KDOGG331’s Hatch Thread!!!

[ShrekDawg]

Idk if you can see it, more obvious in person, but some of them have like black streaks or stripes or smears or something too??

 

[ShrekDawg]

And one has three little black dots

 

[ShrekDawg]

@Kiki

 

[microchick]

I'd have to go back and look at them again, Kel but in my experience I see #1 and I think it's 12. 12 tentative as there is a lot of vascular development but.....the upper margin looks a bit funky. #10 is dark. As in too dark to really visualize. Yes,seeing quite a few blood rings going on. Sorry. I hate to tell people that because I hate to see that in my own hatching eggs.

Who knows what goes wrong. Sometimes it's the roll of the dice.What I've seen is that fluctuations aren't as important as constant temps either too high or too low. Think about this before you go and get a hammer and start beating yourself over the head with it. You do that and I'm going to get upset and cry. Broody hens get off the nest for periods of time and during that time temperatures drop. I'm not sure how much they drop but they do drop. I've found eggs feeling just 'warm' with the hen off the nest and have rushed in to plug in the Brinsea, only to go back to the coop and find the broody back on the eggs.

So I wouldn't be alarmed by a degree temperature drop as long as it isn't sustained. Same with humidity. Hens do not have a built in hydrometer in their broody patch on their bellies.. She doesn't lift her feathers and say, goodness! The humidity is only 34% I'd better goose it up a bit.....

Hopefully @Kiki will be back soon and fill in the blanks for me. i'm wondering if them being shipped eggs and shipped in cold weather has something to do with viability but that is just a wild guess.

 

[Kiki]

Here’s some pics I took. Maybe I’m wrong but I really don’t think I am.

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Shizzle sticks.
None of these look good.

Are you sure you haven't had a temp spike?

 

[Kiki]

Have you been checking the bator daily watching the temp?

I don't think temp drops are as bad as temp spikes.

 

[microchick]

@Kiki, what do you think about #1 and #12?#12 looks abnormal around the air cell but what about #1?

 

[ShrekDawg]

I'd have to go back and look at them again, Kel but in my experience I see #1 and I think it's 12. 12 tentative as there is a lot of vascular development but.....the upper margin looks a bit funky. #10 is dark. As in too dark to really visualize. Yes,seeing quite a few blood rings going on. Sorry. I hate to tell people that because I hate to see that in my own hatching eggs.

Who knows what goes wrong. Sometimes it's the roll of the dice.What I've seen is that fluctuations aren't as important as constant temps either too high or too low. Think about this before you go and get a hammer and start beating yourself over the head with it. You do that and I'm going to get upset and cry. Broody hens get off the nest for periods of time and during that time temperatures drop. I'm not sure how much they drop but they do drop. I've found eggs feeling just 'warm' with the hen off the nest and have rushed in to plug in the Brinsea, only to go back to the coop and find the broody back on the eggs.

So I wouldn't be alarmed by a degree temperature drop as long as it isn't sustained. Same with humidity. Hens do not have a built in hydrometer in their broody patch on their bellies.. She doesn't lift her feathers and say, goodness! The humidity is only 34% I'd better goose it up a bit.....

Hopefully @Kiki will be back soon and fill in the blanks for me. i'm wondering if them being shipped eggs and shipped in cold weather has something to do with viability but that is just a wild guess.

Thank you! This makes me feel a lot better because yes I was starting to do the hammer thing a tad kinda still am. Practically every single one was either bad or too dark to see or a maybe and it was really upsetting.

And that could definitely be! Although I think it was pretty mild the week they shipped but who knows what it wasn’t like elsewhere.

And yeah 12 was throwing me off cause I thought for sure it was a blood ring but then I turned it over and there looked to be a lot of development so who knows.

Shizzle sticks.
None of these look good.

Are you sure you haven't had a temp spike?

Well, I took multiple pictures of some of the eggs so that’s not all of them, maybe only about 5, and I didn’t take pics of every single one, so I think I still have some good ones hopefully.

I know I have at least another blood ring or two and some clears.

A few others were too dark to see.

I hope I don’t wind up with no chicks

So you don’t think the one in the first pic is good?

I’m gonna go back and separate the pics by egg.

And I don’t think I have? But idk. I check it a lot and one corner sometimes seems to run a bit high but no eggs are in that corner and lately it’s been pretty steady.

There seem to be issues from all across the bator.

I did just move the eggs the other day, day 5. Maybe I should have just left them. I thought I was supposed to move them around to get a better hatch rate but maybe I killed them.

Have you been checking the bator daily watching the temp?

I don't think temp drops are as bad as temp spikes.

Yeah, I check it all the time. Whenever I go upstairs or walk by it I check it. Which is a lot haha but usually when I wake up, at least a few times during the day, and before bed.

And that’s good to know. Thanks.

 

[ShrekDawg]

@Kiki, what do you think about #1 and #12?#12 looks abnormal around the air cell but what about #1?

Yeah 12 looks really funky.

 

[Kiki]

@Kiki, what do you think about #1 and #12?#12 looks abnormal around the air cell but what about #1?

I don't think either look good.
It looks like the veins are shrinking to me/on their way out.