Candled the eggs today, of the 12 only one wasn’t developing. My daughter also dropped one. 🙃
So we’ve got 10 eggs in the homemade incubator going strong.
First go at a hatch-a-long! We lost our awesome Blue Copper Marans roo, Robert Snagclaw, so I’m trying to hatch as many eggs as I can while I still can. These eggs will be set Tuesday 5/21 and due to hatch 6/11. I have another incubator coming, so I’ll likely start another dozen when it gets...
Constructed a very rudimentary temporary incubator until the new one gets here (and ordered a second additional one as a backup for the future).
Temp is currently maintaining right at 100°, haven’t gotten the humidity dialed in but not as concerned about that.
The eggs spent probably 4-5 hours...
I just have a cheapy Chinese incubator that’s giving out on day 7 - my husband thinks faulty wiring. Amazon is sending a replacement but it won’t be here for four days.
Is there anything I can do for these eggs? I’d be happy to let a hen sit on them but don’t have any broodies.
Newbie at this.
I have 12 eggs in the incubator right now on day 6. The other 8 have a lot of clear, obvious veins. I’m not really sure what I’m looking at with these ones though. Sorry for the low quality pics.
Yes, the one I have does have an automatic turner! All things considered I think it’s sufficient for what I need.
Good to know! I will do that instead. I would definitely expect a decrease after the time, but would also like to maximize odds!
I did!
It was a little more difficult to tell because I had some dark green eggs in there, but four of the five were pretty obviously no good and I had suspicions about the 5th.
We opened them up and two looked as though they never started developing, the other three stopped around day 5/6.