Incubators Anonymous

[SAHchickenmom]

So how does everyone stop themselves from candling your eggs everyday!?

 

[kmollyhughes]

So how does everyone stop themselves from candling your eggs everyday!?

Some people do candle everyday...they just consider it the cool down period.

 

[SAHchickenmom]

I like that excuse! Haha

 

[philyaw539]

Out of 37 Bobwhite Quail eggs, 34 made it to lockdown! Fingers crossed for a good hatch!!

 

[DMRippy]

OH I had to candle today to make room for the new eggs and of 34MFL egg/ 33 are developing GREAT! WOW I didn't expect that.

 

[5 Acre Rooster]

Someone needs to slap me. I had my 1st fertility test eggs in incubator and were due yesterday I thought. Began pulling tonight and most were definitely bad. 1 I got to 1/2 way threw looked very late stage death so I cracked..... a live chick but not absorbed yolk yet. I placed in bator and re-covered so now I have another 2 days I'll wait and see if I get anything from them. I forgot that there were a few times that went to roll and was down to 97. Lets hope for some late hatching chicks.
Was not counting on these as they were a 1st fertility test of the year. I always let em cook if theres some good development, which there was.

Aside from these I have about 23 rouen eggs (3 different sets week +/- apart) about a dz BA couple+ dz BYM and 12 CX x eggs (for a meat project). Which all have promising development. Some of these (2+ dz BYM) were a frustration venting. Customer REALLY irritated me so I tossed a days worth of eggs in bator because his little rant made me think he wasn't gonna purchase eggs anymore (He was real cranky/whiny musta been a terrible morning that day, leading me to believe he didn't want eggs anymore) so the next dayat 7am I get a call "You got eggs for me."

And I picked up 2-3 more weekly customers in the day he mislead me. So now I have 4 people competing for my eggs. When last year I could not GIVE them away. What more reason should I need for yet MORE birds.

 

[randerson846]

Ok i have a question, so today i put my 45 hen eggs in with my 3 duck eggs (as u know) which have been developing nicely i want them to hatch on the same day so i decided to put the duck eggs in a week earlier, so the humidity has been around 50- 60 which i read is ok for duck eggs, but when i put my hen eggs in, i couldn't really get it down, i tried putting in less water, but that didn't work, so i thought it may be to high for them, so i was wondering is it to late to do a dry hatch, I've never done this before so if u have any ideas or tips please help thanks

 

[ki4got]

So how does everyone stop themselves from candling your eggs everyday!?

when I started out, I candled every day, and pretty soon noticed the less I handled the eggs the better the hatch rates were. pretty simple for me. I candle once mid way and when I put them in lockdown.

 

[ki4got]

Ok i have a question, so today i put my 45 hen eggs in with my 3 duck eggs (as u know) which have been developing nicely i want them to hatch on the same day so i decided to put the duck eggs in a week earlier, so the humidity has been around 50- 60 which i read is ok for duck eggs, but when i put my hen eggs in, i couldn't really get it down, i tried putting in less water, but that didn't work, so i thought it may be to high for them, so i was wondering is it to late to do a dry hatch, I've never done this before so if u have any ideas or tips please help thanks

if it's only been a week I wouldn't worry, I just wouldn't add any more water. just monitor temp and ignore humidity until it's time for lockdown, then bring it up to 55-65% and you should be good...

I had a surprise last night, when I moved my day 19 eggs over to the hatcher. 2 cochins had already hatched! think I figured it out tho, I've got lots of broodies in the cochin pens, think they've been hiding eggs between collections, so these ones got an extra day of incubation or 2 maybe. the sfh all look right on time. 2 red cochins also due but no broodies there. just one girl that's 'not right' and won't perch. I call her turtle. her balance is whacked. if you roll her on her back she can't get up. but on her feet she gets around just fine. think one of the big roos may have damaged her, trying to breed her when she was in a mixed flock...

 

[sonderah]

When I went to move my eggs to the hatcher yesterday I realized, I hadn't candled this set at all! Lol So I candled them and ha 7 non fertile eggs!! Wasted all that space in the bator for 11 whole days!!!!! LMBO