Heat Pad Incubation Experiment

[DogAndCat36]

Ok! Finally updating! Both of mine are developing, one moves around a lot. The other one doesn’t move at all, which kind of worries me. The temperature is definitely higher than normal, which seems to have made them grow faster. They both fill almost two thirds of the egg in the second week.

Let's hope that they're both ok.

 

[AFrownieFarm]

Enjoying reading along with your trial.

 

[Flashpoint]

Let's hope that they're both ok.

Just want to throw this into the pot - so take it for what it's worth.

I have my Narri hen Goldie setting 14 turkey eggs in the chicken camper. To my knowledge, she hasn't gotten off the nest once since she started - approx 7 days ago. I went down earlier to feed and she is out of the nest, out of the fence, and standing at the door of the pen my other Narri turkey hen is in - seemingly arguing with her. Maybe she just realized part of those eggs belong to Brandie and she's pitching a fit because Brandie is not helping??

Anyway, Goldie may have been off the nest for 15 minutes or even an hour. I don't know. I went in and counted (first time I could), and they were not warm to the touch. I then had to go get her back into the pen and once she was in, she went straight to the nest and settled down.

As much as people tout temps and humidity, and all the other basics of hatching eggs, it has been my observation that the birds could care less about those observations. I have watched turkeys, ducks, and chickens get up, run around, get something to eat or drink - and it can be quite a while before they go back to the nest. I have also seen the hens sit on those eggs, but with one or two just kinda "hanging out" from under her feathers, yet it seems almost all of them hatch anyway. Often it is the egg that Never hung out - that gets left behind. Just saying......

What I am suggesting is that - although many people believe the "scientific by the book with exact numbers" is the only way to incubate -and the ONLY way to incubate, it isn't always. I think nature is more forgiving than that at the very least.

 

[KiwiandPeachthePigeons]

Both of my eggs still doing well! Kicking and moving, veins look good!

 

[Flashpoint]

Both of my eggs still doing well! Kicking and moving, veins look good!

Glad to hear that, Kiwi!! ❤

 

[KiwiandPeachthePigeons]

Ok... I might have added seven guinea fowl eggs and three duck eggs to the mix...

 

[KiwiandPeachthePigeons]

We had a quitter today . There was a blood ring and no movement so I took the egg and broke it on the sidewalk. The chick inside was definitely dead.

Black and white, everything perfect. Bummer, but that’s what happens.

Hey, @DogAndCat36 when are the eggs hatching? Next Thursday or the Thursday after? I’m so bad at times. Having only one chicken egg left is worrying me now, I’m afraid he won’t make it.

 

[DogAndCat36]

We had a quitter today . There was a blood ring and no movement so I took the egg and broke it on the sidewalk. The chick inside was definitely dead.View attachment 2115568 Black and white, everything perfect. Bummer, but that’s what happens.

Hey, @DogAndCat36 when are the eggs hatching? Next Thursday or the Thursday after? I’m so bad at times. Having only one chicken egg left is worrying me now, I’m afraid he won’t make it.

I think that mine are quitters, but that's just my luck, nothing goes right for me, it's ok. I am sorry for your loss, but I think that your other chick might make it, continue, you are doing great.
Also, sorry that I have been gone for a while.

 

[KiwiandPeachthePigeons]

Depending if its still alive now. I haven't candled it since the death of the first egg. Can't do it now anyways because lockdown.

 

[DogAndCat36]

Depending if its still alive now. I haven't candled it since the death of the first egg. Can't do it now anyways because lockdown.

We will see.