Hatch On Dates: Oct-nov? Dont Forget About This Post!!!

[Nmarine1057]

Man I was all ready to candle then noticed air temp was at 97 and wiggler at 98 now I'm going to have to wait to get this thing stabled again

 

[stephanie1992]

aww hopfully it gets stable soon, srry bout that, the waiting game is never fun

 

[Nmarine1057]

It's back up to 99.3 now so I think we will candle after dinner just to give the eggs some time in the stable temp no idea why the temp dropped all the sudden

 

[Godiva]

Stephanie, its probably a little early to toss any eggs ... just on the off chance that there is life in there. I usually give it up to 8 days to show some signs of development or a very obvious blood ring... you guys got me going with all your candling so I sneaked a peek at a couple of our eggs - still very early but one of them had definite veining woopee! Now I have to hunker down til Saturday. Had to move the eggs from the genesis hovabator to the old 1583. THe temp started to drop and I couldn't get it to settle and I am SICK of trying to fiddle with it. It will seem to be cruising long beautifully for a day or so and then for no reason that I can see it starts to drop and just won't pick up again. At least with the 1583 the temp seems to be really stable and if I do need to adjust it I can just turn the screw a tiny bit and voila! it changes and does what I want. I need to try and get the genesis figured out though ... I have only used it a few times and it has been well taken care of ... I hate to spend money on fixing it when I am not sure what is wrong if anything. Maybe I just need to try it running at the preset setting using some local inexpensive eggs once I have the space and see what if anything hatches.... seems like such a waste though if everything else is telling me it isn't right. Sometimes I think it would be easier to make our own incubator

I am going to take some pics of our setup for you all to see...

Here is the cardboard box on top of the woodstove in the corner of our tiny livingroom/ office

SIde view of the box with 'bator on stove

Here are 14 of the eggs (1 more on back section of turner on it own) can't see their colour but it is a lovely pastel blue

Our brand new water wiggler as the other was rather old and worn and had lost quite a bit of its water so wasn't reading so well - the kids have the other one to play with now

The craigslist incubator that is doing a great job right now - hope it keeps going!

 

[stephanie1992]

so i just candled all my eggs in the bator, all are looking great except for maybe 7 or 8, but thats not very many bad considering theres 41 in there and 38 were shipped, threw two out yesterday wish i kept cuz by looking at others i think they were good, oh well to late now and i still have many other eggs. im happy almost all r looking good!!

 

[stephanie1992]

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nice set up u got there

and on my next hatching during the spring i think im going to wait longer befor throughing out eggs, i hate myself for throughing out those two, i know not to now

 

[Cattitude]

I'm glad to hear that the chicks are developing on schedule!

*cross fingers* for my Marans. I did a spot-candle-in-turner (shine the flashlight into the egg without picking it up) and so far

the ones I've looked at are developing. I've really really wanted these Marans for a long time, and I have at least two eggs each of Black Copper, Blue Copper, Wheaten, Black, and Blue. I'm hoping for a terrific hatch on these guys.

Keep the hatching vibes coming!

 

[stephanie1992]

here are two eggs, both r inthe bator, both r standard eggs, but the brown one is bigger, i just wanted to show there sizr difference, the brown is the biggest ive collected from my birds. its huge. so i put in in the bator the 23rd to see if its any good. its from my turken and the white is from my california grey

 

[Godiva]

Cattitude - sounds like a very pretty mix of colours you have going there - hope this hatch goes really well for you!!

Stephanie, hey this is all a learning curve and sometimes we get a little carried away

don't beat yourself up, just learn from it huh?

This hatching is sooo addictive - I can remember a couple years ago we had tons of broodies and I didn't know that you could break them if it wasn't a good time, so everytime someone went broody we put eggs under her, as many as we could fit, and before we knew it we had over 70 chickens of about 5 or more ages and all needing to get integrated

and we realised that we didn't have space and there were roosters fighting, hens getting overbred etc! And I remember then thinking, OK - next time I am going to be careful and plan my hatching better. I would really love to eventually have our own place where I can breed really nice d'Uccles and others... and then watch out!!!!!

 

[Nmarine1057]

Ok finally candled today did stephs routine of getting eggs in and out of incubator without leaving the bator open the whole time..worked good air temp is 100 wiggler 99.3 so heres whats going on 11 of 11 have black dot moving

and as promised here are the pics..just look for the black spot still hard to tell on pics but my wife (silkiemom) is going to post a good video!!!! So far so good!! and so excited!!