Hatch-Along - Eggs set in November, due December, anyone?

[3Dchicken]

Also, rguchicks, THAT IS A LOT OF CHICKS! D really cute. I just want to hug them all at once. :3

 

[3Dchicken]

Okay! I have my pictures!
I'm pretty sure these next three were dead ones. I wasn't wearing gloves, and I was just trying to get a decent picture of the blood rings or infertility...ness. lol The flash kept going off and my finger over the light just shone red everywhere. I'm sure they were dead though. I took pictures of what the insides looked like.





ThisVVV is my to- be brooding box. That ball is just a toy, and the marbles in the waterer are so the baby chicks don't drown themselves. XD

Some supplies.VVV Marbles, jar for the food dispenser, an LED flashlight, and the box for the heat light. (and some fish food)

Two of the dead eggs were infertile, and two died at (i presume) day one or two. This is them when I broke them open.

A good shot of a blood ring. VVV

I have a lot more plants than this in my room! It's practically a forest. I just had to take a picture because they were in my face.

These were the eggs after I took out the duds. VVV



My incubator at night all cozy. It was midnight when I took these pictures. lol

AND OF COURSE... My fishies!!! I have two fish tanks in my tiny room. One with fantails, and the other with comets. These are my fantails, Ernie, (the huge orange one) Pringles, (the one that is orange and black) and Kirby (who is smushed in the corner behind Pringles) I couldn't take a better picture, because they are always too hyper.

And these are my comets, (left to right) Al, (for albino) Remmy, and Cherry Bomb. On the bottom is the bottom feeder. I just call him "The Creeper" (as on Minecraft :3)

I know the last two pictures have nothing to do with the eggs, but my fish were like: "We want attention, too!" heehee

So, now I have thirteen eggs, one that looks like it might not have anything in it, but is kind of pourus, so it is kind of hard to see through it. Another one I am also not sure about, I will throw it out when I am sure it is not alive. So I am positive that I have at least 11 good eggs. I expected some to be bad. Some looked really good!! It is so cute to see them moving inside the egg! I won't know what to do with myself if none hatch! I am so nervous.

 

[Candyman]

Great pictures 3D and very nice brooder setup, I love the marbles idea, I will try that too. Cute little fishes, the comets are posing for the camera

also what about the development of the remaining 11, are they developing equally? as you mentioned before that some were developing more than others.

 

[3Dchicken]

Thanks, and yes, I think they were posing for the picture. lol Some of them are the little balls with veins while others are taking the shape of a chick. Some moved, some didn't. I think they will be a staggered hatch. This is very a curious bunch of chicks. I wish I could take better pictures. I don't know how to turn off the flash on my camera.

Oh, well. I'll try again, and I can always take pictures when they hatch.

 

[Candyman]

yepp, sure. Also if your incubator is a still-air one, then you definitely need to move them around into each others place, I have a forced-air bator and still I move them around just to be safe, so all get the same temperatures and develop evenly.

 

[maryhysong]

thats a nice schedule you got there candyman, it's been almost a year that i stopped turning eggs and i still get a good hatching rate....i set my eggs on plastic trays i bought on ebay and have 3 fans inside my fridgebator for the warm air flow inside, all strays have wholes on the bottom part and the eggs keep warm all around....i would probably get a much better hatching rate if i turned because its always been recomended but there is no one to turn them since my wife and me work....

by the way i just got my quails out and counted them till now i have 168 baby quails and im about to head out to the fleamarket with 25 pullets, 5 cockerels, and 40 three wk old quails......lets see how it goes.

You don't have to turn your eggs that often; twice a day is enough; that's all I do and I get good hatches

 

[Candyman]

mary how much success rate? I need a 100%

 

[3Dchicken]

Okay, will do... later when I turn them.

 

[katsdar]

Hi,
Thanks Candyman sometimes the ole brain just doesn't compute.
Chickencanoe thanks for the info.

 

[rgvchicks]

im about to head out to the fleamarket with 25 pullets, 5 cockerels, and 40 three wk old quails......lets see how it goes.

i just got back from the fleamarket and sold everything.....$250 for a 6 hr work is not bad.........

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........enought to get some feed for the critters and a triple meat bacon and cheese burger from Dairy Queen.....yummy!!!

also, another 23 baby quails and 5 died of the ones i took out this morning and had to knull 4 that were wrong with their legs.....