Setting eggs, anyone want to join me? Hatch-Along

[farmer boy]

i guess i'll join you guys i am on day 5 with a broody hen only 3 eggs though shes only a bantam first time hatching in winter i live in canada so i hope the babys will be fine

 

[Texasmja]

Ok I have a question, one of my eggs one that would be on day 9 looks odd I can no longer see the embryo due to veins and a "black mass" forming around the entire egg. Is this normal? ( Its my first time hatching and candling eggs)

Look at these pictures and see if any are what your seeing.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation

 

[DURR]

Thank you for that texasmja! It was a real help! It seems to look like around day 12 to 13 but I didn't think I put it in that early! Also since I have diffrent levels of development in most of my eggs due to eggs being put in at diffrent times, would that interfer with my other eggs?

 

[Texasmja]

Thank you for that texasmja! It was a real help! It seems to look like around day 12 to 13 but I didn't think I put it in that early! Also since I have diffrent levels of development in most of my eggs due to eggs being put in at diffrent times, would that interfer with my other eggs?

Do you have another incubator to hatch in? If you set eggs on different days, they will hatch on different days...

I set eggs on the 6th and 7th, so when I reach day 18, I will remove the eggs set on the 6th and hatch them in another incubator. Because they will go into lock-down and hatch sooner than the eggs set on the 7th.

 

[DURR]

No I don't its the only one I have. The only reason I've set eggs on diff days is because I only have two hens laying. :/ is there a way that I can hatch and still incubate?

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

No I don't its the only one I have. The only reason I've set eggs on diff days is because I only have two hens laying.

is there a way that I can hatch and still incubate?

I don't have an extra bator either, and did the same thing. I set 7 eggs on the 9th, 1 yesterday and 1 more today. I'm really hoping that since the last egg I put in is only a little more than a full day behind that it'll be ok. I'm also trying hatching in cartons this time. When I've incubated before I just laid them on the wire, and then when the first chicks hatched they were kicking the other eggs all over the place. It's also made it much easier to turn them without fear of dropping them (which I seem to to do every. single. time

). Has anyone else used cartons while incubating? I cut holes in the bottom so air could flow thru. Goodness me I hope something hatches!!!!!!!!!
Nikki

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

I don't have an extra bator either, and did the same thing. I set 7 eggs on the 9th, 1 yesterday and 1 more today. I'm really hoping that since the last egg I put in is only a little more than a full day behind that it'll be ok. I'm also trying hatching in cartons this time. When I've incubated before I just laid them on the wire, and then when the first chicks hatched they were kicking the other eggs all over the place. It's also made it much easier to turn them without fear of dropping them (which I seem to to do every. single. time

). Has anyone else used cartons while incubating? I cut holes in the bottom so air could flow thru. Goodness me I hope something hatches!!!!!!!!!
Nikki

I use cartons when I hatch mine. I cut the carton down a little and make a hole in the bottom. I just find it easier to turn them that way. When lock down comes I move mine out of the cartons and lay them dowm on some paper towels.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

I use cartons when I hatch mine. I cut the carton down a little and make a hole in the bottom. I just find it easier to turn them that way. When lock down comes I move mine out of the cartons and lay them dowm on some paper towels.

Is there any particular reason you take them out of the cartons before lockdown? I was going to just leave them in the cartons the whole way thru so that the newly hatched chicks can't go bowling with the ones who are still working on getting out. Plus, I'm kind of hoping it might make clean up a tad easier too. I had way more eggs the last time I incubated, and the mess after hatching was horrendous (plus my incubator is styrofoam, so I can't do any kind of scrubbing on it). Just curious and trying to figure out what might work a little better.....
Nikki

 

[TweetyNPetey]

I set my eggs on the 7th. They will go into lockdown on the 17th. Because i heard Serama eggs take a little less time to hatch.

 

[TAMMACLEAN]

 Is there any particular reason you take them out of the cartons before lockdown? I was going to just leave them in the cartons the whole way thru so that the newly hatched chicks can't go bowling with the ones who are still working on getting out. Plus, I'm kind of hoping it might make clean up a tad easier too. I had way more eggs the last time I incubated, and the mess after hatching was horrendous (plus my incubator is styrofoam, so I can't do any kind of scrubbing on it). Just curious and trying to figure out what might work a little better.....
Nikki

Nope. No reason. I've hatched chicks with cartons, small little cups cut down low, and without. It is easier cleanup when they have something to catch the egg shell.