the new set!So glad to have found this thread. Some of you already know me and have helped me assist. I thank you all! I have a LG9300 and a Genesis Hovabator. The Genesis is new and I've only used it once and it was with my first batch of shipped Muscovy eggs that did not go so well. It was a dry incubation and then when it got down to hatching, I couldn't keep the humidity up. There were multiple DIS. I gave internal pips close to 48 hours at the start and found that too late. The only two that didn't die were two I jumped in to help at 24 hrs post internal pip. I put the bators away after that catastrophe. I got the 9300 out last week and have 7 eggs on day 6 now
Ravyn took the words right out of my mouth or keypad, I guess.So, this morning marked the end of day 25 on my ancona ducks that have the bacterial infections; the runners reach the end of day 25 tomorrow night and look the same as the anconas. I removed a couple more from the Lyon bator and found dead ducklings inside. I'm now down to 9 anconas and 13 runners. And the vast majority of those have already stopped movement but there are still veins inside that are red; not all the veins inside are thick and black so I don't know if they are alive, dead, or on their way out. There are a handful of eggs that still show movement but the eggs have large clear spots at the bottom of the egg. Instead of being filled out and dark from the fully formed chick awaiting it's hatch, they look like they are a week behind. I still havn't put them into the hatcher cos they look nowhere near as full as they should be. Maybe 2 of them look full and have movement. Any recommendations??? Here is one of the eggs I pulled out and cracked open. Mushy, dead chick was found inside. All the eggs in that bator right now have these same black spots but the veins have just not completely disappeared like in this one. I don't know why I can't get a candling picture to turn out but at least you can kind of see the black stuff inside this one. This is at day 25.5. The clear spot is definitely too big for this late in the incubation am I right??? The rest that I am not 100% sure on look just like the clear spot on this pic but they still have red veins or movement. Should I leave them in the bator longer or move them to the hatcher with that big of clear spot at the bottom? I think it's a complete loss but I don't wanna give up in case some are still capable of surviving.
if a hatch is really important to me I lay the eggs down and hand turn. I find it really helps the veining system (cam) to develop properly. I'm glad you stuck them in the hatcher, just make sure they don't start to smell with those spots!
