Posts by GwenDellAnno

Out of 22 fertile eggs, 1 chick. Reepacheep took about 3 hours from first pip to popping the top.  Royal (the cat) is quite interested!!!         Yes, I was trying to take pictures in the...

Yeah!!! I had one pip two hours ago.  And just a few minutes ago a little dark chick popped the top off a green egg.  Nothing else yet.  S/he will be in there for a while.  I hope s/he has a friend before this is...

It is exciting to see everyone else's chicks.   I am starting in on day 22 and still no sign of anything.  How long do you wait before ditching?    

At the beginning of Day 20..... No signs of anything, no cheeps, no pips, no nothing....... I am not optimistic!!!

The threads where I read about it said coolish water.   I don't think the temp would be as important as losing the humidity in the bator... which is why you want to keep it closed always at lock-down..... that's why it's...

So... my eggs are also now in lockdown but I'm not really optimistic. Seems like the temps just want to wobble up and down.  We candled (still can't get anything real good even with that little LED from Canadian Tire) and we water...

Yeah, I know.   But this is my third try.  The first the temps went up and down too much and the second I drowned them with too much humidity and none made it.  So I'm a bit edgy.   Third time lucky, I'm...

So... would you put eggs into lockdown early or late?   My 18th day starts at 8am tomorrow morning. I need to be on the road by 7:30 and will not be home until around 11:00 at night.  (My son is turning through the day,...

For lockdown, I'm planning to take them out of the turner and lay them down.  But.... I thought I'd use the lids of egg cartons and lay six of them in each... 3 on each side of the ridge.  That way they can't be rolling all...

So we candled again tonight (day 13 for us).   Many of the 22 left still look like they're developing OK...mostly I can see proper air space development.   Some it was really hard to tell.  We have really thick...