Simulated Natural Nest Incubation~Experiment #1 So it begins....

[subhanalah]

When will you candle again, bee?

 

[Beekissed]

I don't know...maybe on the 15th. I'm kind of tired of seeing nothing but blobs or darker blobs so it takes all the fun and anticipation out of it all. As with my original idea, I'll either have chicks or I won't and no amount of candling is going to change that. I often feel sorry for the poor chicks with all that bright light shining on them...if those are eyeballs developing in there they have no lids to protect them and it can't be all that comfy.

 

[Tomtommom]

I don't know...maybe on the 15th. I'm kind of tired of seeing nothing but blobs or darker blobs so it takes all the fun and anticipation out of it all. As with my original idea, I'll either have chicks or I won't and no amount of candling is going to change that. I often feel sorry for the poor chicks with all that bright light shining on them...if those are eyeballs developing in there they have no lids to protect them and it can't be all that comfy.

I'm sure messing with the eggs is not beneficial, period. I could just imagine momma hen with a flashlight, checking her kids out.

 

[Lacy Blues]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/858992/natural-nest-incubation-my-attempt There you are. My bad. I thought I had.

Thank you. Maybe you did, I don't know, I could have missed it. I'm not always the brightest light in the box.

I don't know...maybe on the 15th. I'm kind of tired of seeing nothing but blobs or darker blobs so it takes all the fun and anticipation out of it all. As with my original idea, I'll either have chicks or I won't and no amount of candling is going to change that. I often feel sorry for the poor chicks with all that bright light shining on them...if those are eyeballs developing in there they have no lids to protect them and it can't be all that comfy.

Well, it definitely makes them squirm. I don't do it very often, maybe two or three times during the course of incubation but if I see them moving, I remove the light. Teaches them to be on top of things and to pay attention!

I'm sure messing with the eggs is not beneficial, period. I could just imagine momma hen with a flashlight, checking her kids out.

Oh, I just got a life-sized visual of that one! I'll have to see if I can draw that on paper and then I'll share it with you guys!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

I have been wanting something like this. Showing how the embryo develops every day inside the egg, and with reminders for milestones! Like. Heart is beating, eyes developing, etc!

Except chickens develop so fast that it would have to be hourly practically... I can see it now! Hour 56; heart begins to form. Hour 68; eye start to form, hour 72 heart starts beating.... 21 days is faster than rabbits go from being concieved to born... And chicks are born fully mobile with all their senses already! They are not blind, baked, deaf and unable to walk like a rabbit is. o_o Chickens happen FAST.

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

Bee you may like this thread

 

[subhanalah]

Except chickens develop so fast that it would have to be hourly practically... I can see it now! Hour 56; heart begins to form. Hour 68; eye start to form, hour 72 heart starts beating.... 21 days is faster than rabbits go from being concieved to born... And chicks are born fully mobile with all their senses already! They are not blind, baked, deaf and unable to walk like a rabbit is. o_o Chickens happen FAST.

hares are born fully mobile and ready to go like baby chicks, however I don't know their gestation time! And rabbit kits can crawl when they are born...Some crawl right out of the nest box or cage

 

[Beekissed]

Bee you may like this thread

I did! Thanks! I can see now that some of the things I've been seeing are veins and that the ones with the dark, full blobs are still developing and it's nothing to worry about..just going a little faster than others. I have one or two that has the same porosity of the one egg they have but there's seem to be developing so mine might make it too.

 

[Beekissed]

I think, after all I've seen and read the past few days, that I might...may...have 3 eggs developing where they should be. Two that have definite blood rings. Two or three that weren't fertile. And about 3 or more that quit right after the chick got eyeballs and I can't remember the rest. At day 15 I'll write them all down, remove the obvious quitters and unfertilized eggs and leave the developing ones and what do you all do with the blood ring ones? They look like they are developing but still have that definite blood ring and I've read that people remove them as it means the egg has bacteria in it and the chick will die anyway.

 

[Lacy Blues]

In my white eggs, sometimes I get a blood ring and I usually leave them for a day or two to see if anything good happens. It doesn't. The rest of the egg gets a very slight greenish brown tinge to it and the veins disappear. That is generally when I toss it. If an egg is clear (unfertilized), they're safe to feed to your other animals but in all other cases, not so much.