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They are going to love it when they go outside

Yeah we use the heating pad method..they really love it and got mad and loud when I took it out. Lol

With a bator so small you could probably unplug it really quick and plug it into a bathroom outlet if they have externally piped. Turn on hot water in shower and steam up the room before you open it. That would be plenty of humidity I would think. Do what you need to do and close the top.

:celebrate

Guess we should have left the egg alone, it was viable or at least starting to develop. 😒 We took out two eggs that looked not to be fertile. One egg definitely wasn't but this egg had development.

No, nothing. And being very dark eggs it's hard to see much except that one with the dark ring

Day 7 in incubator. Shipped eggs (BCM) 99.5-100 temp. 40-50% humidity. Thick Dark ring running the entire circumference of the egg.

Lockdown day today!! Hopefully soon we will see little eyes looking back at us.

Our Maran didn't start laying till after 8 months old but our production red's, RIR, and gold and black sex link started earlier than that. Depends on the chicken and so many other variables

Candling every other day..yes they are so full now about the only thing you can see is the air cell. I have two thermometers and both were salt tested..the run about 3% lower than reading when salt tested. Our first hatch we didn't do bad, but we had late quitters and only one that didn't make...

Yeah, I get that..I just tagged my wife in another post about this same question. Lol

@MarciaN

So I see a few post about hatching in cartons... From what I was getting is that if you use a "turner'' that the eggs are on their sides then hatch them on their sides...if using a "rocker" style then place them in cut down egg carton to hatch in. This is supposed to be because of the location...

And it's just a bottom section of the hummingbird feeder nothing special... The plastic ones split apart so it makes it easy

We feed eggshell on the side because some of our hens really don't care for the pellets or the crumble they scattered it about and pick through it but they will eat the shell. Picky I guess 🤷 Then again they free range all day also