Our Egg Hatching thread! Hatch: Nov. 7th (Hatching Video PG 57)

[klf73]

I am so impatient I am lucky to wait until day 4! I can actually candle them in the carton. When I open the bator to turn, I candle before I turn. On day 4 the embryo is usually right up against the shell on the "up" side. So I don't even have to handle them.

 

[Jamie821]

A lot of people are doing that now . I cant because mine are in a automatic turner. I can never catch it at the right angle. Always a little late or a little early. OH for the good ole days of hand turning. It is amazing though. I love to look at them at 10 days and watch their little legs kicking.

 

[kodiakchicken]

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Aaarrrggghhhh! How will I ever wait that long!

Day 10 is a whole four days away!!!!!

(Yeah, patience is NOT one of my virtues)

 

[MichiganWoods]

kodiakchicken,

I can just picture the scene with your kids and the egg candling. That's awesome.

You're having a tough time waiting to candle... I'm having a tough time waiting for them to hatch!

Now if only I could acquire Hero's powers and jump to the 7th to see what's hatching.

klf73, I wish it were that easy to see mine! That's the price I pay for having colored eggs though I guess.

Jamie, I'm hoping some BYC member

(someone, anyone?) will have a batch of 6 blue Easter Egger eggs for me on or around the hatch date of these guys and are willing to ship. I have a feeling that none of my blue eggs are gonna produce, but we'll still have to wait and see. - Is it possible for a pullet hatched out of a green or olive egg to lay blue eggs?

 

[Jamie821]

yes that is the fun of it never know what you will get. I have blue eggers but the two roos are not quite old enough to breed yet. If you dont find any by spring let me know and I will have some and will mail them to you. Most of mine lay blue or more turquoise. But some do lay pink olive green and other colors. I can send you all blue though because my ameracaunas lay nothing but blue but like i said the roos are just a little to young yet.

 

[skeeter9]

Hey there, my little fuzz butts are due to hatch on the 7th also. Yippeeeee! I've got hatching buddies!!! Oh, well, I'd better not count my chicks before they hatch - these are shipped eggs and several were severely crushed and contaminated all the others, so I'm not holding out much hope. I'm making myself wait until day 7 (tomorrow) to candle, but who knows, maybe I'll give in and do it tonight. Then I'll know whether to be excited or not!

Good luck to everyone!!!!

 

[MichiganWoods]

Mine were shipped too, skeeter9. And actually, I did one more quick candle and discovered that I have 14 viable eggs, and over the course of the last 24 hours... the babies have gotten hyper! They bounce up and down a lot, and don't like to sit still for pictures. (Just like my kids!!)

Viables:

5 purebred Rhode Island Whites

9 Amer/Easter Eggers

A Viable Egg candled:

I am pretty sure this one is a blood ring. Anybody?

 

[pbjmaker]

Looks like a bloodring to me...

but I did have one viable egg that developed its first vein like that so ???? wait???

 

[MichiganWoods]

I'll let it be until day 12/14 . I will take it out at that point though if nothing much has changed. Don't want to risk bacteria.

Oh, I think I've figured out how to check the dark shelled eggs for chicks! I can't see into them to see veining, but I can see the dark masses floating in there. Now that they are in the "jumping bean" stage, I sat there for a minute or two with each egg on the flashlight and waited and watched. Eventually I saw a dark spot that kept coming up to the edge of the shell, then would disappear again on its own without any movement on my part of the egg. This is what some of the ones in the RIW eggs were doing, and I could way more easily see those chicks bouncing to and from the shell. So if the shell is too dark to candle easily... at around day 7, check to see if you have any "coming and going" dark/black spots in the floating mass. And let me know how this theory of mine works out for you!

 

[pbjmaker]

Mine are all light tinted or white this time - won't have to test that theory (I'm kind of glad)

On the other hand I have 3 silkie eggs that are actually due the 31/1st and one of them has developed a row of air bubbles right under the air sac all of a sudden. I have never seen anything like it. The air sac looks like it is stable, so I'm not sure if it could have accidently poked a hole in it or something. It's still moving at this point so I hope it lives. I have horrible luck with silkie eggs.