Recent content by spartacus_63

50% on shipped eggs is pretty good.

Rolling it over would not have hurt it either, but it is fine where it is. The chick will turn as it unzips anyway.

It looks like you are candling from the small end in the picture. Try candling from the other end. It looks like you have a normal air cell for day 11, but it is hard to tell with the angle of the light.

I'd wait. What could possibly be so urgent?

I do not get wrapped up about when to move the chicks to the brooder. An hour or a day, years ago I left them in the incubator for the duration of the hatch. You can move chicks to a brooder right after they hatch and they will be fine as long as there is a heat source (I use a Brinsea...

That is exactly what I said, Finally we agree on something.

I had a dismal hatch with 7 of 25 hatching and surviving. This was a first for me, where all 25 were viable and active on day 18.

Woke up this morning to 5 (of 25) pips. I think it is a Good Friday!

They look good to me. Good development and the air cells are about where they should be.

25 eggs in lockdown, all developing and active. The average weight loss is right on target at 11%. Humidity is just under 60%. I expect the Easter weekend socer tryouts to be a huge success! :D

If they are due to hatch soon, why would you toss them if there is doubt?

Reading is fundamental.

I have no idea how you define snarky, but I was not. I certainly did not disrespect your opinions, I simply disagree with them. Disagreement is not disrespect. I even stated "I have raised chicks with broody hens as well as without and my opinions are just that, my opinions. I'm not trying...

So you absolutely accept the word of a person with no expertise other than personal experience. Cath Andrew's is far from the absolute on raising chickens. Like the internet, not everything in books is what it may seem. My comments have been from personal experience. I have been raising...

As this shows no source information, I will accept it as yet another opinion.