january hatch-a-long

[WVduckchick]

Hatching eggs had made me feel less strange for keeping a hairdryer on hand for the pets. My cockatiel had a run in with a fly strip several years back. Dawn dish soap got it out. An hour later he fell off his perch. I was frantic and borrowed a hairdryer for him and watmed him up. He lived, and since then I've kept one on hand for pets. My friends think it's weird!! (All pet ER kits should include one as far as I'm concerned)

My eggs will be 7 days Saturday. Reading all the horror stories of shipped eggs is scaring me a bit. I can keep the heat the same, but the humidity is a nightmare. Fingers crossed *something* hatches! It's my first batch, so it's a learning curve. And yet my Finch egg hatched fine and lived for a month with only one foot.

I have this weird brain that let's real life "leak" into my dreams. As a result I keep dreaming of baby chickens. Now I'm more excited than the kids. Hatch already, I need to name you! I hate waiting. They are going to be sick of heating me coo at them by the time they're born.

Thanks for mentioning the hair dryer. I use one also, and never before you post had I remembered the fact that back in the 80’s-90’s, I used to get perms in my hair, and I had a dryer that was made for curls, so it didn’t blow as hard, but basically provided warm air.
I don’t see the same type available now (with a quick google search) but found this diffuser attachment that will fit many hair dryers. I think I’ll order one! This would be awesome for chicks, so as not to blow them so fiercely!
So thanks for jogging my memory!

 

[Matieus27]

So it looks like I will be hatching again this month after all I have a buddy at work that wants some chickens at a cheap price so I got in contact with a guy selling eggs for eating so I asked if he had a rooster and he had several different breeds and a rooster of each breed so lucky me he should have the eggs in around a week

 

[Matieus27]

And my wife said I could hatch them on counter in the kitchen again

 

[Kiki]

And my wife said I could hatch them on counter in the kitchen again

Night stand/table next to the bed is a good place too.

 

[aliciaplus3]

Night stand/table next to the bed is a good place too.

be careful if your partner sleeps lightly this could get you and the incubator thrown out on hatch night....

 

[Tatuana]

My eggs will be 7 days in the incubator tomorrow at 6pm. If I took one out today to look (the kids want to see....) would you be able to see anything? There's also a few that have... Spots? on the outside. I'm wondering if it's bacteria growth.

 

[muddy75]

My eggs will be 7 days in the incubator tomorrow at 6pm. If I took one out today to look (the kids want to see....) would you be able to see anything? There's also a few that have... Spots? on the outside. I'm wondering if it's bacteria growth.

yes you should be able to see development at day 6.....it would be fine to candle today and then again at day 10-14 and at lockdown. as for spots....pics would help

 

[Tatuana]

I candled them because kids. Two I'm pretty sure are fertile. One had a black mass about the size of a penny with a LONG vine thing coming out of it. At day six you shouldn't see a vein that's nearly an inch long, correct? I thought you should just be able to see them.



This picture has two things with it I'm curious about.

1) the black mass at the top is NOT a shadow. It's in several of my eggs, at different heights in the egg. Some of them are nearly covering the entire egg. If I put the flashlight on the top of the egg no light will get through at all. Is that a good thing?
2) The speckles. A few of my eggs have them. I've read it could mean a bacteria got in? Are the speckles a bad thing?

Here's a better picture of the darkness in the egg. It's not an even line either. Some of them go way up, some go way down. Which leads me to believe it's not an air bubble, I think.

This is one of my 'funky monkey' eggs. I have ... Two? of them. The darkness is WAY off to the side. In this one it's actually split into a W shape, connected at the top.


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Bonus question: Air bubbles in the actual egg itself are bad, right? Like eight or ten little bubbles that are NOT part of the main air bubble. And move around the egg. The air bubble at the top swishes around like in a cup as well. Pretty sure that means the egg is bad, but wanted to double check.


PS I'm not positive it's actually an air bubble I'm talking about. I admit I need to learn.

 

[toredano]

I put a lonely egg from my Delaware hen and a Black Silkie roo in the incubator.Only reason I am doing that is because its her very first egg.. and I want to see what colors that little butt nugget will be..
On day 3 now..

Well. it was a dud.. left it alone for about a week.. candled it and it was a no go.. I dont think it was even fertilized. Ahh well..

 

[toredano]

I candled them because kids. Two I'm pretty sure are fertile. One had a black mass about the size of a penny with a LONG vine thing coming out of it. At day six you shouldn't see a vein that's nearly an inch long, correct? I thought you should just be able to see them.



This picture has two things with it I'm curious about.

1) the black mass at the top is NOT a shadow. It's in several of my eggs, at different heights in the egg. Some of them are nearly covering the entire egg. If I put the flashlight on the top of the egg no light will get through at all. Is that a good thing?
2) The speckles. A few of my eggs have them. I've read it could mean a bacteria got in? Are the speckles a bad thing?
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Here's a better picture of the darkness in the egg. It's not an even line either. Some of them go way up, some go way down. Which leads me to believe it's not an air bubble, I think.

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This is one of my 'funky monkey' eggs. I have ... Two? of them. The darkness is WAY off to the side. In this one it's actually split into a W shape, connected at the top.


View attachment 1639877


Bonus question: Air bubbles in the actual egg itself are bad, right? Like eight or ten little bubbles that are NOT part of the main air bubble. And move around the egg. The air bubble at the top swishes around like in a cup as well. Pretty sure that means the egg is bad, but wanted to double check.


PS I'm not positive it's actually an air bubble I'm talking about. I admit I need to learn.

It looks like none are viable...you should see some sort of spot and a little bit of bloodvessels.