Home Made Bator Pics

[gmc]

Here's a pic from candling today, this would be at day 3. With a slight tweak, the temp. is right on 100 deg. Does this look normal for a standard brown egg at 3 days into it? I candled 7 of 20 and all looked like this one.

 

[silkiechicken]

3 days is a bit early to tell anything conclusive. Wait till day 7 at least.

 

[gmc]

Thanks, I was a bit worried about fertilzation. None seem to be clear or that is my understanding based on my observation.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

I agree...not going to see anything really well til day 7.....

 

[tiki244]

It looks like all your eggs are in a basket at the topp half of your bator-is this true?

I have a water bottle just like that for a heat sink.

 

[gmc]

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Yes. All the eggs are in a basket in the top. The water bottle helps bring the heat back after having the lid open.

 

[Tsagirl]

When I candled early I always shown the light from the top, this way I see the air sac and if any veins seem to be growing, that is all I look for this early.

As for the hatcher I made, It was doing ok but those temps were ok for the wiggler but I was afraid I would kill the babies when they hatched.
So I gave it to a teacher to see if she could tweek it and make it better, maybe for a hatch in the classroom. But...I dont know.....

If yours can work, mine can too...so yea lots of updates would be great!

Thanks for leading us though this jorney.

 

[gmc]

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I have ask on this board before if anyone had successfully hatched using this design and never really got an answer. All I know at this point is that I can hold a consistant temp., close enough to hatch. I hadn't thought much about your concern. An alternate hatch bator may be in order, its a valid concern. I will be posting additional pics as I move through the process and have something to update.

 

[crazychickens]

Please give updates.

Im trying to learn EVERYTHING!

 

[gmc]

Day 7 pics. Of the 19 in the bator, 15 look very simillar to the first picture. The other four matched the second pictue. I'm a bit worried about those four. And 19 is now 18 because I dropped the one while taking the picture.