I think I’ll incubate a fairy egg

[MDBird]

Ok thank you. I have been copying you, so I do have the shelf liner lol. I'll just keep an eye on them. Maybe the eggs are just a touch bigger because they don't seem to quite fit if they are lined up together straight. Plus where most roll around on there side I have two that keep turning and end up flipping end over end.

 

[FloorCandy]

Ok thank you. I have been copying you, so I do have the shelf liner lol. I'll just keep an eye on them. Maybe the eggs are just a touch bigger because they don't seem to quite fit if they are lined up together straight. Plus where most roll around on there side I have two that keep turning and end up flipping end over end.

I went and looked back at your photo of the eggs in the incubator. My thoughts are that your eggs, particularly the jumbos, are quite a bit larger than mine, so that might be an issue, and the only other difference is a different shelf liner, I’m not certain that matters. My liner is hard to describe, it isn’t sticky, but it’s like subtly tacky, I wash and reuse it, and it maintains this feel. I feel tho, that the most likely cause is the size of your eggs, the big blue ones are particularly lovely btw.

Thinking about your eggs cracking, I can’t imagine the strength of my turner breaking the eggs, at worst it just dragged them around without damage and without turning them and I unstuck them a few times per day. Yours are home grown eggs right? I think you said the adults are still young, perhaps the shells on a few were a bit weaker than normal?

 

[MDBird]

Thank you for the compliments on the eggs, they are all home grown. I do see the difference in shelf liner and will keep an eye out for one closer to yours. I'm pretty sure you are right about one just laying some thinner eggs since one cracked while gathering today. Thanks for all the help

 

[FloorCandy]

I got a small egg today, larger than the fairy, but still pretty small, I put it and a friend (in case it hatches I don’t want it to be alone)into the incubator. I’ll candle tonight when it’s dark, I’m hoping for the fairy egg to be growing. This puts 44 in the incubator. At lock down I’ll probably just put these 2 near the edge and put a chop stick in to nudge them every few hours or something to minimize opening the lid, provided they are fertile.

 

[FloorCandy]

The fairy didn’t develop, but I have 39 good eggs in the incubator still I think. It’s a relief, I had to cull Red, and have no other males with the dilute gene. But I have a pen of his 5 week old babies, and 3 more of his (2 weeks old) I hatched with the tuxes. Plus I’m sure he contributed to the ones incubating.