I was determined NOT to mess with mine this time. I have it set and it has held steady at 99.5 since last Sunday night. I am not standing on top of it like I did with the last hatch and also it is in the big bathroom and there are no drafts and no one is here to go in there.....all that I think is helping me.
Just came back from picking up the mail and getting my egg-o-meter and my incubright candler. I got an egg carton out and filled it with eggs from the incubator and candled all from the top where they were sitting in the egg carton. ONE egg looks like maybe, maybe it is not gonna go the distance. I have put a question mark on it and will candle again next weekend....just that one....and not again until lock down. I am at day 9 today. So, 40 are looking good now.
It makes a huge difference on the flashlight. I have one of those max ones from Lowes...it did me no good and is hardly bright enough for me to use when I put the chickens to bed at night to make sure all are on the roost. I also have three different little LED flashlights. They did not do it for me either. This candler is nothing but a LED flash light....but man, is it bright!! Could see the veins clearly in all the eggs including my darkest brown ones I had trouble with last hatch. AND the blue ones that I could not see in at all I could clearly see veins. So, for me, it was worth the $10 for another flash light!!
The egg-o-meter....that makes 9 thermometers....I have laughed at myself and have been very grateful that DH is still out of town working! I have an LG and still have the one of the two thermometers that I am using that came with it.....this one seems really close to the aquarium thermometers that I have counted on. Looking forward to using the egg-o-meter and seeing what it shows.
Now, if one of the eggs will quit on me I will have a place to put it! Good luck to everyone on their hatches this time!! I am excited. My chicks are doing really good and it is amazing how quickly they grow. Now....to figure out the roosters and find someone to take them!
****and, now to get the small corner coop ready to transfer my Dark Cornish into it who has gone broody with the same hatch date as the incubated eggs! I was shocked when it dawned on me she was still in the nest after three days...finally went out after dark and did a head count and checked the nest....and there she was and there she still is. I have to go out and secure the corner and make sure it is going to work for her and make her nest. Tonight after bedtime I am going to go out....with some friends to help and transfer her....will candle her eggs as I remove them from the nest. If they are good I will take them to her new nest.....I might swipe a couple out of the incubator since they are on the same schedule and put them under her also.....wish me luck and yes, I have gloves!
