Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[ChooksChick]

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I candle at day 10 and day 18.

December 21 and December 29th-- Lockdown, or "Period" if you prefer.

Lordy, if we're going to start the debate on that terminology again, I'm suggesting 'confinement' like before it was acceptable for a pregnant woman to be out in the world when she was showing.

Day 18, we begin the 'confinement.'

 

[NoSkiveez]

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I candle at day 10 and day 18.

December 21 and December 29th-- Lockdown, or "Period" if you prefer.

So I guess the Raising Chickens for Dummies suggestion of candling on days 4, 7, 10, 14 and 17 is overkill? It's my first hatch so would candling that much kill anything? I promise to keep my pellet stove going with room temp above 68 during candling!

I think I candled my first hatch like that. I don't now. I aim at 10-12 days and day 18.

 

[donnie]

Chooks Chicks .... i still have 4 of the 6 boys , one is going to be big , one is going to be tall and lanky , and the two smaller ones are slow growing lol , but ill get you a pic of them

 

[ksf59]

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I candle at day 10 and day 18.

December 21 and December 29th-- Lockdown, or "Period" if you prefer.

So I guess the Raising Chickens for Dummies suggestion of candling on days 4, 7, 10, 14 and 17 is overkill? It's my first hatch so would candling that much kill anything? I promise to keep my pellet stove going with room temp above 68 during candling!

Depends what you set. With light sheeled eggs, you can see the beginning embryo and veining at 4, with dark sheeled eggs not so much. At 7 day on light eggs veining is very evident and can see other feature. With dark eggs, just a dark clump. At 10 more developement on light eggs, dark eggs, just bigger clump. Same al the way thruough. Pretty hard to see anything , except a growing dark clump in dark shelled eggs. There is some thought that too much candleing can lead to some fetal death. The embryo's are very tender at day 4. I ck mine at day 10 or so, and then at day eighteen. I look mostly for some developement (clump) at day ten, and see how the air cell is . At day 18, I can noly see the air cell in dark eggs. Some lighter eggs you can see the yolk sac yet and chicken part. I dont see much in any of mine . The eggs are just to dark shelled. Good luck, and keep the fire on.

 

[SteveH]

OK , caught up reading .

I drove to the nearest town with a farm supply store and wallyworld . No mishaps for me but passed a bad wreck caused by black ice [ I pray they are all right , only civilians there but they had the broken windows covered with plastic bags to keep those trapped inside warmer , and I met the rescue vehicles a few miles on farther ]

Found an Acurite outdoor thermometer , only one available that wasn't wireless , at wallie's ; layer krumbles were marked down to $7.99 at Farm King

. Van's rear doors were frozen so only bought 5 bags to stack on the passenger seat , but still happy .

Acurite's probe fits through plugged vent , plug holds it in place , temp registering at 98.8 to 99.8 between cycles at the middle of the egg

. May tweek it a little later . Bulb type is on top of the eggs and at 100 to just under 102 , I'm thinking they are both right . My Springfield , which stayed at 100.4 while the other read the same as now , is down in a corner where eggs got rolled by chicks last time and then failed to hatch . It reads 96 ; no wonder they didn't pip . I'll add a fan next time . Plus hatching in cartons this time ; no more egg soccer .

 

[gryeyes]

I candle some of the eggs at day 10 or 12, and again at day 18 just before lockdown. I am such a wuss I stop candling as soon as I find signs of life in an egg. That's all I want to know: is SOMETHING alive? And so far, I have never discarded eggs, just put 'em right back in the 'bator. Too skeered I might have missed something alive. Everybody gets 25 days to hatch, just in case.

But I am a wuss, so don't follow MY example!

I guess, since I did stack 3 extra eggs in there, I will have to discard duds to make room. Somebody's gonna have to hold my hand in 10 days!

 

[debilorrah]

I got curious. I candled an egg and I can see CLEARLY through these. VEINS! YAY! Just one egg though. I'll wait til lockdown.

 

[kathyinmo]

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I don't know how to do that. Do I have to be your friend to do that? I am a facebook flunkie....

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You guys never should have let me join. Next year you should have some kind of pre-test to keep us crazy new people out of it with all our silly questions.

Ready for the next one?

I waited the 8 hours for everything to stabilize. The Octagon 20's factory thermometer reads about 99.8. The digital readout on my Flukers which is about an inch lower and on the side of my incubator says 97.5. Which do I trust?!


You can see where the digital Flukers is in this picture prior to putting the lid on:

 

[kathyinmo]

First this .....
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