➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

A lot of literature really frowns on excessive handling and candling of eggs. Although, I think as long as your hands are clean and you are careful, you can candle once a day until lockdown.

I know.
I am pretty good at not following rules.
I will try to remember to use my green alcohol on my hands every time...this time.

I can guarantee I will candle at least 3x a day.

 

[Kiki]

Up date: So 2 broody hens, each in their own broody cage and run, sitting on 7 eggs each. Everything went very well, no freaked out hens, both settled in and back to sleep in no time. ( I could hardly see ) and was about to freak out. So we will see what we get in about 3 weeks.

Are you going to sneak a peek in a few days?
Candle ever?

 

[ronott1]

So not quite 5 minutes and the bator is already up 10 degrees.
I'm betting it only takes 10 mins to get to 99/100.
That might be too fast to warm the eggs up from the cold huh?

Incubators go down when you add the eggs too. Unless it goes way out of range, don't adjust for 24 hours and then adjust in little amounts

 

[Kiki]

13 minutes....up 22 degrees to 90F.

I may leave it running all night just for the heck of it!
Just so I can wake up to check on it!

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Are you going to sneak a peek in a few days?
Candle ever?

No, The hen will do her job and I might candle at the end to make sure I don't have a late hatcher.

 

[Kiki]

No, The hen will do her job and I might candle at the end to make sure I don't have a late hatcher.

O my.
I would never be able to not candle.
Impossible.
Are you nuts?

 

[Kiki]

Speaking of nuts.
@RUNuts How's CL and the pups?

 

[Morrigan]

I know.
I am pretty good at not following rules.
I will try to remember to use my green alcohol on my hands every time...this time.

I can guarantee I will candle at least 3x a day.

Well, we do enjoy the pictures!

I was terrified to touch my eggs during my first incubation. I candled them twice during the whole time. I got a little more handsy in subsequent incubations.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

O my.
I would never be able to not candle.
Impossible.
Are you nuts?

I check the hen and her living conditions everyday. She knows what she is doing, and I don't want to disturb her for fear she will decide if I am that interested then I can just hatch them.

 

[Kiki]

Well, we do enjoy the pictures!

I was terrified to touch my eggs during my first incubation. I candled them twice during the whole time. I got a little more handsy in subsequent incubations.

I wasn't scared one bit the first time...remember how I accidentally cracked the one egg?
The second time I was a little more nervous.
The third time I was very careful but they didn't really count.