INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[casportpony]

Quote: Yes, those, thanks for the pictures... I think I installed mine incorrectly. FYI, they pop in and out fairly easily.


-Kathy

Looks like I put them in incorrectly after I cleaned it! Here is my RCOM right before we used it:


-Kathy

 

[LocalYokel]

Just found this thread! I'm in the second week of my first incubation attempt! I have 40 eggs, 3 Swedish Isbars and 5 Cream Legbars, 2 RIR/EE eggs, a few RIR/Golden Comet eggs and the rest are RIR/Black Sex Links. The pure breed eggs are ones I ordered from a breeder off of Ebay. They claimed an above 90% success rate but when I candled my eggs on day 8 none of the ones I ordered were developing. I truly don't believe it's user error or an incubation newbie mishap, because all of the other eggs (32) are developing and have VERY visible veins at this point. A friend that raises chickens suggested I leave them in the incubator since they are tinted blue and green eggs and maybe I just couldn't see the veins. If anyone has incubated Swedish Isbar or Cream Legbar eggs and has any insight on what the issue could be I would greatly appreciate it! Are their eggs perhaps more sensitive to temperature or humidity than other breeds?? My fear is that I wasted my money on a sham and that they weren't even fertile to begin with!

The blue and green are harder to candle/see clearly.
Were you in a dark space when you candled? Just leave em, prolly fine

 

[shahtir101]

@Sally Sunshine
@casportpony

One very expensive vet visit later I am told the boy seems to have a bacterial infection caused by debris. He will be getting antibiotic pills twice a day.

The girl had debris, but no pus so no antibiotics for her.

Hubby will be changing their bedding to get rid of the DE he put down against my advice.

@TJChickens

That is horrible packing, very similar to how the Phoenix eggs were packed.

Well it is not as bad as you had previously thought, right? Either way I am sorry this happened to you and that they get better quickly.

 

[Pensmaster]

UPDATE
@TJChickens

@Sally Sunshine

@anyoneelsewhocares

The six Bantam EE eggs set under Jordan, my first time broody, are all veining nicely
I candled all six in less than 20 seconds, just took a peek. I saw three moving!

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[LocalYokel]

 

[TJChickens]

87

 

[Saris]

Well it is not as bad as you had previously thought, right? Either way I am sorry this happened to you and that they get better quickly.

Definitely not as bad as I thought, worth every penny.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

87

87 what are u hatching

 

[TJChickens]

@Sally Sunshine
@casportpony

One very expensive vet visit later I am told the boy seems to have a bacterial infection caused by debris. He will be getting antibiotic pills twice a day.

The girl had debris, but no pus so no antibiotics for her.

Hubby will be changing their bedding to get rid of the DE he put down against my advice.

The vet prescribed Clavamox

@TJChickens

That is horrible packing, very similar to how the Phoenix eggs were packed.

This is good. Sorry about the big vet bill, but valuable to know it's not viral. How are they acting and looking now?

I don't like having DE around. It's awfully hard on the lungs. For awhile, people were using it for everything. I know someone who kept feeding it to her horse because a holistic vet told her to de-worm the horse that way. The horse had to have colic surgery because of course the DE did the same thing that a sand impaction does to a horse.

 

[azkc]

UPDATE
@TJChickens
@Sally Sunshine
@anyoneelsewhocares

The six Bantam EE eggs set under Jordan, my first time broody, are all veining nicely
I candled all six in less than 20 seconds, just took a peek. I saw three moving!

woohoo!!!