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[casportpony]

 
Never heard that before and never had a problem either. I candle everyday from day 3 to lock down. Mostly it's for the 20 mins of cooling time. I've had awesome hatches since I started doing this. In my last 2 hatches I only lost 2 eggs and that was because they were clear. Everything else hatched.

Then they didn't actually come from MPC. Probably Meyer since that's who they seem to do the most drop ships from.





I wouldn't exactly call it an addiction. 

What is your propose to candle everyday?

I do it often with chicken and duck eggs just because I want to see what they look like at the different stages.

-Kathy

 

[Chaos18]

Again, I promise I'm not being mean or a now it all. Because I don't know it all. I just been doing this for awhile. I hatch any where from 14 to 50 EVERY week. And learned what works and dont work. Thats all. Plus I like to understand why people do what they do. Sometimes I think people make it a lot harder than what it really is. I know I did when I first started. LOL

I like to understand thing that stuff as well..........but I'm still at the point of making things harder than they need to be.

I didn't take it as mean, everyone is a newbie at some point in any given thing. I learn more frome listening to advice and hands on than reading text books anyway

I have a question.if u water test your egg and they don't float.does that mean the air cell isn't the right size

FLOAT TEST DONE and discussion begin post #3556 post #3573
Eggs Are Judged By Observation With Results As Follows:
1. Sinker= Dud, Never Developed
2. High Floater (like A Fishing Bobber Without Weights) Say 45% Or More Of The Egg Above The Water Line= Dud, No Development Or Fetal Demise, Likely Rupture Of Internal Membranes Causing The Egg To Dehydrate.
3. Low Floater= Viable Egg, Development Full Term
4. Low Floater Rockin And Rollin! This Is The Live Embryo Moving Inside The Egg= Definate Viable Egg!

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I like to understand thing that stuff as well..........but I'm still at the point of making things harder than they need to be.



[COLOR=008080]FLOAT TEST DONE and discussion begin[/COLOR][COLOR=008080] [/COLOR] post #3556 post #3573
Eggs Are Judged By Observation With Results As Follows:
1. Sinker= Dud, Never Developed
2. High Floater (like A Fishing Bobber Without Weights) Say 45% Or More Of The Egg Above The Water Line= Dud, No Development Or Fetal Demise, Likely Rupture Of Internal Membranes Causing The Egg To Dehydrate.
3. Low Floater= Viable Egg, Development Full Term
4. Low Floater Rockin And Rollin! This Is The Live Embryo Moving Inside The Egg= Definate Viable Egg!

well the few I did
they sunk to the bottom but the air cell stade pointing up and they were we're wiggling

 

[Chaos18]

well the few I did
they sunk to the bottom but the air cell stade pointing up and they were we're wiggling

Why are you float testing them in the first place?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

do I put my eggs laying down or in cartons

any help

 

[Razadia]

Quote: I don't think they have eggs, but I do know they have standard and bantam chicks.

Quote: I'm just a worrier.

That and the cooling time has helped my hatches out a ton. They're better now than before I started and I haven't changed how I hatch.

 

[Chaos18]

any help

You've been offered lots of help and suggestions on the matter. YOU need to make a decision. Nobody else can make that choice for you.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

When do Silkies,serama,and Turken usually start hatching.and I'm still trying to figure out if I put them in cartons or laying down.on the bottom at lockdown

help

 

[slordaz]

well the few I did
they sunk to the bottom but the air cell stade pointing up and they were we're wiggling

did you check for internal pip first

Personaly I don't like the float test cause mine sunk with no movement, and had to work up the nerve for eggtopsy, that"s what saved the chick, had cold spots didn't catch and she developed a little slower was actually only one that made it

 

[chicken hawk 33]

Why are you float testing them in the first place?

idk,I'm stupid