setting eggs tonight!! anyone else?

[LaynaDon95]

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=bloo...art=0&ndsp=39&ved=1t:429,r:15,s:0&tx=57&ty=77

That's what my blood ring egg looked like.

As far as movement, sometimes mine move, sometimes they don't. I'm not sure about the egg is the video. One of mine that is supposed to hatch on Saturday looks kind of like that but I think it's a blood spot.

 

[CALI CHICK]

Hi guys, glad to see some company.

I am heartsick right now.

Yesterday I put my shipped eggs in cartons because it looks like the air cells are floating everywhere. I thought this would give them a better chance of staying up at the big end where they belong. Anyway, I set one side of the cartons up (to tip a little) and when I put the lid back on the heater box thingy must have pushed down on one of the eggs. I found some cracks in one and read that it needs to be removed. The bittersweet thing about this is that when I carefully peeled off the chips and examined it in a bowl...it was developing beautifully. I could see the little red veins branching away from the tiny heart and developing embryo.

I felt like Dr. Death or a chick abortionist. I guess I just have to learn from this. I feel the same way I did when my dog crawled under the chicken wire to play with one of our silkies. The dog killed it and it was MY fault because I didn't put her on her chain.

Well LaynaDon, I know at least one was developing so there are probably others. I candled 5 of them, but most of them still have question marks. Even the cracked one would have gotten a question mark because I couldn't see the fine veins when I candled it first - but it was developing! I will candle again this afternoon and evening. I'm just doing 5 or 6 at a time so the temps stay consistant in the bator.

 

[Corg33]

On Day 10 here. Candled this morning, and I think we may have gone from 8 to 7 viable.
We only saw movement in one egg, but maybe they were napping

Is a blood ring something you can see from the outside, or only inside the egg when it's opened?

One egg looks different from both the clear and the others. What do you think?

I dropped one on the way to the closet to candle, but it was not fertile, and had been listed as a dud on Day 6.

You can see blood rings from the outside I posted a pic of one in this thread. I am not sure about your egg. being so porous its hard to tell. Good luck with the others!

Hi guys, glad to see some company.

I am heartsick right now.

Yesterday I put my shipped eggs in cartons because it looks like the air cells are floating everywhere. I thought this would give them a better chance of staying up at the big end where they belong. Anyway, I set one side of the cartons up (to tip a little) and when I put the lid back on the heater box thingy must have pushed down on one of the eggs. I found some cracks in one and read that it needs to be removed. The bittersweet thing about this is that when I carefully peeled off the chips and examined it in a bowl...it was developing beautifully. I could see the little red veins branching away from the tiny heart and developing embryo.

I felt like Dr. Death or a chick abortionist. I guess I just have to learn from this. I feel the same way I did when my dog crawled under the chicken wire to play with one of our silkies. The dog killed it and it was MY fault because I didn't put her on her chain.

Well LaynaDon, I know at least one was developing so there are probably others. I candled 5 of them, but most of them still have question marks. Even the cracked one would have gotten a question mark because I couldn't see the fine veins when I candled it first - but it was developing! I will candle again this afternoon and evening. I'm just doing 5 or 6 at a time so the temps stay consistant in the bator.

You might have been able to seal the crack with some candle wax as long its membrane was not broke and it was not oozing. But at least you know stuff is happening in your eggs! I have found with my shipped eggs that the embryos are more in the middle and I cant see them good. With my local eggs it seemed all the embryos were on the side of the shell. I candled last night and saw movement in all 15 so im happy.

 

[LaynaDon95]

Hi guys, glad to see some company.

I am heartsick right now.

Yesterday I put my shipped eggs in cartons because it looks like the air cells are floating everywhere. I thought this would give them a better chance of staying up at the big end where they belong. Anyway, I set one side of the cartons up (to tip a little) and when I put the lid back on the heater box thingy must have pushed down on one of the eggs. I found some cracks in one and read that it needs to be removed. The bittersweet thing about this is that when I carefully peeled off the chips and examined it in a bowl...it was developing beautifully. I could see the little red veins branching away from the tiny heart and developing embryo.

I felt like Dr. Death or a chick abortionist. I guess I just have to learn from this. I feel the same way I did when my dog crawled under the chicken wire to play with one of our silkies. The dog killed it and it was MY fault because I didn't put her on her chain.

