Okay, way over there! Good Luck!
Yes, I have terrible chicken math skills. Those bands are rubber bands. they didn't come with the Brinsea. I secured them around the egg dividers, and then stretched them over the extra eggs. I was a little nervous, but they've been turning for 2 days now, and they have moved at all. Still, I'm thinking about making tall egg dividers out of hardware cloth, and replacing the ones in the bator to accomadate the extra eggs. But I'm not opening the bator until I candle, probably not until day 10. I'm never sure about clear eggs until day 10. And since these are Maran eggs, I might never be sure.
That's what I'm using. You can see my pic of it loaded earlier in the thread, but I don't recommend filling it as full as I did. My eggs were kind of rattling around too. I stuffed little pieces of cardboard in the gaps to keep them steady.
#3 looks pretty porous. It's the only 1 I would worry about at this point. Dark eggs are nearly impossible to see anything until about a week in, then you often can't see much more than the air cell expanding & a dark mass beginning to form.I'm new to the thread, but I will be setting some in the incubator tomorrow as well!!
I am setting 5 from an eBay purchase of blue copper, blue, and black copper Marans (eggs 1-5 below). I also have 2 of my own (6-7)
I use a Brinsea Mini Advance w/ Auto Turning. My first hatch was 100%, 7 out of 7. The chicks are a week old and doing great. Hoping I have similar luck this go round but realize I'm dealing with shipped eggs instead of fresh eggs.. They were shipped on Jan 2 and I received them today Jan 5. I suck at gauging anything by candling this early in the game so my efforts today were fruitless. I can't tell if they have detached cells or what.. Don't know what to look for either so... here are some pictures.
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These will be very difficult to candle. After about a week you should be able to see the aircell fairly easily but likely won't be able to see much more than a darkening blob in the middle of the egg if you can see anything at all. I just watch my aircells on the dark & colored eggs to make sure they are developing & the aircell is increasing in size. By about day 14 you should be able to tell if it is clear or not. A clear egg will allow light through the entire shell whereas a developing baby will block the majority of the light.I guess you can count me in too! I just set my first batch of eggs ever and have a great deal to learn, but here's hoping that I get some chicks and not just a bunch of smelly eggs. I pulled all of the eggs I'm trying to hatch from my Easter Eggers. My only question is on the candling - some of my eggs are darker colored and I'm worried about being able to see through the shell to check on their development (Colors range from an olive green color to a light turquoise).
Shipped eggs you can wait 2-3 days but I start turning my own after 24 hrs.
I agree does look very porous, But dont let that discourage you. My last batch had a few porous eggs like yours and they all hatched!
My last batch was local eggs and I started turning as soon as they were in the incubator. This is my first time on shipped eggs and I have read quite a few different opinions on the amount of days to wait before turning. I think Im going to wait 5 days and then plug in my turner. But I am new to this so Im not positive.
