MAY 2016 "Land of the Free Because of the brave!" Hatch-a-Long Hosted by, Mike & Sally

[Gwynny7]

Anyone know when you can candle guinea eggs? How do you candle a guinea egg? Just wondering since my nest has 34 eggs in it!!

 

[Pyxis]

Anyone know when you can candle guinea eggs?  How do you candle a guinea egg?  Just wondering since my nest has 34 eggs in it!! 

I do mine at six or seven days and I can usually make out something, but they're harder to see in than chicken eggs so don't toss them at seven days if you don't see anything yet!

 

[Saris]

One more Week!!!!

 

[Cynthia12]

Finally got the photo embedding to work on my phone. Here's one of our Russian Orloff embryos at day 9. I have a really cool video too, but no idea how to upload that.

Day 9, looking good!

 

[Cynthia12]

We have Silkies!! So far we have 4 yellowish ones and 2 blackish ones, and a few more pipped.

The first little black hatched has really bad splayed legs. And one of the yellow ones was an assisted hatch - I was a nervous wreck but got it done. He pipped on the pointy end, and was positioned in such a way that his head would only go one way, and he already had that hole pecked - just couldn't get his head moved to chip away at the rest of it. He's got curled feet. So I need to get the vet wrap back out and wrap them.

They are cute...that little black one also looks like it's doing what I call the paddle walk. The eventually get strong enough to get up on their legs and walk right..instead of on their bum.

 

[sdubski]

 Day 9, looking good!

Thanks! We're now on day 14, but I couldn't upload photos when I first tried.

 

[sdubski]

  Nice!  I believe videos need to be on youtube or vimeo to embed

Thanks for the tip, will try that!

 

[Honora]

I am on day 9, just candled & tossed 2 more eggs. One of them was scrambled; the other was a quitter; I think it was a blood ring. The last 2 eggs I could see movement, so hopefully they will make it the rest of the time! Really hoping for a couple of pullets to replace my 2 hens that died recently.

 

[generaldsherman]

My hatch might be done. Float tested the remaining eggs and found 3 DIS, probably the heat. The last two eggs stay for a couple extra days as I think they were wiggling during the float test.

 

[generaldsherman]

Here are my 3 chicks, got 1 splay-leg. Hopefully it's legs correct themselves with the bandaid.