Setting (Again) April 16th-18th...

[snazzyboots]

I got it on e bay. Holding temp really well

 

[Cynthia12]

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bbburn, what kind of candler..you probably mentioned somewhere...is it a brinsea? You will HAVE to let us know how it works. I know of someone else that ordered a candler, waiting to see how hers works. Hers is a seabring.

I ordered a Incu-bright cool light from Incubator Warehouse. Anything will work better than the flashlight I used on the last hatch. I ordered that and the 9th thermometer....lol....the egg o meter. It just seemed like the right thing to get. Will measure at ground zero....where the egg is.

Both should be here in the next couple of days. I have time as I only set this batch on Sunday night.

And....have a question. Went out this morning at 0430 and had a dead chick in the brooder. They were 7 days old yesterday. I moved them out to the garage into the big brooder in two batches. The bigger ones one day. The last of them yesterday in the early afternoon. Everyone looked okay. Temp in the brooder where they hang out and lay around is 90...they are a week old so that should be good. I know it happens and she was right where they all lay so I wondered if they piled up on her and she could not get away. Some of the chicks....aracanas....are chunkier chicks...not that much bigger, just bigger around. IDK.....always bothers you.

Will report when I get my candler. I liked it because it cups around the egg some and that just made sense to me.

Just saw this..sorry you lost a chick! It's so sad, and you always wonder if it was something that you did wrong..but, it does sound like you had a chick that got buried by the big ones. You can't stay up all night watching them, or stay home. hugs to you..

Am going to look up incu-bright right now. Waiting on your report. fife likes hers a lot..ova..

 

[meepitqueenie]

So me and my newness to hatching.... i want to learn as much as i can this first time around. Put in the bator on the 17th.
I set about 30-31 eggs in the LG bator. I have 3 different colors of jap bantams. btb ( i think i have 2-3 eggs in there) and white/btw i think 4-5 eggs, and the rest are mottled.
so yesterday i took a mini led flashlight and it looked like some were growing.... today i can tell for sure about 9 mottled are growing i can see veins and a little thing that looks like a spider body, and i hope/think one of the btb ones looks the same.

the white ones i dont think are fertile... but will leave them in there for a while until i'm sure. they seem mostly clear but you can kinda see where the yolk would be in the egg. also in one up near the top where the egg sack is i could see another floating bubble... not sure what the heck that is. the white ones are from btw girls that lost there btw roo and i put in with them the white roo that lost his girl. didnt want him to be lonely. but i haven't witnessed them doing the deed... so its a great possibility they haven't bred yet...

so what are you all sposed to see at day 5?

 

[MjChickens]

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glad to have you

 

[ginormous chicken]

bburn: Yes, I will mark. Thanks... I will wait until day 10.

 

[Delmar]

I'm not sure I get the point of waiting until day 10. It seems to me that some of the stuff you are looking for gets harder to see by then. My last hatch I wasn't able to see too much besides the size of the air sacs by then.

 

[latebloomer]

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261876

this has images through the incubation process

i had two hatches of bbs orpingtons and really didn't see too much along the way

 

[bburn]

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This last hatch I candled in the closet with no window....with a bad flashlight. Am looking forward to the candler that should be in the mail any day now. But I could see the dark 'spot' moving around. I could see more than just the air sac for sure. As I candled I marked what I saw....movement or veins or just air sac. Then I candled around day 14 because I had a power outage and wanted to make sure. I had one blood ring early on and then a for sure 'light bulb' right before lockdown.

I have brown eggs....some darker than others. But most I was able to see it. The ones that had ? on them ended up hatching.

I would LOVE to have one of the Brinsea candlers that is almost $60....could not justify buying it but it makes the most sense. It puts the egg completely in the dark and then floods it with light.

 

[lamoka]

Well just finished candling. It was actually harder today to see anything for sure then it was 2 days ago. The Wyandotte eggs are alot easier to see then the Sussex. I have 6 good out of 6 of the GLW, 5out of 6 of the SLW, and as well as I can tell 7 out of 11 of the Speckled Sussex. I only have two eggs that are clear one of them is a Speckled Sussix and the other is the RIR/SS mix. So overall I am pretty happy out of 24 eggs I have 18 that are definately fertile and developing 4 questionables and two that where not fertile. I have to say it was mutch easier to pick out veining when I first candled them, I am hopefull that the ones I could not see very well are developing but my flashlight is just not strong enough to see much detail. The wyandotte eggs the Embryo is very visible and very active.

 

[chena16c]

I couldn't wait and candled mine last night (day 5 for me). The Spitzhauben eggs looked good! Then again, I've never candled a white egg before. Easy peasy. The BLRW were a little tricker to see anything. A few I saw veining, but some I couldn't tell. Can't wait to see what day 14 holds (ooorrrrr maybe day 10).

This is my first time using shipped eggs...though they only came from a couple hours away and took a day in the mail to get here. I'm also going to try a more "dry" hatch version. I have no humidity reader and I think in the past it's been too humid as all I did was follow the directions of "filling the trays".

I really hope this works this time (and I get some pullets). I want both of these breeds so bad!