She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[NTBugtraq]

BCM are going to make it even tougher in styrofoam. There is a lot of debate over what is the proper humidity on those eggs just because of the extra pigment layers on the eggs. The posts that make the most sense to me are the ones that say they need an even lower humidity because the shells don't lose moisture as easily as white or light brown eggs. I would say 50% was a little high, even for lighter eggs. I would be very curious for you to follow Amy's advice. When she gets here, you will hear all about "dry incubation". I give her a hard time, but I believe in her when it comes to styrofoam

Well, these eggs are just my 1st gen cross between Red Sex-Link and BCM roo. So I rarely get eggs that are on the BCM scale, and when I do they are no higher than a BCM 4. But as my post to WVduckchick just stated, I can't see through them very well even with an Ova Scope HI.

I did really try to follow Amy's dry incubation advice, although I screwed up by putting water in on day 0 and a little on day 101.

Humidity was as follows on day #'s:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
64% 50% 51% 42% 41% 40% 38% 35% 31% 31% 40% 38% 35 31% 27% 22% 22% 22% 22%

 

[sideWing]

Honestly, that was the one that i expected to be out first. It was the fullest, most developed looking one of all on day 18. The air cell has grown so much these last couple of days, if it survives, it will be a super tiny chick.

And I guess I'll pretend to be blonde. I don't know what that Daisy comment means. Lol
I have no idea...

Tombstone. One of the best westerns of its time.

BCM are going to make it even tougher in styrofoam. There is a lot of debate over what is the proper humidity on those eggs just because of the extra pigment layers on the eggs. The posts that make the most sense to me are the ones that say they need an even lower humidity because the shells don't lose moisture as easily as white or light brown eggs. I would say 50% was a little high, even for lighter eggs. I would be very curious for you to follow Amy's advice. When she gets here, you will hear all about "dry incubation". I give her a hard time, but I believe in her when it comes to styrofoam

I have heard of folks that lightly sand their BCM eggs so that more oxygen makes it in. 400 grit and then spray with a 4 to 1 betadine solution to kill any bacteria. I saw an engineer post that humidity increases oxygen transfer through the egg. But I don't know. I'm no engineer.

Classic. I need to watch this again.

 

[sideWing]

 

[NTBugtraq]

Who said there was nonsense in this thread??...;-] IE is now consuming 1.4Gb of ram...

 

[RubyNala97]

The school music teacher just dropped off a lone chick to me. Can anyone please tell me what kind of chicken this is? I can take any specific pictures you need just let me know.

 

[WVduckchick]

[COLOR=0066CC]WVduckchick[/COLOR], can I ask you a candling question? I have an Ova Scope HI, and my darkest eggs are maybe a BCM 4, but usually much lighter. With that setup, I usually can only see maybe 1/4" - 3/8" beyond the air sack. Have you been able to do better than that? I'm discovering, I think, that I am leaving a lot more infertile eggs in my bator because I cannot well see veining.

I haven't done any really dark eggs. I had one green egg that was very difficult but if you can't see in it, then there's really no way to know to pull it. I've read that you can tell by the "feel" of it in your hand, but I wouldn't trust myself with that. The clear ones will lose a little less weight, but not enough to go by that, in my opinion. (my first pipper right now was the one that lost the least amount of weight)

Try different flashlights. I use a mini-mag lite. Single LED. If you are on desktop, look at the gallery view of pics on this thread, and check out some candling pics.

WV, I am shocked. Me not liking country is one thing, but you haven't seen Tombstone? I'm too disturbed to even slap

Ok you can slap me now. I blame Mike.

 

[scflock]

Who said there was nonsense in this thread??...;-] IE is now consuming 1.4Gb of ram...

Just wait til the next parade

 

[WVduckchick]

The school music teacher just dropped off a lone chick to me. Can anyone please tell me what kind of chicken this is? I can take any specific pictures you need just let me know.

I have no clue except its beautiful!

 

[WalnutHill]

Well, these eggs are just my 1st gen cross between Red Sex-Link and BCM roo. So I rarely get eggs that are on the BCM scale, and when I do they are no higher than a BCM 4. But as my post to WVduckchick just stated, I can't see through them very well even with an Ova Scope HI.

I did really try to follow Amy's dry incubation advice, although I screwed up by putting water in on day 0 and a little on day 101.

Humidity was as follows on day #'s:
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
64% 50% 51% 42% 41% 40% 38% 35% 31% 31% 40% 38% 35 31% 27% 22% 22% 22% 22%

Those numbers are a touch higher than I like to see with my EE up to day 14, which are just as dark as a good colored Marans egg with the brown pigment layered on a blue shell. I leave my candling at just looking for good veining at the air cell and if it's there, I consider it fertile until proven otherwise.

 

[scflock]

The school music teacher just dropped off a lone chick to me. Can anyone please tell me what kind of chicken this is? I can take any specific pictures you need just let me know.

I'm no good at picking birds I don't own, but I will venture a guess. Welsummer? If so, pray it's a girl. They lay eggs as dark as BCM
Legs almost look green like an EE, but the chipmunk stripe isn't as well defined. I have had some, however, that were't striped. If those legs are green, I'm going with EE