Mahonri's First Annual New Year's Day Hatch/Jan 2010

[MuranoFarms]

I candled. but honestly....it looks all disorganized! lol This is my first duck egg though, and boy is it huge! So maybe I'm not sure what I'm looking at.

Edited to add: for the sake of stats it is developing, just in a wider area then the smaller silkie eggs I've done up till now! lol

 

[sekinkead]

Well I candled last night and it looks like they are all developing, but I some large and weird shaped air cells. I decided to up the humidity a bit to 40% and see if that helps. Not sure what else to do. These were the shipped eggs I thought may have frozen, so if I get even a couple to hatch I will be happy. I may buy more next month and drive down to pick them up. 2 hours or so each way, but I think I may have better luck if I do that.

 

[pinkchick]

Candled this morning

17 out of 18 Welsummers are good
12 out of 14 Marans look good as far as I can see...too dark. out of the other two one looks as though it may have a blood ring but can't really determine that, nothing going on in the other that I can see.

I will not be candling again...from here I shoot from the hip, what happens happens. Sorry if this messes with your stats Mahonri.
I will post stats of the hatch for you though.
Good luck everyone and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mahonri]

Well we are over the hump folks. It's down hill from here.

I'm still doing the dry hatch method... keeping the humidity between 30% & 35%.

Brinsea is staying steady at 99.6 degrees.

I have three thermometers in the Hovabator.

One says 100, the next says 99.1 and the other says 99.0.

I hope it's warm enough in there.

 

[Lop333]

So tossed all the clear shipped eggs and candled again so out of my own six i have three light brown eggs and three darker eggs and two of the dark were blood rings and the third is questionable so i left it in .But the other remaining three are perfect and moving around in there!!! at least from the looks of it i will get three out of my first hatch. the rooster is a barred rock and the hen is a aracauna so thats what they will be .......still excited !!!!

 

[Mahonri]

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You've got a great attitude. Were your shipped eggs for a 'test hatch" and perhaps unfertile or do you think they were just scrambled? I like to do 'eggtopsies' on my clears. If the yolk looks intact, it's probably a roo and hen problem. If the yolk is not intact you can blame the rough riders of the US Postal Service.

 

[rosco]

all,

I'm out. i think all mine either never started or dropped out.

Been Great and i'll watch your hatches.

I posted pictures of day 14 candling a short while ago, "OOOPS, Candling Continued on Day 14."

-r

 

[oe bantams]

Who did you get your wheaten blue wheaten ameraucana's from?

 

[dinahmoe]

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SORRY YOURS DIDN'T GO WELL.I AM NEW AT THIS BUT I CAN USUALLY SEE VEINING AT DAY 3-5 AND I COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING IN YOURS.IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THEY WERE FERTILE OR THEY GOT SCRAMBLED(IF SHIPPED).YOUR TEMPS AND HUMIDITY SOUNDED OK. I HOPE ALL GOES WELL WITH YOUR NEXT HATCHING ATTEMPT.

 

[Mahonri]

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If this question was directed toward me...

I got 14 from Pips & Peeps (9 of which are still in the bators) and then I have a quite a few of my own w/Bw in the bators.