Hands on hatching and help

[WildHens]

@WVduckchick
Dunno if I told you, but the Lavender Orps are doing GREAT.. I've not taken them out to candle, but from.a quick peek it looks like all or at least almost all started. Few look like blood rings, but I haven't taken any out..
I think I have a much higher chance of hatching yours than the other source.. think the others were a bad combo of old eggs and poor breeder conditions. .no access to grass, very small oens5, eggs laid in mud or poo bc they had no other choice..
I'm going to take notes tho since all of yours are dated.. like if it quit at what stage, oldest egg hatched, etc..

 

[tracyjg]

It was just a general question . I don't have to name anyone. No ones on trail. For speaking about an animal or egg.

 

[WildHens]

You and Amy will get along great!!

Or we may both snap and get the whole thread shut down

 

[WildHens]

It was just a general question . I don't have to name anyone. No ones on trail. For speaking about an animal or egg.

Lol..ok. last question asked was about feeding a duckling feeder fish, followed by asking about chicks off a nest, and you come in with an answer about making safety holes If you're attempt to answer someone's question, they are gonna keep right on scrolling bc they have zero clue that they are being answered. .I know that myself and several others specifically look for someone to quote us if we ask a question..
And I may be on a trail.. I ride horses alot..

 

[Blooie]

Blooie, post a pic of the traced air cells. If there's not much growth on the 14th day, I usually wait one more day and recheck and a lot of times they look good by then. If not, drop your humidity a little and recheck in a few days. How many are still going?

Okay, I'll do that this evening when I turn and it's darker so I can candle and take a couple of pictures. You sitting down? Out of the 16 you sent me, 1 had a blood ring, and I broke one the first day. I have a total of 14 that are still going strong!! Yep, 14!!! Ain't that exciting??? As of Day 12 there were dancing embryos in every single egg! Hard to tell now, because as I said the eggs are now mostly dark inside. But I am so sure that we are going to get a good hatch this time!

So glad I took the chance and ordered eggs from you! After the dismal results before I thought I was done and never trying it again. You made the entire process so easy, and you, Amy, and so many others have been so patient with me while I worked up the courage to try one more hatch. Now, what the heck am I going to with 14 Silkies???

 

[WildHens]

Okay, I'll do that this evening when I turn and it's darker so I can candle and take a couple of pictures.  You sitting down?  Out of the 16 you sent me, 1 had a blood ring, and I broke one the first day.  I have a total of 14 that are still going strong!!  Yep, 14!!!  Ain't that exciting???  As of Day 12 there were dancing embryos in every single egg!  Hard to tell now, because as I said the eggs are now mostly dark inside.  But I am so sure that we are going to get a good hatch this time!  

So glad I took the chance and ordered eggs from you! After the dismal results before I thought I was done and never trying it again.  You made the entire process so easy, and you, Amy, and so many others have been so patient with me while I worked up the courage to try one more hatch.  Now, what the heck am I going to with 14 Silkies???  

Yay♡♡♡ and you're gonna love them, and cuddle them and hold them like a little baby..lol.. you can NEVER have too many baby Silkies ♡♡

 

[arr36]

Well, I just checked my Muscovy egg again. Before, there was sometimes movement if I tapped the wall near the egg or moved the incubator slightly (this egg is the only one in there). But a lot of the time there was no movement for a while. Now - there is a regular in/out movement, like breathing. I can't hear any cheeping or tapping but I guess it would only be making that kind of a movement if it had pipped and was breathing air?

Separately, I had to cull one of my 2 turkey poults today. . She was wobbly on her feet from the start and somehow today the skin had split over her ankle joint and there was exposed joint. The doctor in me said that would be a huge infection risk and it'd never heal, plus it would be super sore, so she's gone off to chicky heaven. So sad. Anyone else ever have that?

 

[tracyjg]

Well I can't speak here any. More everything's a fight. Well I have to say something to keep my accounts going. I sorry it's not what you want. I do things thAt work for me. If I see something and it's similar to me I might say something to my case. I haven't got duck eggs to hatch yet. I still trying. I may do things differently it's ok.

 

[tracyjg]

I am not around every minute of the day and night I have Animals eggs choirs child school ect I have a family and a life.

 

[WVduckchick]

@WVduckchick
Dunno if I told you, but the Lavender Orps are doing GREAT.. I've not taken them out to candle, but from.a quick peek it looks like all or at least almost all started. Few look like blood rings, but I haven't taken any out..
I think I have a much higher chance of hatching yours than the other source.. think the others were a bad combo of old eggs and poor breeder conditions. .no access to grass, very small oens5, eggs laid in mud or poo bc they had no other choice..
I'm going to take notes tho since all of yours are dated.. like if it quit at what stage, oldest egg hatched, etc..

Oh you don't have to go to all that trouble! I'm just curious if some of the older ones actually hatch!
By the time I get around to setting, I've had enough fresher eggs that I've never tried older ones. I am glad to hear that fertility seems better. I had a few weeks where it wasn't great with them.