Silky hatch-along and OdoBan on eggs experiment

[2ndTink]

I think Y'all have me convinced that chicken match with silkies is like Calculus III compared to high school algebra.

I can say, you are right!

 

[Debbie292d]

I plugged in the turner on the NR360 so the shipped eggs are dancing!

It's hard to believe they've been in there 3 days already.

I peeked in at the Odoban eggs and they look normal. I don't know what I expected but if they start turning black or green, I think we got a problem lol. We'll know at candling time if they're hanging in there!

 

[2ndTink]

I plugged in the turner on the NR360 so the shipped eggs are dancing!

It's hard to believe they've been in there 3 days already.

I peeked in at the Odoban eggs and they look normal. I don't know what I expected but if they start turning black or green, I think we got a problem lol. We'll know at candling time if they're hanging in there!

Yay, the eggies get to spin!

Do you think this egg here is flowing from Odoban?

I think they will be fine.

 

[2ndTink]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210113180605.htm

Here's an article about using pulsed UV light to sanitize hatching eggs, I was wondering if a UV lamp would be sufficient, still looking, but this article caught my eye. I doubt there are pulsed UV units available for home use I know there's a plant in PA that has a unit, I wonder if they'd let me roadtrip on over there and run some eggs through their machine?

 

[Birdsonghill]

While I was doing the first hatch ever, we had a 45 minute power outage while I was asleep, and only learnt about it way later. I don't know if it impacted the hatch rate, but I assume not, since no embryos perished the first few days after the event

I have frequent power interruptions usually just a few minutes, usually less than 30 minutes and occurring during incubations too. Not a problem if the duration is not too long evidently.

 

[2ndTink]

https://www.wattagnet.com/poultry-f...eroxide-uv-light-could-improve-egg-sanitation

Here's a mixed peroxide and UV method. I had never thought of hatcheries sanitizing eggs before, but it totally makes sense.

 

[Debbie292d]

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/210113180605.htm

Here's an article about using pulsed UV light to sanitize hatching eggs, I was wondering if a UV lamp would be sufficient, still looking, but this article caught my eye. I doubt there are pulsed UV units available for home use I know there's a plant in PA that has a unit, I wonder if they'd let me roadtrip on over there and run some eggs through their machine?

They make those for furnaces too, to sanitize the air circulating in a home, but it doesn't kill viruses to my knowledge.

I had read up on a lot of this stuff a few weeks ago and think those UV lights for eggs would successfully sterilize them, so no germs, but didn't read where it was killing any viruses. Herpes is a tough one too. They have got to figure out a way to get rid of this or come up with something like Corid is to coccidiosis.

 

[Debbie292d]

@Birdsonghill there's 3 eggs left with nobody's name on them if you want to root for one!

 

[Antiocheggers]

I bet that'd be really handy when you're hatching even two different breeds when the chicks look nearly identical.

In the NR360 no way to separate them so I'm using mesh bags at lockdown. I'm DNA testing a few of these and want to keep the eggshell and chick together until I can put kiddy marker colors on their heads and the egg.

This pick shows a bunch of eggs, but I'll just have 1 in each. They stretch out way more than they show. I will most likely be standing right there so can get them out of that as soon as they dry.

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What ? Explain this why are they in the mesh bag? I'm reading through all of these feeds and learning alot. What is Lockdown? Not yet convinced I should get into hatching chicks. Any good books you can recommend?
All of you make it sound like it's very rewarding but at the same time alot of work. I've never done any hatching so as for now I'm living vicariously through each of you. Keep up the good work and hatch on! Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank

 

[Debbie292d]

What ? Explain this why are they in the mesh bag? I'm reading through all of these feeds and learning alot. What is Lockdown? Not yet convinced I should get into hatching chicks. Any good books you can recommend?
All of you make it sound like it's very rewarding but at the same time alot of work. I've never done any hatching so as for now I'm living vicariously through each of you. Keep up the good work and hatch on! Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank

They aren't in those bags yet. Lockdown, for most of us, is considered to be the last three days before hatch day. At that point, we remove or unplug the auto turning, and under no circumstances open the incubator. Early bird eggs could pip so it's to protect them just in case though I've never had one more than 1 day early.

Because silkies can't be sexed until they're around 5 months old, I want to keep 1 buff rooster and 1 or 2 buff hens, and sell the rest of the buffs. If I just grab 3 chicks, odds are I'd pick three roosters lol. So, I'm going to have 4 buffs DNA tested. Blood, feather, or eggshell is what they need. I won't do blood, and they won't have a feather to pluck for a few days at least, so I looked up how to do the eggshell, and these bags were suggested. There are 18 eggs and once they start hatching, I can't open the incubator, so by having 4 eggs, each in their own bag, once it's safe to open the incubator, out they come. I'll mark each chick on the head with a waterbase marker and mark the shell of that chick with the same color. I'll ship the shells to the DNA place, who will email me back what sex each chick is. It's $16 ea.

When I'm ready to do lockdown, that is when I'll put the 4 eggs in those.

Edit: Sorry, I forgot the part about the book. It's so easy as hatching has guidelines/rules, and you just stick to them. It depends what incubator you would buy, and there are tons of threads about that, but you probably already learned what we like. If you want to buy a book, I've heard a lot about Gail Damerow's book but in the Learning Center, I found this very thorough article. When you get ready, we could start an email group here or a thread if you want it public, so that someone's with you the whole way.