Need some hatching buddies - Hatching May 24-28

[wowmanacat]

I see that some are talking of buying a candler. I had my husband make me one. It is a coffee can with a hole in bottom for the light socket to fit in. I have a yogurt lid over the bottom of the light socket for safety. In the coffee can lid I cut a hole for the eggs to sit in and put foil around the lid the put it on the can. cost me around 3 bucks to make, and that was for the light socket. It works great for last night I candled my eggs and found that I have 14/17 that are good.

 

[fifelakelooper]

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I made one very similar using a tissue box....it just isn't giving me the details I want. I'm getting older...it may be partly my vision One of the things about the candler ..the ovascope ...is that it has a built in magnifier. I LIKE THAT!!

 

[wowmanacat]

I wait till after dark to do my candling and last night I was seeing a lot of moving. I was so thrilled about it.

 

[goddardd]

Whoo hoo! Candled last night and saw
lots of movement. Yeah!
Diane in Texas

 

[Cynthia12]

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Doesn't it look GREAT? But nothing worse than finding out you missed out on one cheaper!! Where did you find it?

Oh well..only 10 dollars cheaper right?..found it after I googled it, and it was Brinsea..sorry!

I have one of those candler someone else here was talking about..bad with names sorry, maybe I will get to know you all once we get going here, but any way, my husband used a big peach can or something similar. I candled..lots going on in my eggs too!

 

[UrbanFarmerGirl]

I have a question- When you are counting until day 21 (Hatch Day!) would I count the first morning (a Tuesday) that I put the egg under the hen as day #1, or would I count the next morning/day (Wednesday) as day #1? I put my eggs under on Tuesday the 5th- just trying to figure out if the hatch day should be Tuesday the 26th, or a day sooner or later?

 

[fifelakelooper]

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Urban...when you count you count as 24 hours. So if you put your eggs in on April 7th at 6am...then April 8th at 6am will be day #1.

 

[Cynthia12]

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yep, like fife said, you count the day after setting. Wed. you start counting.

 

[Stevenson]

I was told that your hatch date is the same day of the week as your set date when I asked the same question.

 

[lebentier]

i was told the same thing as stevenson..day one is the day you set your eggs, unless you set in the evening and then the next day is day one. hmmmm...