New Incubator Mom 🥰

[lwb_53]

My son bought me a Little flying saucer intelligent Incubator and my husband set it up. I put 5 Rhode Island Red brown eggs in it 8 days ago.

Last night I decided to try and candle them. I've never done this before but it was really hard to see more than a blob. I thought I saw something moving in one of them. Lol.

I also noticed in the directions that it says to add water the last 3 days. My husband has a water bottle attached and it has been there since day 1. Is this a problem?

I'm attaching pictures from last night in hope that someone can verify if eggs are good.

Thanks for your help!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I also noticed in the directions that it says to add water the last 3 days. My husband has a water bottle attached and it has been there since day 1. Is this a problem?

It could potentially be a huge problem.. do you have a hygrometer that says what the humidity actually is? Suggested parameters for first 18 days according to my huge amount of hatching experience (and the egg color, presuming they're fresh within a week when set) is 35-45%. Your ambient humidity will effect how many wells need filling to reach desired humitidy inside bator.. completely dry.. it usually runs about 30% lower than ambient in MY experience.

Too high of humidity causes small air sack, potentially allowing the chick to grow too large to turn into position for hatcing.. possibly resulting in malpositions, splay legs, and drowning or mushy chick syndrome where the naval doesn't close all the way.

Candling isn't my strong suit.. I do like to candle from the air cell (small) end.. it's easier to see the veining there. But those blobs.. don't look round like undeveloped yolks would.. I'll admit I was looking forward to seeing the videos and they just ended up being screen shots.

Movement.. is one of the coolest things to see!

ETA: I might as well include my favorite technical hatching resource..

https://www.hubbardbreeders.com/media/incubation_guideen__053407700_1525_26062017.pdf

And another.. even with the links that no longer work is still a hugely valuable source of information..

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...hatching-chicken-eggs-aka-hatching-101.64195/

 

[Crazychickengirl2]

Could you try to do that again but hold the egg still please?

Never mind

 

[lwb_53]

The little runt has the feeding figured out. Lol

 

[lwb_53]

Updated pic of the chicks- 2 weeks old today. 4 more eggs in the incubator (day 14).

 

[Firsttimehens1234]

If it’s day 8 it’s likely that you saw movement, the most important thing is that you can see veins in the egg

 

[lwb_53]

Ok, I'm trying to attach the video again. Thank you for the links.

 

[lwb_53]

It could potentially be a huge problem.. do you have a hygrometer that says what the humidity actually is? Suggested parameters for first 18 days according to my huge amount of hatching experience (and the egg color, presuming they're fresh within a week when set) is 35-45%. Your ambient humidity will effect how many wells need filling to reach desired humitidy inside bator.. completely dry.. it usually runs about 30% lower than ambient in MY experience.



Too high of humidity causes small air sack, potentially allowing the chick to grow too large to turn into position for hatcing.. possibly resulting in malpositions, splay legs, and drowning or mushy chick syndrome where the naval doesn't close all the way.



Candling isn't my strong suit.. I do like to candle from the air cell (small) end.. it's easier to see the veining there. But those blobs.. don't look round like undeveloped yolks would.. I'll admit I was looking forward to seeing the videos and they just ended up being screen shots.



Movement.. is one of the coolest things to see! 



ETA: I might as well include my favorite technical hatching resource..



https://www.hubbardbreeders.com/media/incubation_guideen__053407700_1525_26062017.pdf



And another.. even with the links that no longer work is still a hugely valuable source of information..



https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...hatching-chicken-eggs-aka-hatching-101.64195/

 

[lwb_53]

I'm trying to reattach the video

 

[lwb_53]

Trying again