Hands on hatching and help

[WVduckchick]

I'm not quite sure what this is supposed to show.  My understanding of the water test for eggs that are late to hatch is to put each one in a bowl of warm water, one at a time, then let it settle.  Watch it.  If there are teeny ripples in the water, the embryo is still alive and moving, even if it's so slight that we can't normally see it by just looking at it. I just don't see where putting them all in a pan of water at once shows much, if anything. Not trying to be argumentative - just trying to learn.

X2! No point at all in putting them all in at one time. "floating" or "sinking" proves nothing about viability to hatch.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I'm not quite sure what this is supposed to show. My understanding of the water test for eggs that are late to hatch is to put each one in a bowl of warm water, one at a time, then let it settle. Watch it. If there are teeny ripples in the water, the embryo is still alive and moving, even if it's so slight that we can't normally see it by just looking at it. I just don't see where putting them all in a pan of water at once shows much, if anything. Not trying to be argumentative - just trying to learn.

And you would be absolutely right!

X2! No point at all in putting them all in at one time. "floating" or "sinking" proves nothing about viability to hatch.

Xs 3

 

[tracyjg]

It's a sink of water. 100 degrees. 6 sank out right. We did let it settle each time we put an egg in. At the end I took a picture I didn't have enough film. I was yousing partners phone and I limited . Because it's a work phone.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I put new batteries in my flashlight so I could see into these green eggs, and all 13 have development @ day 3!! WooHoo!!

 

[WVduckchick]

I put new batteries in my flashlight so I could see into these green eggs, and all 13 have development @ day 3!!  WooHoo!!

What are those? I checked my 6 bantam cochin eggs and all 6 are developing too, day 5, so I guess we are doing it together again

Currently in the hatcher, 4 lav orps and 4 golden sebrights.... 2 LO pips and one GS, just starting day 21. They are making me wait!

I think it may have to do with us changing the house from heat to A/C a couple weeks ago :/

 

[AmyLynn2374]

What are those? I checked my 6 bantam cochin eggs and all 6 are developing too, day 5, so I guess we are doing it together again

Currently in the hatcher, 4 lav orps and 4 golden sebrights.... 2 LO pips and one GS, just starting day 21. They are making me wait!

I think it may have to do with us changing the house from heat to A/C a couple weeks ago

Yay!!

They are from two of my nn hens. My sister's green egg layers have pretty much died out on her, so I told her I'd incubate a week's worth of mine for her as long as she took them all after they hatched...lol (I just wanted a reason to do another hatch...lol). Hopefully she'll get some green egg layers out of them. I had 4 of my momma nn's eggs in the pullet hatch last year, they all hatched nn, (but I had an nn roo in there at the time too) and I got 2 girls/2 boys from them. One girl hatched and feathered out to look exactly like her momma and ended up laying huge green eggs and the other feathered out completely white and lays a light brown/pinkish egg. I was going to do some Spitzhauben's for her as well, but after putting these greens in with the silkies and seeing how slow they lost the moitsure, I decided I would only do the greens separate so I can run dry and not have to worry about other eggs. I have one of the old type egg scales that tell you wether they are small, medium, large or extra large and most of my greens go past the extra large so I call them jumbo...lol They have pretty thick shells. And if I do these separately I still have another reason to hatch to do some Spitz for her.

Out of the four greens that I idiotically set with the silkie eggs, 2 were nn and 2 were not. (One of the nns was the one that didn't make it.) Here's the funny thing though: I had two in there from my original nn the momma and 2 from her daughter. Momma's eggs produced one nn and one not and the daughter's produced one nn and one not...lol

 

[AmyLynn2374]

What are those? I checked my 6 bantam cochin eggs and all 6 are developing too, day 5, so I guess we are doing it together again

Currently in the hatcher, 4 lav orps and 4 golden sebrights.... 2 LO pips and one GS, just starting day 21. They are making me wait!

I think it may have to do with us changing the house from heat to A/C a couple weeks ago

And come on day 21ers!!!

 

[Blooie]

I put new batteries in my flashlight so I could see into these green eggs, and all 13 have development @ day 3!! WooHoo!!

Day 3 and you can see stuff in them? Whoa.....i need new eyes!

 

[Blooie]

It's a sink of water. 100 degrees. 6 sank out right. We did let it settle each time we put an egg in. At the end I took a picture I didn't have enough film. I was yousing partners phone and I limited . Because it's a work phone.

Ahhhhh

 

[WVduckchick]

  Yay!!

They are from two of my nn hens. My sister's green egg layers have pretty much died out on her, so I told her I'd incubate a week's worth of mine for her as long as she took them all after they hatched...lol (I just wanted a reason to do another hatch...lol). Hopefully she'll get some green egg layers out of them. I had 4 of my momma nn's eggs in the pullet hatch last year, they all hatched nn, (but I had an nn roo in there at the time too) and I got 2 girls/2 boys from them. One girl hatched and feathered out to look exactly like her momma and ended up laying huge green eggs and the other feathered out completely white and lays a light brown/pinkish egg. I was going to do some Spitzhauben's for her as well, but after putting these greens in with the silkies and seeing how slow they lost the moitsure, I decided I would only do the greens separate so I can run dry and not have to worry about other eggs. I have one of the old type egg scales that tell you wether they are small, medium, large or extra large and most of my greens go past the extra large so I call them jumbo...lol They have pretty thick shells. And if I do these separately I still have another reason to hatch to do some Spitz for her. 

Out of the four greens that I idiotically set with the silkie eggs, 2 were nn and 2 were not. (One of the nns was the one that didn't make it.) Here's the funny thing though: I had two in there from my original nn the momma and 2 from her daughter. Momma's eggs produced one nn and one not and the daughter's produced one nn and one not...lol

Interesting the way they work out. I've decided I'll have to do my comet eggs separate from any others for the same reasoning. Thicker shells, bigger eggs. They just didn't lose enough moisture.

So are you going to try to breed one of these new silkie boys with an NN girl? Is that how you get SGs??