I don't think I did anything special before except keep them upright-oh, and remember to turn the humidity up at lockdown. Your "tilting" incubator is what I was trying to replicate with external 45° tilts.
Speaking of Guinea Farm, has anyone seen/ heard from my 2 butterflies?
@My2butterfliesSpeaking of Guinea Farm, has anyone seen/ heard from my 2 butterflies?
If you think YOU'RE rambling, you haven't read many of my posts. Lol.
I have the NR360,but this is only 2nd attempted hatch w/it,so not familiar w/quirks. It does have auto horizontal turner,I started these off that way, but it seemed awfully rough w/ my eggs, and was concerned w/air cells so changed back.
I'm not sure if you & Mixed are reading me as saying I don't want to turn at all, or if I'm failing to read you saying routine tilting at 45° opposed angles isn't good enough compared to turning? - I can turn them all day long, I just want to do it the safest way, & thought minimal contact and opening would be good. The auto just seems to ROLL them a lot.
It's hard to say what they went through getting here, it took 2 days from Fl. To Ind. I know, crazy, but if my babies hadn't been infected, I'd have 4-6 from last batch.
I opted to use #2 as my model because it swishes around pretty good, isn't fertile, is the one that led to the questions, "is that what they mean by scrambled?" and "are those floaty things on their way to becoming bacteria?"
Ok, vent wide open, put the distilled water back. Ambient Humidity here is down to 72% now, was 83% earlier.
Do you keep track of your weights?
That’s a seriously messed up air cell! Thanks for sharing the video. Was it an egg you incubated? Just wondering if that hatched…Oh, I can ramble with the best of them, believe me. lol! @Mixed flock enthusiast and @R2elk have both been privy to my rambling sessions.
The egg in your video definitely looks scrambled to me but I set all of my eggs too regardless of how they look inside. I only bypass blatantly icky eggs. I've posted entire threads of hatching undesirable eggs (repaired cracks, oblong, porous) because I just can't help myself. I have to at least try, lol!
In my personal experience tilting doesn't work as well as the automatic turner. I only tilt when there is a completely detached air cell, like in the video of a goose egg.
If the air cells are jiggly, saddled, or otherwise not completely on the side of the egg, I will put them in the turner.
I have monitored weight for an experiment but it's super time consuming and I prefer to monitor air cell growth because it's easier for me but weighing is definitely a foolproof method for those that are new and don't know what to look for.
Now that I've seen your video I'll know what to look for specifically. Thank you! Maybe we could organize a visual encyclopedia of damaged/deformed egg videos w/comments turned off so it doesn't get gummed up, bc that's a big help over reading or even still photos.Oh, I can ramble with the best of them, believe me. lol! @Mixed flock enthusiast and @R2elk have both been privy to my rambling sessions.
The egg in your video definitely looks scrambled to me but I set all of my eggs too regardless of how they look inside. I only bypass blatantly icky eggs. I've posted entire threads of hatching undesirable eggs (repaired cracks, oblong, porous) because I just can't help myself. I have to at least try, lol!
In my personal experience tilting doesn't work as well as the automatic turner. I only tilt when there is a completely detached air cell, like in the video of a goose egg.
If the air cells are jiggly, saddled, or otherwise not completely on the side of the egg, I will put them in the turner.
I have monitored weight for an experiment but it's super time consuming and I prefer to monitor air cell growth because it's easier for me but weighing is definitely a foolproof method for those that are new and don't know what to look for.
That's when they went back in the egg crate.
Wow! Never say never, huh?
Now that I've seen your video I'll know what to look for specifically. Thank you! Maybe we could organize a visual encyclopedia of damaged/deformed egg videos w/comments turned off so it doesn't get gummed up, bc that's a big help over reading or even still photos.
I do like tracking their weight. That cld be an occupational hazard, just trading in humans for eggs. But I keep it w/my batch notes so I can compare, hopefully learn.
I hadn't started tilt with this batch, so we're good there. I did tilt the last 2 weeks w/the last batch. I'll keep hand turning for now. Using the auto turn is sound advice & I was looking forward to having it. Some of my eggs are abt as big as chicken eggs, but- and it seems like it's always the lighter eggs- some are are much smaller, so they really do get rolled around. The day I did use it, one of the smaller eggs had been bumped over the barrier into it's neighbor's section, pointed end out.
Now that I've seen your video I'll know what to look for specifically. Thank you! Maybe we could organize a visual encyclopedia of damaged/deformed egg videos w/comments turned off so it doesn't get gummed up, bc that's a big help over reading or even still photos.
I do like tracking their weight. That cld be an occupational hazard, just trading in humans for eggs. But I keep it w/my batch notes so I can compare, hopefully learn.
I hadn't started tilt with this batch, so we're good there. I did tilt the last 2 weeks w/the last batch. I'll keep hand turning for now. Using the auto turn is sound advice & I was looking forward to having it. Some of my eggs are abt as big as chicken eggs, but- and it seems like it's always the lighter eggs- some are are much smaller, so they really do get rolled around. The day I did use it, one of the smaller eggs had been bumped over the barrier into it's neighbor's section, pointed end out.
