September 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[harmesonfarm]

Day 14 candled and all 12 are still looking good

Even managed to get a brief video of one of them moving a fair bit

This is the air sacs marked day 7 and 14. How are they looking? I was wondering if they are a bit small or if they look OK.



Thanks

yay! what a great video, such a good moment to catch! We saw a little embryo of a few move last night when we candled, but my camera was not cooperating

lol

as for air sacs, they look good to me and I agree that the one in the middle second to the bottom looks a bit small, but i'm guessing that's also probably just due to the angle you have it resting on. I'm not experienced though, first time hatching too.

so excited for your eggs!! what breed were they again?

 

[marlene]

I have never used either. A lot of people sing praise for brinsea but the r-com seems ideal to me and I would have one if I could afford it. I don't think you can go wrong either way. How many eggs are you setting? That may be the deciding factor.

I am setting six eggs. The brinsea is 6 eggs and the rcom is 20. I am thinking of using the rcom as it might be more roomy during hatching.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I am setting six eggs. The brinsea is 6 eggs and the rcom is 20. I am thinking of using the rcom as it might be more roomy during hatching.

Good call! Some people cram as many into the hatcher as possible but I like to have a bit more room, though I don't usually leave the chicks in for 24 hours.

 

[SunHwaKwon]

I candled my chicks and eggs. I am down to seven Sussex eggs. I thought I was down to six then double checked them before tossing. I thought this one was a watery dud but the second look revealed a healthy chick and the air sac is on the side.

That will be interesting if it makes it to hatch.

I also battled my guinea and took her eleven eggs and have her a dozen from the incubator. One incubator egg had died and two I just took from her were bad, so now I'm at 27 total. What a relief; much more tolerable than the original 49.

 

[Maeschak]

Does anyone know the Humidity level that would almost halt weight loss in eggs? I've been dry incubating and thought the ambient humidity was high enough but apparently not as my eggs are losing too much weight. I'm on day 14 and many of my eggs are almost at the weight they should be at 18 days (lockdown). So I'm looking to drastically slow evaporation for the next four days.

Thank you in advance!

 

[SunHwaKwon]

Does anyone know the Humidity level that would almost halt weight loss in eggs? I've been dry incubating and thought the ambient humidity was high enough but apparently not as my eggs are losing too much weight. I'm on day 14 and many of my eggs are almost at the weight they should be at 18 days (lockdown). So I'm looking to drastically slow evaporation for the next four days.

Thank you in advance!

What is your humidity now? Personally, I would just go ahead and up it 5-10%.

 

[ladyargentum]

Very cool video! The only one looking small (to me) is the middle row second from bottom. What's going on bottom right? No air sac?

This is the middle second from bottom:


and this is bottom right (I think the egg position and light didn't show the pencil marks)


My incubator seems to go from 20% (no water) to 50% with just the small tray having water. I have let the tray go dry overnight and put a small container of water in. Ill try to get the humidity around 30-35% until day 18 if I can. It's my first time incubating so still need to work out what works best with it.

Thanks for your thoughts

 

[ladyargentum]

yay! what a great video, such a good moment to catch! We saw a little embryo of a few move last night when we candled, but my camera was not cooperating

lol

as for air sacs, they look good to me and I agree that the one in the middle second to the bottom looks a bit small, but i'm guessing that's also probably just due to the angle you have it resting on. I'm not experienced though, first time hatching too.

so excited for your eggs!! what breed were they again?

Haha yes it is very exciting. I had trouble getting my phone camera to be able to take any usable photos/ video. I found (even at day 7) the photos didn't show what I saw. Just got lucky yesterday with this video.
These are black Australorps

 

[Maeschak]

To be honest I am not sure- the incubater has said the humidity was between 34-45% the whole time and a cheapo hygrometer I got and calibrated said that during the last week it has been close to 50%. I'm in maryland and the humidity has been crazy high this whole time. I put some water in the channels to raise the humidity... Hopefully all is not lost. I just want to slow the weight loss for the next four days before lockdown as much as possible.

 

[Maeschak]

What is your humidity now? Personally, I would just go ahead and up it 5-10%.

Sorry SunHwaKwon - I responded above... Didn't reslize I had to use the quote button to have it show up as responding to you! Don't post much. Tx for the tip!