Incubator loaded for First Time

[MDBird]

I decided to give incubating and raising chicks a shot. I am on Day 0 and already tired of waiting lol. It's a mix of Celadon and Jumbo eggs. My birds are young, so I'm hoping the eggs are ready. I plan to look for some signs of life as soon as I can. Now I just have to research more to find out when to so that.

 

[JaeG]

Good luck. Did you try cracking open a few to see if they were fertile? You'll see this on the yolk:

This is an excellent quail egg candling guide if you haven't found it yet:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/coturnix-quail-egg-candling-guide.71783/

 

[MDBird]

Thank you, I'll crack some tomorrow and have a look. I appreciate the guide, that's exactly what I needed

 

[Quailobsessed]

I decided to give incubating and raising chicks a shot. I am on Day 0 and already tired of waiting lol. It's a mix of Celadon and Jumbo eggs. My birds are young, so I'm hoping the eggs are ready. I plan to look for some signs of life as soon as I can. Now I just have to research more to find out when to so that.

Good luck with your hatch

 

[FloorCandy]

Beautiful eggs!

 

[MDBird]

So I don't know how well these pictures show it but from what my amateur eyes could tell the eggs were fertile.

 

[JaeG]

Yes, those look fertile. Can't wait to hear how you get on. Keep us updated.

 

[MDBird]

I was not able to resist and took out three eggs to candle. I saw red veins in all 3!! The only bad thing is one egg seemed to have double yolks with signs of life only in one. So now I need to do a little research, I thought I didn't choose any doubles. I'm assuming that they shouldn't be incubated.

 

[Nabiki]

I was not able to resist and took out three eggs to candle. I saw red veins in all 3!! The only bad thing is one egg seemed to have double yolks with signs of life only in one. So now I need to do a little research, I thought I didn't choose any doubles. I'm assuming that they shouldn't be incubated.

They very, very rarely make it. If one is dead, it will probably take the other one with it.

 

[MDBird]

Ok, would you recommend just taking it out now or seeing how it does. I was thinking of trying to candle most of the eggs at day 9 and remove any that don't look fertile to avoid any rotten explosions. I didn't know if with my inexperience I was better to just leave everything alone until day 14 when I stop turning or just the end when everyone should've hatched.