help with eggs :(

[pinkprincess]

hi just to let you no the last 1 with a blood ring was died

:'(

im on my 2nd bach now its day 6 and i had to house sit my step moms house so iv got the eggs with me. i have 11 this time the temp droped to 85 on the way is this ok??? well i canded the eggs today just to see if there ok from the move and on about 4 of then there are big black spots right at the top of the eggs were the chicks r but thay dont move own there own or were the eggs r moveing!!! i can see the vains round them! is this ok??? im so lost

 

[Revelle]

From what I heard, it's alright because it'd be just like the mama hen getting up for food/water/bathroom breaks.

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Good luck with your hatch!

 

[eac04]

I think that by day 6 you should be able to see the embryo move, but sometimes it's so faint it's hard to see. Make sure you are using a really bright flashlight. I was using one with weak batteries and it was hard to see anything than a dark blob floating to the top of the egg.

 

[pinkchick]

Best of Luck with your hatch.

 

[Chic Chick]

Don't give up yet! Wait a couple more days and then you should be able to see them moving around.
Good Luck

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

If you see any veining at all they are alive yet

Try not to open the bator up to often. Candle at days 7, 14 and when you move them for lockdown (day 18) Good luck!~

 

[bigstack]

I have brown eggs. I candled in the beginning and could surely tell 1 wasnt fertil. The others I just couldn't tell. I could see air cell but that was it! NOw out of 16 in lock down 3 have hatched and all but 2 have pipped! Be patient. These lil guy are tougher than you think. But big temp fluctuations arn't good. No matter what every one says about " oh, you have to be so careful. you have to do this or that!" PLEASE!!! Don't get me wrong most of what they say will help and it is better safe than sorry! But I know alot of people who hatched eggs all their live with nothing but a cardboard box, a spray bottle or rag and a brooder light and thermometer. They had almost all perfect hatches. People and there new fancy machines......Chickens have been here a LLLOOOOOONNNNNNGGgGGGGG time! with out all this fancy junk! BUT dont get me wrong it is always better to be safe than sorry! Just dont fret too much. If mothernature wants them to live they will. If not it wasnt ment to be. Not your fault!

Good luck and God Bless!

 

[bigstack]

That being said I have to be honest. I have smoked twice as much as normal snce I went on lockdown LOL Im so worried!!!! I know, I kow, But do as I say and not as I do!!

 

[Chic Chick]

You are so right bigstack! It's like the waiting for a baby to arrive X 50, it doesn't matter what kind of babies they are.
A little temperature fluctuation never killed all my chicks yet, and I've had temps go way up or way down!
I also had a silkie sitting on some eggs last month when it was -30, and she somehow fell out of the cage and dropped down 3 feet and couldn't get back up to the eggs. They were stone cold when I went into the coop in the morning. I put her back in the cage and she ended up hatching them all. I took the first 3 away from her at day 2 and left her to hatch out the others. The amazing thing about them is that they've never had a heat lamp on them ever, since I took them away from her, and at 3 weeks old they are content and growing at the high temp of 75F in my kitchen.
As far as opening the bator I have to hand turn the eggs right now, so I'm opening it up at least 3 times a day. I don't worry about it now because I know a little temporary drop in temperature will not hurt them. What will be will be and I'm not stressing about it yet for another 10 days....lol