Setting Eggs 3/7 Anyone with me!?

[OR4-hmom]

Its day 11 in my first incubator. I'm down to 30 eggs. everyone is growing fast. One baby was doing flips
Its day 4 in my other incubator and my 10 sizzle eggs show lots of veining and one very active embryo. sadly, the 8 GLW eggs aren't showing any development. I cracked one and it wasnt fertile. I'm going to leave the others in for a few days and see what happens

Sorry the GLW's aren't developing. I leave them in until lockdown to act a heatsinks unless I smell something. I've been lucky and only had 1 stinker.

I'm only at 3&5 but I did see veining when I moved them around last night. Not nearly as lucky with the pigeon eggs our pair is sitting on, just little glowing orbs.

 

[jennabug]

It's about day 14 for me (do we count the first day as 1 or 0?), and I think things are going well. There are a few that I've marked to watch because I either don't see any movement, or it looks like there are two embryos. I did a little reading on the two embryo thing and it looks like their survival chances are about 1/1000, if that's really what I'm seeing. Again, this is my first time, so I'm learning as I go.

How's it going for everyone else?

 

[OR4-hmom]

I'll be canceling later today, I need to change the batteries in my flashlight. I'm new at this also but double yolkers are uncommon for most hens. Since they are hard to hatch I hope what you are seeing is only a single chick developing.

 

[jennabug]

Yeah, now that I'm looking at more candling photos, I think it's just one yolk. It's hard to tell what's going on with brown eggs. I sure am excited though.

 

[OR4-hmom]

Looks like 66% still going strong! 6 eggs were clear, 1 blood ring, 1 early quitter (I didn't see any movement anyway). 1 I think I saw movement but couldn't find embryo in another 1 I saw embryo but it wasn't moving.

 

[jennabug]

That's good news! I re-candled when I got home from work and it looks like 3 are no longer moving or growing and 2 more I'm not sure about. 7 look good.

 

[jengro65]

This evening is day 14 for me....looks like my day 7 results were pretty dead on
What I've got developing is:
10 lavender orp
2 BBB orp
4 welsummer
A couple of the eggs have damaged saddle shaped air cell. Do you all think i should lay them on their sides at lock down or put the damaged ones in cartons?? FYI....I'm incubating in a brinsea for the first time.

 

[jennabug]

This is my first hatch too, so I can't give advice. I feel like I've read something about that though, maybe in the articles section.

 

[jengro65]

This is actually my 3rd hatch but the first time using a brinsea incubator. I've been reading that many use cartons with damaged air cells but last year when I tried them I found that 2 of the eggs that didn't pip by day 24, actually DID PIP but on the wrong end of the egg...I didn't see it because of the carton......maybe they wouldn't have hatched anyway???

 

[jennabug]

I re-candled when I got home from work and it looks like 3 are no longer moving or growing and 2 more I'm not sure about. 7 look good.

Well... The 3 that had not been moving continued to not move, so I tried to do an egg autopsy on them. On two of them one side of the chick was bright pink. Temperature spike? Looks like they were about 12/13 days when they died.

The 2 that I'm not sure about are still in the incubator. I'll give them a couple more days.
The 7 that looked good are still looking good. A number of them are very active, which is fun to watch. I've been candling with a high powered flashlight.

How's everyone else doing?
What day counts as day 1 during the incubation period? The day you put them in the incubator? Or is that day zero?