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[Chicken_Lover4567]

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Try telling that to my dad.

There was a cracked egg that we didn't notice until like Day 13. It was stuck to the turners and my dad decided to pull it out. As he was pulling, he crushed it and it exploded. Luckily it didn't hurt any of the other eggs, but it did make my dad lose his dinnner.

Update - I now have seven quail babies!

 

[Rin]

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I actually had an egg I accidentally left laying around for two weeks that I finally found and realized was giving off an aura of smelly and took outside with a thick pair of gloves, goggles, poncho and small sewing needle. I pierced it- and the needle shot out of my hand as the very very foul smelling liquid shot out. People compare sulfur with the smell of rotten egg when really - rotten egg smells NOTHING like sulfur water. NOTHING. I don't MIND the smell of sulfur water... but rotten egg. Good lord. We're talking... it smelled like it IS. A hunk of flesh in a small sealed container left in a warm humid location that went FAR beyond rancid and into the zone of liquified fly magnet. I'm sure more than one or two of you know exactly what I mean when I say that. It took me back to when I was a little kid and discovered that death was forever after my mother buried one of my hamsters in a plastic baggy... long story short rotten egg looks AND smells worse. Yes. That bad. Trust me.

But man haha, mental image of the LOOK you had to have on your face.

I guarantee I had similar. The "pop" is always louder and BIGGER than I expect it to be. Any suggestions on disinfecting an incubator by the way? None of the feed stores out here sell specific disinfectants and I just want a good equivalent to clean up all the gross before I go ahead and start putting in my first few home grown eggs to see if my rooster has been doing his job and hopefully get gran-chickies <3

 

[blackbirds13]

Well Good Luck to all of you still waiting. This is my first incubation but i have been following along in silence. Eggs went into lockdown today - tossed 2 of the 18. Did that eggtopsy thing and 1 was probably not fertile and the other looked as if it quit early on - veins and small embryo but mostly just yolk. Hope I haven't jinxed myself

Candled prior to incubation, day 12 and prior to lockdown. Not sure what I was looking at most of the time but things seem to have changed each time and they seemed more or less dark and filled up at the end there - thought I could see what looked like chicken stuff in there

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Just 3 or 4... or 5 or 7 or 9, 10, 11, 12.....would be great

fingers crossed.

blue and black ameraucanas is what I'm hoping for!

 

[Kedreeva]

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I'm not sure it was right to do, but when I was done with my last hatch, I bleached out EVERYTHING with spray bleach, scrubbed it all hard, rinsed it all down for a long time with my hose, and then I left it in my locked car for about 4 days to bake in this awful heat. I also decided to take someone's advice with 'after first hatch' incubating and add 3% peroxide to my water wells to keep down bacterial bloom. I won't know how well any of this worked until this time next week though, my lil eggs are only on day 3. But... it all SMELLS nice

 

[Rin]

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I'm not sure it was right to do, but when I was done with my last hatch, I bleached out EVERYTHING with spray bleach, scrubbed it all hard, rinsed it all down for a long time with my hose, and then I left it in my locked car for about 4 days to bake in this awful heat. I also decided to take someone's advice with 'after first hatch' incubating and add 3% peroxide to my water wells to keep down bacterial bloom. I won't know how well any of this worked until this time next week though, my lil eggs are only on day 3. But... it all SMELLS nice

Sounds good to me and hmm.. I have the powder bleach stuff I find it works just as good as regular liquid bleach if not better because it uses a soda ash/safer binding agents instead of chlorine or something like that so leaves no dangerous residue - I forget the exact explanation I just know it's suggested for cleaning siding(because it wont poison the ground/plants) which is what I got it for and it worked wonders on my house. XD Peroxide though is a new one

I never thought to use that. Are you saying to use the peroxide in place of water while incubating?

 

[Kedreeva]

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Yeah, someone suggested a while back that using peroxide during a hatch instead of water (since it's only 3% peroxide, the rest is water) keeps his incubator bacteria free. I said yeah, that sounds pretty sharp actually, I'm gonna try it! So this hatch, I am. Wish I was farther along so I could tel ya whether it's working or not. If you search 'peroxide' here on BYC, I think it turns up several threads where people discuss it.

 

[PunkinPeep]

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Yeah, someone suggested a while back that using peroxide during a hatch instead of water (since it's only 3% peroxide, the rest is water) keeps his incubator bacteria free. I said yeah, that sounds pretty sharp actually, I'm gonna try it! So this hatch, I am. Wish I was farther along so I could tel ya whether it's working or not. If you search 'peroxide' here on BYC, I think it turns up several threads where people discuss it.

Are we talking about using the peroxide for humidity in the incubator?

I'm no expert, but i seem to remember from chemistry class, that if you leave the lid off of the peroxide bottle, it will very shortly BE water. Hydrogen Peroxide is h2o2. Water is h2o. When the h2o2 is allowed to evaporate, is loses one of the o's and becomes h2o.

Just a thought. I'm not sure it would make a big difference for very long.

I also don't know how long it takes for that extra "o" to evaporate.

 

[Rin]

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Yeah, someone suggested a while back that using peroxide during a hatch instead of water (since it's only 3% peroxide, the rest is water) keeps his incubator bacteria free. I said yeah, that sounds pretty sharp actually, I'm gonna try it! So this hatch, I am. Wish I was farther along so I could tel ya whether it's working or not. If you search 'peroxide' here on BYC, I think it turns up several threads where people discuss it.

Are we talking about using the peroxide for humidity in the incubator?

I'm no expert, but i seem to remember from chemistry class, that if you leave the lid off of the peroxide bottle, it will very shortly BE water. Hydrogen Peroxide is h2o2. Water is h2o. When the h2o2 is allowed to evaporate, is loses one of the o's and becomes h2o.

Just a thought. I'm not sure it would make a big difference for very long.

I also don't know how long it takes for that extra "o" to evaporate.

Hmmm so distilled water would do the same essentially? Actually. Just looked it up.

http://www.lenntech.com/processes/disinfection/chemical/disinfectants-hydrogen-peroxide.htm

Seems its used in even making the washing powder I mentioned and used to keep bacterial growth down in water systems all the time :> Will definatelyyyy try this for my next hatch next time!

"Hydrogen peroxide reacts very fast. It will than disintegrate into hydrogen and water, without the formation of byproducts. This increases the amount of oxygen in water." and then the higher oxygen in the bator might mean they can get a better "breath" even I bet even though it mentions serious side effects when exposed to h2o2 - I don't think it it means the oxygen resulting from it..

 

[GeeVee]

Hi all-
Right now is the very beginning of day 21 for my hatch.
So far-
3 babies (all hatched on day 20) and at least 5 or 6 pips, although I could be missing some because I don't want to lift the lid too much.
The doublewide hasn't pipped yet, but there is still time.
I hear lots of chirping

 

[Rin]

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Woot! Go eggies go! its your hatch day, it's your hatch day!

Need pictures btw XD