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[peacelover]

Ok, I got 2 dozen standard mixed from SIL and 1 dozen silkies for the girls in the bator, oh and added 2 random mixed banties from our flock.

It's been 2 weeks, candled and all the banties are doing well, had to throw out a rotten standard (Oh how it smelled!) and there were 5 that weren't growing, out they went.

Temps and humidity have been holding steady, and we are hoping for a great hatch this time!!!!

They should be here next Sunday!!

 

[mrbstephens]

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If I were you, I wouldn't toss the one you think has a blood line. I had one of those and thankfully did not toss it and now (day 12) I have a happy little chick dancing inside the egg. Those green eggs are really hard to look into. IMO you never really can tell. Might be a bad idea, but I plan to keep all of mine until lock down.

I hope you have a good hatch.

I haven't thrown any of them out yet for the same reason. I'd hate to find that I tossed a developing chick! I figured I check again in a few days and make a decision then.

Today is day 13 for me and I candled for the second time. Turns out the one I thought had a blood ring and was dead, was NOT dead and is developing nicely!!!!

So, I have 4 out of 5 developing!!!! BOTH of the eggs from my recently deceased EE are are among them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[chichi56788]

Today is day 13 for me and I candled for the second time. Turns out the one I thought had a blood ring and was dead, was NOT dead and is developing nicely!!!!

So, I have 4 out of 5 developing!!!! BOTH of the eggs from my recently deceased EE are are among them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Things like this make me feal better about the duck eggs Im worried about. I thought one was dead (my brother's) but it wasnt.

Im glad I didnt tell him I thought it was. I cant imagine how much he would have cried!​

 

[Illia]

Finally culled my eggs down. On day 15, and I went from 21 eggs to 9 eggs.

One of them was just the weirdest though. . . The chick was developing until about day 9, then it suddenly stuck to the shell, lost all its veining, and went all brown and crusty. Weirdest thing ever - When I culled it, the chick was literally cooked and glued to the inside of the shell, and all the blood pooled to the edges of the embryo.

 

[ducklover101202]

My duck eggs are due May 14th!

 

[dustponds10]

I set my eggs on the 1st so I am in. It is my first time that I have done this so it is awesome.

 

[chichi56788]

I absolutely cant wait for my duck eggs to hatch. They are all doing well now at about 6 days. Only 26 more days 'till lock down! Ill be out of school by then!

 

[Peep_Show]

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I had a very similar situation happen to me... I relied on the Acu-Rite (it's new! it's digital!) and managed to get the incubator up to 101 per its calibration, which in reality FRIED my eggs as it was more like 107 in there. Now I use it ONLY to monitor the humidity and not for the accuracy of it but just if it registers "LO" that I'm at emergency time to refill the reservoirs...otherwise I keep it in the 30/40% range and reset the rest of the Acu-Rite unit to read as a clock. P.O.S. is the nicest thought I can come up with for this Wal-Mart garbage.

That being said, I have the flat incubator-provided liquid thermometer near the floor of the incubator and my fancier (and more accurate) liquid thermometer riding the top of the eggs. It is just 102 on top of the eggs and a shade under 100 on the floor, so somewhere inbetween is Nirvana because the eggs are candling well in a nearly 20 y.o. Miller LG complete with rat bites in the styrofoam for the decade it was stored under Mom's house.

 

[chichi56788]

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I had a very similar situation happen to me... I relied on the Acu-Rite (it's new! it's digital!) and managed to get the incubator up to 101 per its calibration, which in reality FRIED my eggs as it was more like 107 in there. Now I use it ONLY to monitor the humidity and not for the accuracy of it but just if it registers "LO" that I'm at emergency time to refill the reservoirs...otherwise I keep it in the 30/40% range and reset the rest of the Acu-Rite unit to read as a clock. P.O.S. is the nicest thought I can come up with for this Wal-Mart garbage.

That being said, I have the flat incubator-provided liquid thermometer near the floor of the incubator and my fancier (and more accurate) liquid thermometer riding the top of the eggs. It is just 102 on top of the eggs and a shade under 100 on the floor, so somewhere inbetween is Nirvana because the eggs are candling well in a nearly 20 y.o. Miller LG complete with rat bites in the styrofoam for the decade it was stored under Mom's house.

Im actually using a meat thermometer and it is working nicely. Since meat thermometers have to be actuate when measuring heat of meat, i think it is perfect for eggs!

 

[Hennypen]

Chicks due May 20.

16 eggs were shipped, 16 eggs looked good upon arrival. They went into the incubator April 28 so we're 5 days in already. I've only done spot checks here and there and so far the ones I have looked at appear to be good.

I don't want to jinx myself, but after reading about the incubator/temp/humidity problems, I have to give a plug for my new one. It's a Genesis 1588 Hovabator w/egg turner. Temp/humidity only changes when I open the box to add water. I've been very pleased.