Setting the week of August 22 (or so... ) Everyone join!! You know you want to!

[chicksooner]

Dark blob... ? Well, everyone loses at least a few !! what day are you on ? In my eggs I can only see a few veins if I shine the light through the top because so much mass is taken up inside of the egg. Yolk, the chick, the veins and everything between. As for the healthy egg with the odd air sac, maybe you could try hatching him/her yourself ?

sorry forgot to add that I am on day 8. I need to read up on helping them hatch. Not sure I am ready to take that on. It is one thing if it dies naturally but a whole other thing if I killed it.

 

[DustinT]

Added 21 eggs today!

I have just enough room to keep the 3 different clutchs seperated. So now I'm on day 13,6 and 1.

 

[wahmommy]

Day 7. Used an old slide projector from the 40s to candle the eggs (Ameraucana and Marans). Unfortunately not looking very good. A few clears, about 30% I can't tell either way, about 20% can ID veins and maybe a cloudy area but nothing that looks like what I've seen on YouTube for day 7 candling..and finally one I could actually ID as developing perfectly, with the little chick the veins all of it, and it was my favorite Ameraucana egg (the bluest one)! BUT

...it has a fully detached air cell.

 

[DustinT]

Putting together a new incubator. Hope to have everything worked out in time for lockdown. I will have to do a test fit after this hatch, but I think I can fit 2 little giant egg turners in here. I'm using a food dehydrater for the heat source, but even with the temp turned down to the lowest setting (90F) it's still reading 102.3. So I'm going to get a hot water heater thermostat to wire in tomm. That should solve that problem. Oh this is a forced air set up, which I like better than the still air. After this hatch I will modify the hovabator with a computer fan.
Lights off.

Lights on

 

[DustinT]

Sorry to hear that wahmommy. Hope everything turns out ok.

 

[chichichickapea]

i forgot to mention what i am talking about... Roxanne asked about my lemon cuckoo eggs...lol

Try ordering some from Richard Jordan at Jordan Farms. He has beautiful lemon cuckoo orpingtons. I have 4 that I got from him and they are absolutely gorgeous!!! My eggs that are incubating now are from him.....I have 5 cream legbar and 2 isbar.....I only had room for 7....he had sent me 2 extras (2 more isbars) and I gave them to a friend who has a home made incubator...her last hatch was 6 out of 8.

 

[Drover]

Im having a bit of trouble with my incubator. I put 9 of my eggs in yesterday, and I had the temp stabalized at 99.5 for a few days before. I obviously expected the temp to go down after I put the eggs in, and I know im not sopposed to fiddle with the temp until after the first 24 hours. Then, when I checked on the bator 1/2 hour later, the temp was up to 101.5! This scared me alot, because i paid quite a bit for those eggs, and I brought down the temp and it settled at about 98 degrees for the rest of the day. This morning it was still at 98 degrees, and I am slowly getting it up to 99.5. Will my eggs be hurt at all? I wouldn't think so, but I really dont want to hurt them.

 

[Drover]

Putting together a new incubator. Hope to have everything worked out in time for lockdown. I will have to do a test fit after this hatch, but I think I can fit 2 little giant egg turners in here. I'm using a food dehydrater for the heat source, but even with the temp turned down to the lowest setting (90F) it's still reading 102.3. So I'm going to get a hot water heater thermostat to wire in tomm. That should solve that problem. Oh this is a forced air set up, which I like better than the still air. After this hatch I will modify the hovabator with a computer fan.
Lights off.

Lights on

That is a really good Idea! Ive been trying to build an incubator with stuff I have around the house all year, and never thought of this! Mind if I steal your idea?

 

[wahmommy]

Day 8

So after Day 7 candling yesterday, here's where my incubation stands:

Out of 25 eggs (12 local BCMarans and 13 shipped Ameraucanas) I have:

7 not developing or quit very early. Of those, three were the only odd size/shaped ones-2 pullet eggs and one was bullet shaped egg. I will leave them in til day 14 just to be sure.
5 have veining and some kind of mass (but I could only see one baby in there, in the one with the detached air cell) I did not see movement in any of them.
11 of them I can't tell and will have to wait til day 14 when I weigh and candle again.

Strangely enough, the Ameraucana eggs seem to be doing better than the Marans. 5 of the Marans eggs look like they aren't developing at all, and only 2 of the Ameraucanas. However it has been really hot here in SoCal so maybe that affected fertility. Also the air cells looked really good in all of them except the one which was detached.

Will update this on day 14. I'm not sure what to do about the detached air cell in the one egg. I think I'm going to just leave it be in the turner, not weigh or candle it again until day 18. I hope I didn't hurt it when I candled it...

 

[what did I do]

DustinT, love your fridgabator. Keep us posted on how it works.