The Incubator Thread

[WalnutHill]

I put some eggs in mu LG incubator i manually turned them everyday 3 times a day. After 21 days nothing happened at all so i thought id give it another day or two. So after the 23rd day still nothing happened so i decided to give up on it.

I decided to crack open the eggs to see if anything had happened at all and our of 26 eggs 21 had blood in the yolk and the other 5 had what looked to be a very very small chick (looks to be like a chick the started to develop then just stopped at like a week or week and a half). Can someone please help me? Tell me if i did something wrong or what i can do to better increase the hate rate because i will be incubating more eggs here in the next 3 days and i dont want these eggs to end up like these past ones did. please send feedback thank you!

If they failed in the first week, it's usually due to temperature, either too cold or too hot. Before you set any more eggs, be sure to check your incubator with calibrated thermometers.

 

[fordguy32]

If they failed in the first week, it's usually due to temperature, either too cold or too hot. Before you set any more eggs, be sure to check your incubator with calibrated thermometers.

ok thank you i will do that

 

[WVduckchick]

@WalnutHill gives such good advice

Did you try it?

Did you candle the eggs along the way? If they died that early, you could have known long before day 23.
There are also some good websites with pics of development by day, so you can figure out almost exactly what day they died. It may help you determine if something happened on a particular day? Temp spike? Google "chicken egg development"

 

[jessicaagross]

Hi, sorry if this has already been asked, but I just put some turkey and duck eggs in the incubator yesterday. When I woke up this morning it was at 104-105! Are these eggs a lost cause?

 

[Catman58]

Candle them and then investigate the temp. Issue. I would not call it a lost cause just yet. Hope this helps

 

[jessicaagross]

Thank you! What would I look for this early in candling? Tomorrow will be day 3. Temp is now perfectly stable at 99.5.

Edited because I forgot to say, thank you. Very rude of me

 

[WVduckchick]

Day 3 you aren't going to see much, so you may just have to wait a few days. You should be able to see some spidery looking veins, starting around day 5ish, should be plenty prominent by day 7.
I'm not sure what they would look like if the high heat already killed them.
Good luck and let us know how it goes!

 

[PD-Riverman]

Hi, sorry if this has already been asked, but I just put some turkey and duck eggs in the incubator yesterday. When I woke up this morning it was at 104-105! Are these eggs a lost cause?

No one can say if they are a lost cause because "we" do not know how long it was at that temp-----might not been there long enough for the temp in the egg to get that hot. I do not know how you set your incubator-----but just for info-----always set it up for the eggs(turner water etc) and let it run atleast 24hrs AFTER your last thermostat adjust before putting the eggs in to make sure it is stable. If it was a little low and you re-adjust then add the eggs without waiting-----that can be a bid mistake. Good Luck

 

[WalnutHill]

Most definitely keep them incubating for a couple of days. If you catch a bad odor or see "wet" eggs than find and dump those, but otherwise candle at 7 to 10 days and look for veins up to the air cell.

 

[gimmie birdies]

It is hard to take baby pics because everyone is moving. the 2 light gray (Isbar/blue andelusian, and Isbar/Lavender orpington) were hatched on day 19, the blackish one (SFH) was hatched on day 20.

close up of the lav. Orp/blue isbar mix chick.

3 more pips and 5 still waiting. today is still day 20.