Setting eggs on 3/7. Anyone else?

[LauriTX]

I just found this thread, but I put 6 eggs in the bator on friday the 7th also. I candled all 6 and they are all developing! I am so excited!!!

 

[SA Farm]

I candled a few of my eggs last night. 1 looked like it had a blood ring in it, the others had veins developing! I don't usually pull the 'duds' until lockdown unless they look like exploders!

 

[slavedriver01]

I candled my questionable ones again last night and removed them. 1 had a blood ring and the rest had no progress when I cracked them. How do they look if they are "exploders"? Just so I know what to watch for! We are down to 37 from 48. But they all look ok. Air sac is growing and they look full-ish.

 

[sonoralinda]

Hi, I'm a newbie at hatching and I put on 20 bantam cochin eggs that were shipped from Oklahoma to Sonora, CA. Fri. morning 3/7. I also put in 4 of my BTW Japanese eggs to see if I could get something to hatch. So is day 1 24 hrs. later, Sat. or day 1 is just the morning you start them?

I had 5 detached air cells and all had weird saddled air cells. I candled at day 5 and pulled 1 clear and 1 blood ring. I left 3 questionables until day 14 I'll decide if they are bad I'll pull them.

I have 4 thermometers and 2 hygrometers. I took the Accurite back to Wal Mart because after calibrating it, it read the same as the one on my Farm Innovators Inc., 62* instead of 75*. But after it was in the inc. for 24 hrs., they were reading 10 degrees differently. I bought a nice one (I thought) online and calibrated it, it read 74* in the salt and water, it is an Ambient. Talk about excited! Well, 24 hrs. later, it is reading 10* lower than the one on the inc.. So what gives?

No 2 of the thermometers reads the same except my aquarium one and the little one on the piece of plastic that came with the inc. don't fluctuate like the others do. Unbelievable!

I am reading about humidity and what others do to incubate and have come to the conclusion that the humidity doesn't matter what you do as long as you watch your air cells and make sure they are growing. Some people keep theirs at 25 or 30% and others at 50% all the way through, both with forced air inc. and the chicks hatch out fine.

It's kind of mind boggling and a person could really get stressed out. I'm so thankful for spell check. LOL!

 

[MEMama3]

Yeah, that's why I tend to buy chicks... No, of course I didn't buy 21 chicks on the weekend...that would be crazy!
I'm still planning to candle on Monday. I added 6 duck eggs last night, so I'll be moving the chicken eggs to my still-air incubator for lockdown. I find it's better for hatching anyway as the forced air, I find, dries out too quickly.

lol

I candled tonight (I know - early for the day 14 candling). I had 1 late quitter and two early quitter, but the other 14 look great. Lots of movement.

 

[iamfivewire]

we had 2 piped this late afternoon & 1 pipped a bit ago - so 3 out of the 15 that made it to lockdown

 

[iamfivewire]

Some of the babies . . . :

 

[sonoralinda]

Awww, cute babies.

 

[AlabamaChick88]

I am so behind on updates!

OK! So, my hatch that I was waiting on to finish before I set these eggs was my first ever hatch with an incubator. I have a LG still air incubator. I used the thermometer that came with it (because as newbies we didnt know any better) and did not get a hygrometer until lock down. Up until then we had water in every channel in the bator.
Of 7 set eggs, 6 hatched into perfect chicks. The 7th I eggtopsied because I thought it was dead. Wellll.... I accidentally commited guinea keet homicide. I didnt realize my guineas were laying yet, and although I had noticed the egg was different than the others, just never considered it was a guinea egg. Guineas of course have a 31 day incubation... little guinea was perfectly growing and would have hatched just fine had I left it alone.
BUT! A "perfect" hatch was definitely a wonderful start to our hatching adventure!

So, on to this set!
I set 10 Speckled Susses eggs that were shipped from South Carolina, and 12 yard eggs for a friend.
Candled last night (day 11 for me, we didnt get the eggs set until Saturday the 8th) and out of my shipped eggs I had 2 early quitters and 2 blood rings. So 6 doing perfect at this point!
Out of my friends 12 yard eggs, she had 1 early quitter, and 1 that didnt appear fertilized.

Grand total of 16 eggs that appear to be doing great so far!! Since we had such great beginners luck with our first hatch, we arent changing a thing other than my shipped eggs were set in the carton to help reset the detached air cells.

Hope everyone else is also doing awesome!

 

[hockeydad6791]

Seems to be going good I candled yesterday (day 15). Air cells look good movement in all 14 eggs. A few seem to be moving in the bator on their own today. 2 more days till lock down!!!! The wife and I are so nervous. Got our fingers crossed.