Valentine's Day 1st Annual Hatch Along

[HerbGir1972]

Chicken match fixin ya go off da chain.
Will be picking up eggs for the guy who got our first chicken ever that turned out to be a too.
So we will be hatching sex links, EE's, and bantams in March

 

[SallyinIndiana]

What day should turkey eggs be candled? Since they grow slower and have thicker shells, I'm sure I won't be able to see much by day 7, maybe not much by day 10. I'm just thinking I don't want any eggs exploding in my incubator. That smell would take so much effort and time to remove.

 

[Ravynscroft]

What day should turkey eggs be candled? Since they grow slower and have thicker shells, I'm sure I won't be able to see much by day 7, maybe not much by day 10.  I'm just thinking I don't want any eggs exploding in my incubator.  That smell would take so much effort and time to remove.

I don't know when is good to candle them, but just do the smell test... they usually stink long before they would explode cuz bacteria in the egg is the culprit for explosions...
And sorry, I don't have any cabinets or wine coolers... I just happened to upgrade to cabinets myself and have a new home for my old bator already...

 

[Jessshan8]

What day should turkey eggs be candled? Since they grow slower and have thicker shells, I'm sure I won't be able to see much by day 7, maybe not much by day 10. I'm just thinking I don't want any eggs exploding in my incubator. That smell would take so much effort and time to remove.

I candle at day 10, 18 and day 26 just before lockdown.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I tried candling them yesterday, a lot have veins in the lavs eggs. My BY mix, not so much. I couldn't even see into the EE or the OE eggs at all, and a lot of the rest were iffy. I did have a couple with veins there, too, though.

My weights on both groups were real low. Lost about 3.5 grams in days 0-6. Anyone here weigh for humidity? I upped mine to 51%. It was at 45% for the first week. The humidity outside the incubator is around 30% most of the time, never more than 35%, so I think the bator is losing a lot of moisture due to the difference between the room and the bator RH.

Will try candling again maybe Sunday to see if I get better results at night. I wanted to weigh at the same time of day as they were set, so I was candling in the middle of the day last time. In a room with the blinds shut, with a blanket over my head, but still wasn't dark dark. So I need to do a repeat at night.



Looks like a lot of you are getting fertile eggs! I hear that is good this time of year to get any at all.

@misfitmorgan Sorry about the eggs! Its a cool idea, though. Have you done store eggs before?

@ChickyChickens Go Chicky go! Lol.

Sorry i've been gone over the weekend. Nope first time doing store eggs, we are going to try again but order them in this time.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I was wrong on my candling the other day. I did another check last night and none of my splash eggs where fertile. Theng I go to feed today and the roo was dead in the pen. I assume he had something going on that I couldn't see. He was one of my show birds. He will be missed. But I was fortunate to still have his cockerel I hatched last year so I replaced him with the youngster. It will be a while till I have fertile eggs in that pen again. A huge loss, loosing such a great roo and the girls are picking up on laying right now too. I have 7 hens in there with only 1 broody and 1 is a new pullet same age as the cockerel.

I filled another bator today and consolidated the first one with all the ones I set last saturday.

Very sorry you lost your Roo. Seems i hear about more and more Roos specifically being fine one day and then the next morning their dead.

So sorry about your loss. I lost my black copper marans rooster this summer and did not have a replacement. My hens were molting and not laying. Now I will have to get more eggs from a breeder to replace him. From now on I will keep two roosters. I always assumed that I could always just hatch more eggs if I lost a rooster, it never occurred that there would not be any eggs to hatch.

I did some serious candling today and eight out of nine of my amerucana eggs are looking good. My marans eggs,(splash and blues) are still too dark to tell, but I did find out that I had one upside down. I hate when that happens. Sometimes it's so hard to determine the small end of their eggs.

You can still flip the egg over...up to 9 days in. i have done that a few times...they hatched.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Ok so here are my candling results:

3 Clear EE
3 Clear Iowa Blue
14 Clear Whole Foods Fertile

OH candled the other bator so i have to wait to hear from him what he tossed.

 

[Jessshan8]

my results are out of 20 serama eggs set 8 were tossed due to clears and blood rings. 5 clears and 3 blood rings.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Anyone who is in the contest please PM me your new total after removing clears. Thank you!!!

 

[Ravynscroft]

I've only done a quick candle check, most are looking good... will fully candle tomorrow and pull clears...
Dang, I forgot to PM my guess on the original amount of eggs set for HAL, lol...