Incubators Anonymous

[Pennys Mama]

Addictions are an illness. We are here to help feed your hatching addiction.

And a fine job y'all have done too!!!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Addictions are an illness. We are here to help feed your hatching addiction.

Exactly!

 

[aliciaplus3]

Now you all have me thinking about hatching again! I am supposed to wait till December to set more eggs so they can hatch in the new year.... ahhhhh

 

[Pennys Mama]

Now you all have me thinking about hatching again! I am supposed to wait till December to set more eggs so they can hatch in the new year.... ahhhhh

You caught the hatching bug, did ya?
Lockdown is my favorite! Eggs start rockin' & rollin'!!!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

My poults are due on Tuesday. I really need to get busy and lock them down! Especially since they tend to hatch early for me.

 

[aliciaplus3]

Oh do not get me wrong I have hatched several hundred this year alone! But I am out of growout pens for a while and my Dd plans to take turkeys for next yesrs fair so they need to hatch After Jan 1st.... lol
Current plan is to hatch turkeys(and a few sexlinks, as well as black Nn) jan and feb. Then move to ducks in march and a liberal amount of chickens, cuz this year I am short on pullets that are starting to lay now. I know best laid plans and all that but I need to get a few things in the right time frame.

 

[Pennys Mama]

My poults are due on Tuesday. I really need to get busy and lock them down! Especially since they tend to hatch early for me.

I want some white ones!!! Maybe this next spring after I get all these quail sorted out, and figure out what I'm doing! Lol

Oh do not get me wrong I have hatched several hundred this year alone! But I am out of growout pens for a while and my Dd plans to take turkeys for next yesrs fair so they need to hatch After Jan 1st.... lol
Current plan is to hatch turkeys(and a few sexlinks, as well as black Nn) jan and feb. Then move to ducks in march and a liberal amount of chickens, cuz this year I am short on pullets that are starting to lay now. I know best laid plans and all that but I need to get a few things in the right time frame.

I've been trying hard not to count my chickens/quail before they hatch but it gets me in trouble if I don't. I have to have the housing & brooding space, that's one reason I get so excited I have such broody bantams. I shouldn't ever have to put chicken eggs in my Incubators.

 

[Cerenity]

All - I posted this in the hatch a long thread, but, nobody really had any guidance. I'm worried I should be doing something to help the eggs along that appear to be developing on just one side? They're bantam eggs, if that makes a difference.

My first ever candling on my first hatch. Day seven. Of eight eggs, I think five are developing. The first picture is of the three that I'm sure aren't developing. No vascular system.

The ones that are developing look like they're just building on one side. There's no air sac at the top like I expected. It's like it's the whole horizontal side? They're in an egg turner, but, I'm wondering if maybe because they're bantam eggs, they aren't getting turned enough?

The turner is working, because the arm is at different angles when I check. Should I try turning the eggs every so often myself?

 

[aliciaplus3]

All - I posted this in the hatch a long thread, but, nobody really had any guidance. I'm worried I should be doing something to help the eggs along that appear to be developing on just one side? They're bantam eggs, if that makes a difference.

My first ever candling on my first hatch. Day seven. Of eight eggs, I think five are developing. The first picture is of the three that I'm sure aren't developing. No vascular system.

The ones that are developing look like they're just building on one side. There's no air sac at the top like I expected. It's like it's the whole horizontal side? They're in an egg turner, but, I'm wondering if maybe because they're bantam eggs, they aren't getting turned enough?

The turner is working, because the arm is at different angles when I check. Should I try turning the eggs every so often myself?

Add an x on one side and an o on the other that way you can See if the eggs are turning.... also I have found that the embryo will 'float ' to the top side after a while.... maybe it's not an issue? I guess I am thinking you have a turner that leaves them flat?

 

[Cerenity]

Yes. It's an Incu-turner that came with the HovaBator. I'll try labeling them, that's a good idea.