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[Eggs-otic]

Thanks .... I felt pretty happy that any hatched since I had incubated at about 55% humidity for the first 2 weeks until read it should much lower and then going dry. I think the baby might have still been a little wet, since some sticky liquid leaked out of the egg when it first pipped. The others are doing great ! I have 18 BCM eggs in the incubator running about 37 to 40% humidity and seem to have good air cell lose, so hopefully this will be an easier hatch !

 

[WVduckchick]

After pitching yet another stink bomb ISA Brown this morning, and removing the "Eggbeater Turkey Edition", my incubator finally smells like eggs, not like stink. If I ever lose my sense of smell I will need to stop incubating because the nose knows. I now understand why hens push eggs out of the nest they think are bad and I would too if I had to sit on them. Nasty.

Yuck! So the turkey with the broken up shell didn't make it huh? Are these all eggs that you got from the place you stopped by the other day?

 

[WalnutHill]

All the nasty ISA Browns were from the "Fresh Brown Eggs" farm, but so were the bantams. I guess because she isn't selling those, they are fresher. All 18 of those are developing.

When I have 120 or so eggs in the incubator and only one batch has stinkers (and I've never had an egg smell that bad), you know they have to be old because I have 3 week old eggs in there now and they don't smell like that.

At least Incubator TV is on today, I have three hatched, two zipping, one pipping, all EE from my backyard flock.

 

[BYC910]

Yuck! So the turkey with the broken up shell didn't make it huh? Are these all eggs that you got from the place you stopped by the other day?

so now we know not try to hatch eggbeaters

it was that 1% frog egg that got you. WV I have pictures maybe you can see it hope so. My blub is 8 watts .if they come through it's a bcm maybe a #5 on the color sc





all 3 pictures same egg went the incubator 5/9 look at the dark spot there was a desk lamp 6 feet to the left of where I took the picture

 

[WalnutHill]

This is frustrating as heck. I lost two EE chicks today halfway through zip. One when I was on a conference call, the other when I was making dinner. Five are out and about, only one without assistance. I think only one pipped "normally", the rest went straight for the side. That indicates to me that the air cells were still too small.

Humidity 69-73%, Brinsea SpotCheck says 98.5F, AccuRite says 100F. Pips go good, zips started, but by the time I came back in the membrane looked leathery. No shrink wrap, no sticky chicks, no drippy chicks, just dead chicks. Four more did the same thing, started then paused, but I finished the zip and they finished the job with ease. They are all very active once dry and rested, so they are not lacking in vigor (and they are from my flock, which is healthy). Air cells are nice and dry

This is in the redwood incubator, vent wide open, brand new Celotex sponges for moisture, elevated wire rack with a canvas drop cloth below the rack. Incubation in the cabinet was ambient humidity for nearly the entire incubation period. It's 32.5% right now.

 

[WalnutHill]

And I wrapped up my hatch. As time went on, the pips were weaker, the peeps were stopping, and no more zipping was going on. So I opened the incubator for cleanout and analysis of hatch debris. This is in the little Leahy, with sponges in the corners and vent fully open.

2 eggs had perished before lockdown. I didn't do a candle after day 14, so I expected some loss. That left 19.

8 hatched, only one completely without assistance. The last two I peeled out of shrink wrapped membranes. That left 11.

None of the others had externally pipped and all were perished. Two were wet and gooey, but the rest looked perfect and ready to pip externally but they never did.

So I am still battling the same gremlin that has challenged me all along. Incubator humidity never dropped below an indicated 65% and was most often 75% until cleanout.

I have turkeys set to hatch in just nine days and it is essential that they hatch. I am tempted to get a plastic bin, drill a few ventilation holes in the lid, and put my eggs inside the cabinet in a "box within a box".

 

[BYC910]

sorry to hear that I set 12 and only got 3 I had a lot of trouble with ees last year all I hatched died except 1 and I don't think she is ever going to lay any eggs . is this the same incubator with the bad egg I hope not or was that one close to this one. that would be one thought 2 degrees apart on the temp doesn't seem to be that much .what is really worrying me is you don't know you seem to be the one with most experience .that's a little scary . but I think you'll figure it out. one thing I've been wanting to ask do you wash your eggs before you incubate I read that your supposed to do it but I haven't been doing it. well I did on the shipped eggs that I hatched last week I don't know if helped and I don't know if it hurt was just wondering if anyone really did it. anyway good luck

 

[WalnutHill]

sorry to hear that I set 12 and only got 3 I had a lot of trouble with ees last year all I hatched died except 1 and I don't think she is ever going to lay any eggs . is this the same incubator with the bad egg I hope not or was that one close to this one. that would be one thought 2 degrees apart on the temp doesn't seem to be that much .what is really worrying me is you don't know you seem to be the one with most experience .that's a little scary . but I think you'll figure it out. one thing I've been wanting to ask do you wash your eggs before you incubate I read that your supposed to do it but I haven't been doing it. well I did on the shipped eggs that I hatched last week I don't know if helped and I don't know if it hurt was just wondering if anyone really did it. anyway good luck

I don't wash or sanitize the eggs, I set only reasonably clean ones. I have, at times, wiped a little manure off but that's all.

The eggs had incubated with the stinkers but so had many others. There were no leaks or explosions in the incubator, so I don't think those had anything to do with it.

I am positive that none had pipped when I transferred them from the cabinet to the Leahy, and the Leahy was at temp and humidity. As soon as the sponges were looking dry and the condensation dried behind them, shrink wrapping and dry outer membranes started, even though the humidity was still showing at 65%+.

 

[scflock]

I don't wash or sanitize the eggs, I set only reasonably clean ones. I have, at times, wiped a little manure off but that's all.

The eggs had incubated with the stinkers but so had many others. There were no leaks or explosions in the incubator, so I don't think those had anything to do with it.

I am positive that none had pipped when I transferred them from the cabinet to the Leahy, and the Leahy was at temp and humidity. As soon as the sponges were looking dry and the condensation dried behind them, shrink wrapping and dry outer membranes started, even though the humidity was still showing at 65%+.

I don't wash either, and try to set the cleanest ones. That's easy when it's dry outside, not so much after a rain. I've only incubated EEs one time, and it was my best hatch rate ever. 22/23
I can't believe Amy hasn't posted the 24hr candle

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I don't wash either, and try to set the cleanest ones. That's easy when it's dry outside, not so much after a rain. I've only incubated EEs one time, and it was my best hatch rate ever. 22/23
I can't believe Amy hasn't posted the 24hr candle

LOL. Not much to show at the 24 hour candle...geesh....lol I have noticed a distict darker circle on the yolks of these eggs that I have never noticed on any others. I'm still worried I am making a mistake and it's too soon to use my pullet eggs, even though most are a decent size. I guess we'll find out. Three more hours and I'll be in day 2...lol