Set 14 eggs tonight

[chloezoebob101]

do bantam eggs only take 18 days?? bc that is what I'm hatching..

 

[mlm Mike]

do bantam eggs only take 18 days?? bc that is what I'm hatching..

No, bantams take 21 days, unless they are Seremas.

 

[chloezoebob101]

ok good bc i was gonna say that I'm not ready for it too be that early bc i have big eggs and small eggs and then lockdown would be different...

 

[snooptwomey]

I'm ready!! i think... not even sure if they are fertilized

we will figure that out when they hatch!

You should candle the eggs once they are close to a week in the incubator and get the ones out that didnt start developing. i was able to cut my first batch in half at first candling. its addicting though, just to warn you, lol. My first hatch just ended yesterday with me removing the last egg that should have hatched that didnt, and I ALREADY have 14 eggs in the incubator lol.

 

[chloezoebob101]

i don't even know how to candle!!!! lol. and i don't have a candler!!!

does it hurt to wait?

 

[snooptwomey]

if you have a flashlight or a lamp you have a candler. i used an empty oatmeal cardboard can that i mounted a socket off an old lamp, mounted the socket in the lid after covering lid inside with dark construction paper, then stuck lid back on with socket mounted to where bulb is inside oatmeal can. then poked a hole a little smaller than half an inch in bottom of oatmeal can and its done. been using a 100 watt bulb. i place the egg to be candled over the hole i made in bottom, turn lamp on and the light all goes thru the hole i made and then into the egg. works pretty good, took like ten min to make. i hear a good mag light works fine. use toilet paper roll tube or paper towel roll tube , and mount flashlight to shine through the tube, place egg over opening of roll at opposite end as light source.

 

[snooptwomey]

and it could hurt to wait, i have heard of bad eggs exploding half way thru incubation from rotting inside and it damaging other good eggs

 

[chadr7850]

It's easy to candle it's just throwing the bad ones out because you think there ok. If you have a flash on a phone that works. Also you can put a toilet paper roll over the end and candle them that way. Look it up. I'm so eggsited for this hatch maybe I'll get more than one this time! That's my record for the 4 hatches I have done.

 

[chloezoebob101]

oh good ideas! and what a good record!! i hope i have more than that hatch though!

 

[snooptwomey]

It's easy to candle it's just throwing the bad ones out because you think there ok. If you have a flash on a phone that works. Also you can put a toilet paper roll over the end and candle them that way. Look it up. I'm so eggsited for this hatch maybe I'll get more than one this time! That's my record for the 4 hatches I have done.

what kind of incubator you run? temps and humidity stay good? what do you run humidity at for first 18 days?