Setting duck eggs on Saturday, 8/18 - Anyone wanna join? (Set by next Saturday for chicken eggs)

[Belinda's Funny Farm]

Sorry about the loss Pyxis. Glad to hear you order more eggs though.

I have a question for everyone. I originally set 100 Quail Eggs in my Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance Incubator. I had to double stack them (bottom ones right into the tray and top ones in paper quail carton set directly on top of bottom eggs) to fit them all in, as my bater only holds 60 Quail Eggs. I wasn't too worried about it since they were shipped eggs and from everything I read if you get a 40% hatch you are doing great. Well, I candled the eggs and have 81 still viable. I have 3 more days till lock down. I am not sure if when I candle right before lock down and I still have over 60 eggs if I need to take the excess and put them into something else to hatch or has anybody double stacked them (not in the container) for hatching? I can pull out the babies as soon as they are dry and make more room for the ones that haven't hatched yet.

OR: I do have a 10 gallon aquarium that I could set up to move some of them into for hatching. Problem is I would need to start working on putting it together now so I could check it for several days before I move my eggs into it. Not sure how I will be able to keep up the humidity but I remember seeing posts on here about homemade incubators in aquariums so sure I will be able to figure it out.

I recently hatched some Bob White Quail and when they hatched they were all over the place. Flipping and flopping and moving the other eggs all over bottom of bater. Not sure that would be good and what if one of the eggs on bottom tries to pip and there is another egg on top of it.

Just curious as to what everyone else would do.

Thanks,
Belinda

 

[Habibs Hens]

Sorry about the loss Pyxis. Glad to hear you order more eggs though.

I have a question for everyone. I originally set 100 Quail Eggs in my Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance Incubator. I had to double stack them (bottom ones right into the tray and top ones in paper quail carton set directly on top of bottom eggs) to fit them all in, as my bater only holds 60 Quail Eggs. I wasn't too worried about it since they were shipped eggs and from everything I read if you get a 40% hatch you are doing great. Well, I candled the eggs and have 81 still viable. I have 3 more days till lock down. I am not sure if when I candle right before lock down and I still have over 60 eggs if I need to take the excess and put them into something else to hatch or has anybody double stacked them (not in the container) for hatching? I can pull out the babies as soon as they are dry and make more room for the ones that haven't hatched yet.

OR: I do have a 10 gallon aquarium that I could set up to move some of them into for hatching. Problem is I would need to start working on putting it together now so I could check it for several days before I move my eggs into it. Not sure how I will be able to keep up the humidity but I remember seeing posts on here about homemade incubators in aquariums so sure I will be able to figure it out.

I recently hatched some Bob White Quail and when they hatched they were all over the place. Flipping and flopping and moving the other eggs all over bottom of bater. Not sure that would be good and what if one of the eggs on bottom tries to pip and there is another egg on top of it.

Just curious as to what everyone else would do.

Thanks,
Belinda

when i started reading this post i had a heart attack 100 in a octo20 then i continued to read lol

you will need to move if over the corect amount to fit flat

the eggs need the floor space plus if a bottom one hatches the top one will fall

or worse still the top ones weight stops the other bottom egg from moving and hatching

or even worse still teh initial pip is right above the top egg either sufocating the bottom egg or cracking the top eggs too

 

[Belinda's Funny Farm]

when i started reading this post i had a heart attack 100 in a octo20 then i continued to read lol

you will need to move if over the corect amount to fit flat

the eggs need the floor space plus if a bottom one hatches the top one will fall

or worse still the top ones weight stops the other bottom egg from moving and hatching

or even worse still teh initial pip is right above the top egg either sufocating the bottom egg or cracking the top eggs too

I think you are right. I will get my aquarium set up for some of the eggs or just go get a still air incubator for hatching all the eggs. I don't want to loose any babies to my greediness for setting all of them instead of the 60 I was supposed to set. Thanks for the feedback. I had read on here somewhere that someone was hatching their eggs stacked and I asked them to explain it to me how they did it but never heard back from them. Maybe it didn't work out. I am just glad I have this problem and with shipped eggs. I'm getting excited for hatch day.

 

[Habibs Hens]

I think you are right. I will get my aquarium set up for some of the eggs or just go get a still air incubator for hatching all the eggs. I don't want to loose any babies to my greediness for setting all of them instead of the 60 I was supposed to set. Thanks for the feedback. I had read on here somewhere that someone was hatching their eggs stacked and I asked them to explain it to me how they did it but never heard back from them. Maybe it didn't work out. I am just glad I have this problem and with shipped eggs. I'm getting excited for hatch day.

im sure your hatches will go good and in your posistion i would have done the sam ewith shipped eggs

i have both the octo20 and mini advanced

im currently building a new bator which should hold around 200 eggs

that i may just use as a hatcher

 

[just2rosey]

Quote: Ok, now I am curious (college student in a grammer class, I find this fascinating).

