Setting eggs tomorrow, anyone want to join?

[blzzrdqueen]

So I am thinking that the dark yolk shadows I was seeing while candling is actually the air cells. If they are then they are looking pretty good. I will post pics tonight.

 

[SA Farm]

Your going to to go blind if you keep doing that...get a hobby already...hehehehe...I often don't candle just for the fun of not knowing.

I know, right? It's not like I don't have other animals to obsess over...3 dogs, a passel of rabbits, a small herd of goats...and yet I still find the time...somehow...lol

 

[jnjmanning]

Temp is coming back up, got 97 at bottom and 101 at top. Whew, hope they are ok. I did candle real quick and could see veins in one of my Polish eggs. One Buff egg there is no air cell at all, not looking good. Air cells on others look great. One of my Cheekys egg is very porous. Never had luck with porous eggs. But I have 2 more. This is a picture of my sweet girl Cheeky.

 

[jnjmanning]

The first is my head Roo, he is a RIR and such a good boy. Not at all aggressive, but very protective of his "girls" especially from hawks. He will call then up and hide them in brush till the threat is gone. The 2nd picture is my Polish, her name is Spot, long story, grandkids...lol She is my one and only Polish left. The other 2 were killed by hawks BEFORE my Roo came to live with us. The final picture is Crazy Cora, my hen who just died. You can see her with the 8 guinea keets I gave her to raise. They were 3 weeks old when she got them. They were ugly but she loved them anyways!

 

[blzzrdqueen]

I found a better flashlight (LED) and candled the D'Uccles again and 3 of the 5 are definitely fertile! I saw a great start to veining. All the other eggs are still too soon to tell.

 

[Mmmatt13]

Huh.. I guess my last post never went through.

Anyways. When you're trying to up the humidity, it's not about the amount, or volume of water, it's about the surface area. Try putting a few jar lids (pickle jar, salsa jar, etc.) with water in and see if that helps.

Your sweet hen that just passed looks just like my Oprah. I've had her for 7 or 8 years and she's the only one left from my original very first batch of baby chicks that I raised. I love her to pieces.

 

[missnu01]

If you aren't seeing air cells wouldn't that mean that the humidity is too high? The air cell is formed as the eggs sort of dry out yes? Seems counter productive to up the humidity if your air cells are too small already.

 

[blzzrdqueen]

If you aren't seeing air cells wouldn't that mean that the humidity is too high? The air cell is formed as the eggs sort of dry out yes? Seems counter productive to up the humidity if your air cells are too small already.

I had no water in the bator to begin with. This is all so confusing. Right now I have a couple folded up damp but not soaked paper towels and a tiny bowl of water...I'm thinking I want my humidity at 30%, that is all I am trying to get to.

 

[Mmmatt13]

I thought someone had said that they were trying to up their humidity, I'm a little late to post because I thought I had already posted where appropriate but I lost where that was and I don't feel like searching.

 

[refamat]

I know, right? It's not like I don't have other animals to obsess over...3 dogs, a passel of rabbits, a small herd of goats...and yet I still find the time...somehow...lol

We have 3 goats (the two does are ready to kid, a horse, 2 dogs, 2 cats, I have no idea how many chickens (mixed flock which free range, Black Australorps, Welsummers, Ameraucanas in their own coops), Bourbon Red turkeys, 2 hens and a tom, (with one each Narragansett and Holland White hens we picked up to add to the flock), two African Geese (and a newly hatched gosling of theirs) and two baby tarantulas.
It's a good thing the tarantulas don't need more than a looking in on daily!