Well LaynaDon, I know at least one was developing so there are probably others. I candled 5 of them, but most of them still have question marks. Even the cracked one would have gotten a question mark because I couldn't see the fine veins when I candled it first - but it was developing! I will candle again this afternoon and evening. I'm just doing 5 or 6 at a time so the temps stay consistant in the bator.

I'm so sorry. That's exactly how I felt when I dropped one the other day. It still makes me a little depressed just thinking about it. Life is so beautiful isn't it? Even a developing baby chicken seems so precious. It sucks when our hard work seems destroyed, especially if that work was to assist a life into being! I'm glad your eggs are growing and I look forward to pics of all your little babies.

 

[CALI CHICK]

Corg, that's great that you have 15 babies on the way.

Both membranes seemed damaged. I could see right in the egg in two tiny holes -like the size a toothpick would make-plus several cracks around the holes. When I peeled the shell off I could see that the inner membrane had begun drying and crinkling. The air cell was actually intact for this one. PLEASE DON'T TELL ME I COULD HAVE SAVED IT. I sure hope it wasn't the only developing egg. I didn't realize that silkies laid brown eggs. I thought it would be easy to candle them because I thought they would be white. At least I kind of know what to look for in a fertilized egg now. I candled it first before opening it up and might be able to change some of my (?) questionables to (V) Veining.

 

[cowchick11]

Cali Chick,
All of my eggs are from our farm. 5 green Ameracauna from our hens and rooster (feedstore) and 17 light brown from my flock of 5 SQ LF Black Orpingtons. I did not collect any other eggs from my mom's mixed flock (the feed store birds) as our other hens are other breeds.

However if my Black Orpington roo is not doing his job when I try this again I may be shipping eggs in (I think he was limping when I started to collect eggs so my give him an out this time). I am excited to attend a swap in OR the first part of May and have requested hatching eggs for SQ BBS LF Orps. This is my practice batch (unless it turns out better that 60%) because I'm practicing for that swap in May! Three people are planning to bring BBS SQ LF Orp eggs.

I really want to recandle tonight but I'm so tired and after the dropped egg stories

I think that yes, I better wait until tomorrow. My system only took my about 20 min. the other day to candle all 22 eggs. I found that I used less time just taking the lid off and candling all at once, besides that, they only dropped about 6 degrees in that 20 minutes!

I just made a list 1-22 with room to add notes, then made three columns one for day 7, one for day 18 and one for another time. As I candled my brother was good enough to write down what I told him. Plus he got to see veins and stuff up close but no blood, he doesn't do blood.

Hope your son is well along with the rest of your family! I like all the sharing about incubators, I'm also on a LG incubator thread to get some more info on tweaking to help make them more reliable.

 

[CALI CHICK]

Hey Cowchick

,
My son is my candling buddy (like your brother). I made him help me this morning at 7 am, which he wasn't too thrilled about. He is in charge of turning the room light on & off (between eggs) and recording either a (D) for development or (?) if unsure. Poor little guy has dyslexia and was making b's instead of D's, so I had to review capital D for him. He'll get it right eventually-He's a smart boy, but just learns differently than the average kid.

I am just candling 5 or 6 eggs at a time with the lid leaning on the side of the bator. We lose about 8 or 9 degrees in 5 minutes, but it heats back up in about 20 minutes. This little cooling won't hurt the eggs and my Brower instructions actually recommend cooling the eggs about 10 minutes per day after week 1. I'm only on Day 5 and normal turning is enough for cooling the first week.

I enjoy reading your updates. Incubating sure has it's ups and downs, but the reward is so sweet.

 

[hdowden]

my 11 are due to hatch on feb. 11th

 

[CALI CHICK]

my 11 are due to hatch on feb. 11th

Yeah!

11 new babies!

Several people on this thread have due dates real close to you. My hatch date is February 17,,,almost a week after y'all.

I hope you guys will stay with me and be my guides and encouragers!

 

[CALI CHICK]

I am happy to announce after candling my 15 eggs on Day 5:

• Veins and little spider embryos in 10 eggs
• Possibly clear/infertile....1 egg
• Possible blood rings.......2 eggs
• Possible stale or stopped:2 eggs

Now I will refrain from candling until day 7. Hopefully some of the questionable eggs will prove to be little embryos too. Overall, I'm just a little excited!