Would poultry people discussing birds find it racist, or is it considered racist when used in a different context? Would it be derogatory to in reference to humans or animals? I certainly would never want to offend in that way, but I never would have imagined it could have that kind of meaning.

 

[just2rosey]

She's a sultan. Well, guys, for no reason known to man, my incubator temp spiked, and stayed there long enough to make the water wiggler read 113 degrees. I know for sure that the eggs from my polish girl are dead, and probably everything else is too, but they're harder to candle so I have to wait till dark to see. My only course of action now is probably to order more Welsh Harlequin eggs and see how I do with round two...I will be taking some of the remaining eggs under my silkie to hatch so I will have a hatch with you guys but I'm really devastated here. I paid over $40 for those Welsh Harlequin eggs, only to have them all have really bad air cells, most have bacterial contamination, and all but three die, and now I probably lost those guys too. The duck eggs I got from my aunt have probably died too, if they were fertile. Not a good day here.

Oh No!

I'm so sorry! Don't give up on them yet. Candle them again before you toss them.

I hope you will be pleasantly surprised. Good luck with the new ones that are coming.

 

[Habibs Hens]

Ok, now I am curious (college student in a grammer class, I find this fascinating).

Would poultry people discussing birds find it racist, or is it considered racist when used in a different context? Would it be derogatory to in reference to humans or animals? I certainly would never want to offend in that way, but I never would have imagined it could have that kind of meaning.

O knew you was not being racist and infact you would not have known but to save any arguments for the future i thought i would give a heads up


Top Knot is refered to what a sikh person wears on his head and its been rendered rasist as it offends sikh people due to the fact it was used in a demeaning and name calling context over the years.

here is a child with the so called top knot

now any one that wanted to be mean would firstly make fun of his topknot rather than anything else and kids being kids that what happens



As the child gets older the topknor stays but then it over wrapped with a full turban

here is a man with a turban

look closely and you will see black fabric under the orange turban

the black is the top knot




BTW im not sikh myself but i am asian so i know about this

 

[Pyxis]

I candled and it looks like two ducks made it!!! Maybe two silkies too. Anyway, I got a Little Giant incubator, an egg turner, and rigged it up to a CPU fan. If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing, right? My homemade bator is gonna become a hatcher, and, provided this thing runs okay for the night at the temp I set, the living eggs will move into it. Then the new eggs will join them, and when it's time for lockdown the 'old' eggs will go back into the homemade incubator for lockdown. At least that's the plan.

 

[Pyxis]

Sorry about the loss Pyxis.  Glad to hear you order more eggs though.  

I have a question for everyone.  I originally set 100 Quail Eggs in my Brinsea Octagon 20 Advance Incubator.  I had to double stack them (bottom ones right into the tray and top ones in paper quail carton set directly on top of bottom eggs) to fit them all in, as my bater only holds 60 Quail Eggs.  I wasn't too worried about it since they were shipped eggs and from everything I read if you get a 40% hatch you are doing great.  Well, I candled the eggs and have 81 still viable.  I have 3 more days till lock down.  I am not sure if when I candle right before lock down and I still have over 60 eggs if I need to take the excess and put them into something else to hatch or has anybody double stacked them (not in the container) for hatching?  I can pull out the babies as soon as they are dry and make more room for the ones that haven't hatched yet.  

OR:  I do have a 10 gallon aquarium that I could set up to move some of them into for hatching.  Problem is I would need to start working on putting it together now so I could check it for several days before I move my eggs into it.  Not sure how I will be able to keep up the humidity but I remember seeing posts on here about homemade incubators in aquariums so sure I will be able to figure it out.  

I recently hatched some Bob White Quail and when they hatched they were all over the place.  Flipping and flopping and moving the other eggs all over bottom of bater.  Not sure that would be good and what if one of the eggs on bottom tries to pip and there is another egg on top of it.  

Just curious as to what everyone else would do.  

Thanks,
Belinda

I would definitely go with the aquarium - they hold heat fairly well and humidity shouldn't be bad - perhaps put a bunch of wet sponges in there? They sell glass lids for aquariums in most fish stores that are specifically designed to keep the humidity in. I myself have one on my hermit crab tank. They work really well - I keep the humidity 80% in there.

 

[bigred7469]

So I had to throw out the one RIR that I thought was bad. cracked it open and it had an eye but thats it nothing that would make you say hay thats looks like a chicken. But on the bright side now 4 for 4 of the farmers market eggs are going nicely. Can't believe this time next week eggs will be in lock down and hoping for fuzzy butts!!!!!