10 days left on the countdown update:
I've broken open two eggs since starting with the suspicion they weren't developing, one Swedish Flower and one BLRW. Fortunately I was right. One had had a broken air cell and a broken yolk and there were no signs of development. The other had an in tact air cell but a broken yolk with what looked like a slight bloody ring. I guess that it terminated around day 3. This has allowed me to use the auto turner which Ive set to turn 12 seconds once every 45 minutes. Its pretty loud so for you
Brinsea Mini Advance users that want to keep the incubator in your bedroom (like me) you better either wear earplugs, have a good deal of white noise or be a heavy sleeper. We have a pretty good white noise fan in our bedroom and Ive been able to sleep through it most of the time especially if I wear earplugs. I dont think my husband has woken up to it at all but hes a pretty heavy sleeper. The eggs have had no difficulty turning but I understand that the further along they are the better they will turn.
Ive candled EVERYDAY including today which is probably a bit much and I will likely get chided by the experts but Im of the opinion it will not hurt them unless you are rough with them or your hands are dirty. So far it appears that I have three or four viable embryos. In some of them I can actually see the embryos doing little acrobatics, its SO COOL! Its getting harder now to see because they are getting darker and darker as the days go by but Id say day 8 was the best day to see embryo dancing.
Ive intermittently kept one side of the water pot full because when it has water in it the humidity usually hangs out around 49% which is on the high end of the range. I was concerned that they werent going to loose enough weight especially since Eastern NC tends to be pretty humid. When I let the water pot dry the humidity would drop into the 30s. I weighed them today and most are already at or near a 14% loss according to my very primitive and probably not the most accurate food scale. Ive decided from here on out I will keep one side of the pot full until lookdown when I will fill both sides since I dont want them to loose much more weight.
Here are a few more non exciting pictures:
My Scale:
My Notes:
Today is the first day I noticed that the start date was really 9/13/11 not 8/13/11, haha, maybe I was in denile that it was no longer my birth month, I don't know. Anyway I've edited the original thread to say 9/13/11.
The incubator with the turner and two less eggs:
