Setting Eggs 1/19 - Hatching Buddies

[AlleysFarm]

Good luck I had a short power outage today 2 hours out but I put a hot water baggy in the incubator and kept a blanket around it was only in the 80's for twenty minutes while I got the temp back up. Going on candle on Saturday fingers crossed

 

[Larkyn]

Good luck I had a short power outage today

2 hours out but I put a hot water baggy in the incubator and kept a blanket around it was only in the 80's for twenty minutes while I got the temp back up. Going on candle on Saturday fingers crossed

The eggs will most likely be fine. Remember, broody hens do get up to eat and drink!

I went ahead and candled a little yesterday. >_> Two out of my eight definitely have a little embryo developing (Both seramas!!)! Saw some really nice blood vessels. Hopefully, the others just weren't developed enough for me to see; cause two out of eight on non-shipped eggs is terrible. X_x

 

[lauralgirl]

I have a bunch of funky air cells from shipped eggs too... no idea how that will affect things in the end, but some of my detached air cells do seem to have somewhat reattached. They still "move" but don't roll freely, so hopefully they will be OK. My LG bator was not doing a good job of holding temp, so I moved my eggs into a new HB this morning (after monitoring temp in that for the past 24 hrs.). Since I was moving them anyway, I candled too I can clearly see veins in a couple of them, and a dark spot/mass in a couple of them, so there's some life in there, but many of them are too dark to see much.... I'll just keep my fingers crossed! Good luck!

 

[pinky67]

I have a bunch of funky air cells from shipped eggs too... no idea how that will affect things in the end, but some of my detached air cells do seem to have somewhat reattached. They still "move" but don't roll freely, so hopefully they will be OK. My LG bator was not doing a good job of holding temp, so I moved my eggs into a new HB this morning (after monitoring temp in that for the past 24 hrs.). Since I was moving them anyway, I candled too I can clearly see veins in a couple of them, and a dark spot/mass in a couple of them, so there's some life in there, but many of them are too dark to see much.... I'll just keep my fingers crossed! Good luck!

Good luck! I'm on day 5 of hatching shipped eggs...so far 5 of 14 are looking pretty good. Had to toss one last night....rolling air cell, bubbles (?) a crack and no visable development. Haven't candled since day 3...going to wait till day 7 to look again and then start turning. I think I am going to try and hatch them upright in a carton.

 

[AlleysFarm]

I'm hoping for some veining on Saturday but as most have drk brwn shells not expecting to see much.. Wish Saturday would get here already..

 

[lauralgirl]

Is it Saturday yet?!?!?!?!

 

[AlleysFarm]

I'm itching to candle though may just have to break my Saturday only rule.. LOL

 

[texaschickmom]

Good luck! I'm on day 5 of hatching shipped eggs...so far 5 of 14 are looking pretty good. Had to toss one last night....rolling air cell, bubbles (?) a crack and no visable development. Haven't candled since day 3...going to wait till day 7 to look again and then start turning. I think I am going to try and hatch them upright in a carton.

I've had good luck hatching in egg cartons. I figured if they are upright in an egg turner, it makes sense to keep them up right to hatch. I've only had a couple that I took out and layed on their side because the chick pipped about halfway down the egg. Good luck to everyone. I have 2 HB's full right now. Eggs-citing!!!

 

[Larkyn]

Gah. Out of the eight eggs I have, only four are developing. (I have a candling addiction. LOL I was looking at one of my seramas today and it was moving around like crazy! I've never seen them so active early on!) It appears that none of the Japanese bantam eggs I got were fertile. :/ None of them are showing any signs of life at all. If there's nothing on Saturday I'm going contact the breeder... Kinda bummed about it. Pretty excited over the seramas though! All three are developing very well, along with the mixed breed bantam egg the breeder gave me as a freebie.

 

[AlleysFarm]

OK couldn't wait.. LOL ended up candling.. out of 18 eggs, 12 show potential. The white ones are definite clears no growth seen at all. The dark shelled eggs I can definitely see some veins in a few of them others I can just see a change in what the egg looked like from pre-setting. Interesting enough one of the eggs with good veining has a hairline crack that I did not notice on initial candling. It's along the side of the egg as it has good veins I patched it up with some nail polish I'll have to monitor it from now on.. Air cells look right on target so my humidity in the 50's seems to be working out well for this incubator. Not going to candle again till probably day 14th just to recheck on the patched egg and the clears.. So far better success than with the shipped eggs not expecting 100% fertility as it's winter..