Setting first eggs tomorrow - 3/23

[gingerly1983]

Yum. And Good lunch they will be. ..

Lol you beat me to it!

 

[missnu01]

I set 24 mixed eggs on the 23rd in a brinsea Eco 20...I will consider this to be my first time, as my first time didn't go very long as my first eggs I tried were everyone infertile. I have too many roosters spending too much time watching out to stop each other from breeding... So now nobody's getting any... So I bought some eggs locally from a guy with all kinds of hens in with a black copper Maran and a blue copper Maran rooster... Speckled Sussex, buff orpingtons, EEs, olive eggers, barnevelder, just so many different hens it looks like a rainbow inside the incubator. It also looks like a whole lot have veining as of today, so that's good too! It's working this time! Hooray

 

[gingerly1983]

I set 24 mixed eggs on the 23rd in a brinsea Eco 20...I will consider this to be my first time, as my first time didn't go very long as my first eggs I tried were everyone infertile. I have too many roosters spending too much time watching out to stop each other from breeding... So now nobody's getting any... So I bought some eggs locally from a guy with all kinds of hens in with a black copper Maran and a blue copper Maran rooster... Speckled Sussex, buff orpingtons, EEs, olive eggers, barnevelder, just so many different hens it looks like a rainbow inside the incubator. It also looks like a whole lot have veining as of today, so that's good too! It's working this time! Hooray

Yay! Welcome. Do you love your Brinsea so far? It's one of the incubators on my wish list. Lol. Mama's got to work some overtime for that one though!

 

[AQHAchick22]

I'm so tempted to candle some but I'm afraid of what I'll see or not see

 

[Partyfowl]

So now nobody's getting any...

Haha!

What a great combo of chicks you'll have! Do like your brinsea?

 

[Deerling]

I set 24 mixed eggs on the 23rd in a brinsea Eco 20...I will consider this to be my first time, as my first time didn't go very long as my first eggs I tried were everyone infertile. I have too many roosters spending too much time watching out to stop each other from breeding... So now nobody's getting any... So I bought some eggs locally from a guy with all kinds of hens in with a black copper Maran and a blue copper Maran rooster... Speckled Sussex, buff orpingtons, EEs, olive eggers, barnevelder, just so many different hens it looks like a rainbow inside the incubator. It also looks like a whole lot have veining as of today, so that's good too! It's working this time! Hooray

Welcome! It sounds like you have a mix similar to mine All sorts of cool breeds all mixed up in there together. I'm going to take a picture and post it at some point, you should too! It still seems impossible to me! I'm sorry about your last experience, that would be disappointing. The store bought fertile eggs I set I am unsure about, fertility-wise. One had a seam I didn't like the look of so I cracked it to check for fertility and didn't see anything. I didn't want to crack more testing, so I guess we'll just see on day 7.

Yay! Welcome. Do you love your Brinsea so far? It's one of the incubators on my wish list. Lol. Mama's got to work some overtime for that one though!

Oh man, me too! Especially the one that keeps the humidity correct! The only think I thought was odd is that they hold 20. It seems like you're more likely to have 24, you know? But maybe I'm wrong. I was seriously looking at them, but I couldn't justify that much money on an incubator yet. I'll be excited to see how it goes with one, though! How cool.

I'm so tempted to candle some but I'm afraid of what I'll see or not see

I'm nervous to candle, too!

I checked the incubator when I went to bed last night and noticed the humidity was just a few points lower than it had been, but when I woke up this morning it was between 25-30! It was completely dry! Oh man. I added water as quickly as possible and it's gone back up. This is nerve-wracking.

 

[AQHAchick22]

I checked the incubator when I went to bed last night and noticed the humidity was just a few points lower than it had been, but when I woke up this morning it was between 25-30! It was completely dry! Oh man. I added water as quickly as possible and it's gone back up. This is nerve-wracking.

I'm not sure if that matters all too much right now, I thought it was below 25% that you should start to worry. Luckily humidity going down for a bit isn't the end of the world. It is scary though! I let out a huge sigh of relief every time the thermometers are reading correctly.

 

[missnu01]

Yay! Welcome. Do you love your Brinsea so far? It's one of the incubators on my wish list. Lol. Mama's got to work some overtime for that one though!

Well so far it seems to be Doing the job. I wish I could have afforded the advance model, but the Eco will do. I like how hand turning the eggs is so easy...just rock the whole thing backwards or forwards...no turning one egg at a time and all that...

 

[missnu01]

I'm keeping my humidity at around 30% should it be higher?

 

[missnu01]

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Welcome! It sounds like you have a mix similar to mine All sorts of cool breeds all mixed up in there together. I'm going to take a picture and post it at some point, you should too! It still seems impossible to me! I'm sorry about your last experience, that would be disappointing. The store bought fertile eggs I set I am unsure about, fertility-wise. One had a seam I didn't like the look of so I cracked it to check for fertility and didn't see anything. I didn't want to crack more testing, so I guess we'll just see on day 7.
Oh man, me too! Especially the one that keeps the humidity correct! The only think I thought was odd is that they hold 20. It seems like you're more likely to have 24, you know? But maybe I'm wrong. I was seriously looking at them, but I couldn't justify that much money on an incubator yet. I'll be excited to see how it goes with one, though! How cool.
I'm nervous to candle, too! 

I checked the incubator when I went to bed last night and noticed the humidity was just a few points lower than it had been, but when I woke up this morning it was between 25-30! It was completely dry! Oh man. I added water as quickly as possible and it's gone back up. This is nerve-wracking. 

For whatever reason the brinsea eCo 20 holds exactly 24 eggs...it's how many I have in there now. I wonder why it isn't called the Eco 24...


Don't be afraid to candle...the first try I figured I would wait til day 7 to candle, because I figured surely by then I would be able to see something...but nothing...so I thought I was doing it wrong and I started researching it more thoroughly...turns out you can start to see veins by day 3 is in fact something is happening in your eggs...
Today was day 4 and I can see veins in most of the eggs I can see through. I need to check tomorrow and mark the ones that need closer inspection. It's better to candle early and know what's happening, then to wait a week and then find out all your eggs are infertile