June Hatch-A-Long

[missnu01]

Creeping right along getting closer and closer to lock down on the 5th, and then hopefully hatching on the 7th or 8th. Most of my eggs end up hatching on day 20. Sometimes a couple are left until day 21, but by day 20 all are pipped...so not a whole lot going on my way. Looks like all 18 are developing which seems odd because there's usually at least--at least--one blood ring by this time. Speaking of which I'm going to go check the eggs now. And see if I still have all 18 going. Usually whatever is still there after the first week is there to stay.

 

[missnu01]

Never mind it's not dark enough to candle...gotta wait. I hope I can find where my hens are laying their eggs before the 29th. Nah starting on the 28th I'm just going to lock them all inside the coop until I am getting the right number of eggs again. The hens have revolted and only one is laying in the coop presently. So I will only have 10 eggs my the time I need to start a new batch and that isn't cool. I need at least 20-25. I was getting 3 eggs everyday from 4 hens. Now I'm getting mostly one, and if I'm lucky I'll get 2. Either way gotta fix it quick. So tomorrow everyone will be held hostage until they go back to using their nests.

 

[Mypeeps2013]

Good luck!!

Thanks

 

[Serenity Lane]

I just put my quails into lockdown... not sure there is life in any of them but we will see

Good luck!!

 

[missnu01]

Well just as I suspected, one egg out of the 18 was an early quitter, and it wasn't a porous egg. The egg did have a meat spot though. So I was wondering how that would go. I put the egg in a bag and cracked it open so I could see exactly what was going on in there, and it looked like a tiny alien creature. Huge eyes, tiny wings, tiny feet, no skin. Was weird...and amazing. To think 10 days ago that chick was just a dot on the side of an egg yolk. Hopefully these last 17 make it to lockdown. I usually hatch all that make it to lockdown. So we will see. Porous eggs and all. So my hypothesis is that porous eggs are fine, and meat spots are not fine.

 

[Meca]

Well just as I suspected, one egg out of the 18 was an early quitter, and it wasn't a porous egg. The egg did have a meat spot though. So I was wondering how that would go. I put the egg in a bag and cracked it open so I could see exactly what was going on in there, and it looked like a tiny alien creature. Huge eyes, tiny wings, tiny feet, no skin. Was weird...and amazing. To think 10 days ago that chick was just a dot on the side of an egg yolk. Hopefully these last 17 make it to lockdown. I usually hatch all that make it to lockdown. So we will see. Porous eggs and all. So my hypothesis is that porous eggs are fine, and meat spots are not fine.

total newbie. What's a meat spot?

 

[Joplus]

I'm setting my eggs tomorrow so due around June 19th. Can I join you guys? I am picking up my eggs today. I have a dozen blue, black splash americauna,a half dozen cream legbars, a half dozen blue black splash orphingtons, and a dozen quail eggs. I just set up my incubator last night. Last time (my first time) I just set the temp gauge probe on top of my eggs. I had a hugely successful hatch (31 out of 34). This time I bought a water wiggler and stuck the probe in. The temp is 97.5 in the water wiggler. So hoping it reaches 99.5 soon. The gauge on top reads 101. Its a still air. So we'll see. Also I am maybe planning on setting the quail in about 5 days so they all hatch at once. But how to store them til then?

 

[Loghousemom]

Store them in a cool place with the wide end up. Rotate them a couple times a day until you set them. I like to use a basement closet because my temps in there stay about 65 degrees. I stick the eggs in cartons with the wide ends up and then elevate one side of the carton in the morning then go in at bedtime and switch the elevated side. Good luck!

 

[Joplus]

There are no cool places here in AZ. The house runs about 80° with the a/c. I'm working on a cooler right now. I am going to put a frozen gallon on the bottom and put something insulating over it and the egg carton on top. The breeder I used before used a wine storage I think. But I'm not about to buy something. AZ has so many interesting challenges. The humidity here is 10% so lockdown last time was hard but then once they started hatching the humidity jumped up way high anyway.

 

[missnu01]

Well just as I suspected, one egg out of the 18 was an early quitter, and it wasn't a porous egg. The egg did have a meat spot though. So I was wondering how that would go. I put the egg in a bag and cracked it open so I could see exactly what was going on in there, and it looked like a tiny alien creature. Huge eyes, tiny wings, tiny feet, no skin. Was weird...and amazing. To think 10 days ago that chick was just a dot on the side of an egg yolk. Hopefully these last 17 make it to lockdown. I usually hatch all that make it to lockdown. So we will see. Porous eggs and all. So my hypothesis is that porous eggs are fine, and meat spots are not fine.

total newbie. What's a meat spot?

sometimes you will get an egg with a little blood spot, or brown piece of tissue where the hen has shed a bit of her reproductive track and it got basically deposited in the egg with the yolk. Sort of gross, but fine to eat. Not to hatch. Out of 18 eggs all were fertile fertile and showing movement. Except the one that had the meat spot that died early on.