PA UNITE - egg set 2/8-2/10/13 HATCH-A-LONG

[chiques chicks]

Switched from my water heater thermostat to a fancy digital model and just realized it was 1.5 degrees high overnight! See if they survived. Recalibrated to two oral thermometers, see what happens.

 

[msladyhawke]

Switched from my water heater thermostat to a fancy digital model and just realized it was 1.5 degrees high overnight! See if they survived. Recalibrated to two oral thermometers, see what happens.

Oh goodness, crossing fingers that all is ok.

 

[msladyhawke]

I am going to candle tonite. Everyone cross their fingers for me and my shipped eggs.

 

[chiques chicks]

I am going to candle tonite. Everyone cross their fingers for me and my shipped eggs.

I'm doing three same. Hope you have lots of good news!

 

[chiques chicks]

Looks like some masses in there. Throw them back in and see what happens. Ill know more next weekend, and know for sure in about two weeks if I get babies.

 

[msladyhawke]

Looks like some masses in there. Throw them back in and see what happens. Ill know more next weekend, and know for sure in about two weeks if I get babies.

Same here. Think i saw masses, but veining, not so sure. Ugh.

 

[chiques chicks]

Shipped eggs are so hit and miss. And mine came from fl, so I'm sure the weather was no help.

 

[PoultryGirly]

So I candled and marked the air cell of my eggs yesterday (day 7), and 9 out of 14 seem to be growing! One of the eggs has a blood ring and the other 4 just didn't start growing. Some were porous. I have a question: if I candle the egg with the blood ring and then handle my healthy eggs, will the bacteria from the dead egg transfer to the clean eggs? Thanks!

 

[LeBlackbird]

Oh dear! Got a new thermometer/hydrometer today and threw it in with the eggs, realized the old one was 7 degrees off!

I was operating at only 93 degrees for 2 whole days. After throwing in two more non-digitals, I came to realize this horror. Bumped up the temps now, everything's stabilized. Hopefully everything will be ok!! I'd definitely rather have this than realizing the temps were 7 degrees over what they were supposed to be. I think they'll be fine but I'm worried now, everything's shipped biddies...

msladyhawke, Definitely crossing fingers

In the same boat here

ChickenPerson, that's good news! With the whole blood ring thing, I've never had that happen to me before.

Blood rings aren't necessarily a bacterial thing, sometimes it's weak embryos, heat fluctuations, stuff like that. Bacteria usually has smells to go with it

 

[Blarneyeggs]

So I candled and marked the air cell of my eggs yesterday (day 7), and 9 out of 14 seem to be growing! One of the eggs has a blood ring and the other 4 just didn't start growing. Some were porous. I have a question: if I candle the egg with the blood ring and then handle my healthy eggs, will the bacteria from the dead egg transfer to the clean eggs? Thanks!

Wow, I never thought of that!