Setting today who's with me?!?

[18Peeps]

Candled on Day 10 and culled 6 eggs with blood rings and early death, or just yolk. Have 8 left with 5 being movers/good veins, 1 very porous, but can just barely see veins and 1 pretty sure is done, but shell is too dark to be sure. So really I am down to maybe 6 out of the original 15 shipped eggs. Temps and humdity have been steady. Half way to something hatching...I hope. Loved the candling pics. I have to figure out how to add pictures on this site.

Is this a computer or an incubator in the pic????

In the pictures from the link I posted? If that is what you are asking about, there are a couple that have the incubator in the picture and you can see where I have taped the cord down so we don't trip over it. It is a styrafoam incubator we buit ourselves. It does a really great job and keeps relatively even temperatures.

 

[18Peeps]

So all my eggs are showing some good signs!

There are still a couple I'm questioning tho. But so far seeing good results

That's great!

 

[18Peeps]

Yeah!!!!! Nice to hear others are going to have a great hatch. I am planning to get more eggs after the Memorial Day weekend, won't be as many as 49 eggs, maybe just 2 dozens and hoping for at least 4 chicks. I wonder why some just stop during the development.

You should get a few more out of 2 dozen

, but then, shipped eggs are such a gamble. What kind of incubator are you using?

 

[ajneal30]

I candled yesterday and had a lot more fertile eggs than I thought. There were nine that I thought had gotten too cold but are developing nicely. Out of 46 eggs between the incubator and the broody, 10 were not fertile and the rest seem to be doing very well. I might have figured this whole incubation thing out!

 

[tumiyum]

You should get a few more out of 2 dozen , but then, shipped eggs are such a gamble.  What kind of incubator are you using?

Home-made styrofoam. So far the temp and humidity have been steady.

 

[tumiyum]

Is it ok to leave my non-developing yolker eggs in the incubator? I am going to take out the ones with the blood ring, but I don't the leave the last surviving egg in the incubator alone.

 

[18Peeps]

Home-made styrofoam. So far the temp and humidity have been steady.

Nice! That's what we did...home-made Styrofoam. It's really great.

 

[18Peeps]

Is it ok to leave my non-developing yolker eggs in the incubator? I am going to take out the ones with the blood ring, but I don't the leave the last surviving egg in the incubator alone.

If you are certain it is not developing it is safer to remove it. The lonely egg will be fine by itself. When the chick hatches it might need a friend...or it might just become the friendliest chicken you have ever had...

 

[18Peeps]

I candled yesterday and had a lot more fertile eggs than I thought. There were nine that I thought had gotten too cold but are developing nicely. Out of 46 eggs between the incubator and the broody, 10 were not fertile and the rest seem to be doing very well. I might have figured this whole incubation thing out!

You are going to have little fuzzy butts everywhere!

 

[VannahRAe]

Just 12 more days!! I'm so excited. I tried not getting my hopes up to much since I'm still a beginner but I think that was just impossible