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Maybe daddy was an Easter Egger. Some have poofy cheeks. I splurged and bought an automatic humidifier from Incubator Warehouse. I think it made things a LOT easier. It was great not worrying about the incubator going dry.

I think I'm going to end up with 13 out of 17. 2 of the unhatched eggs are extremely large and I didn't really want to incubate anyway and two I'm not sure why they aren't pipping. My husband talked me into the two big ones. Not giving up on them yet.

8 hatched 3 pipped 2 unzipping 4 pending with tapping noises. One of the pipped ones has me concerned. It looks like there is a little blood around the pip hole like maybe he pipped too early. He seems ok for now though and is cheeping up a storm.

3 have hatched and the 4th is still working on it. 2 more have pipped . They are mutts at this point. I was told daddy was an Easter egger but he didn't have puffy cheeks. He was a great rooster and if I didn't feel so guilty about his death I would have just ordered chicks in the spring. I...

Chick 2 is here and 2 more have pipped.

First one is out after only 4 hours. 2 have pips. It was great, the entire family was watching as he came out.

Eeek! The first two are pipped. So excited to have New Years babies. Maybe I'll make it to midnight tonight.

I did the first candling and weight check. I only had one with a blood ring and the rest look fine. I did chart the weights and locations in the incubator and I found a pattern that the eggs toward the top seemed to be losing weight more quickly than the ones at the bottom. There wasn't any...

I've had an incubator for a long time but I've never used it before other than when I had a broody mama get off her nest after half her eggs had hatched. Last weekend a couple coyotes got into the coop and took 10 of my 15 chickens including my rooster. I collected eggs for a couple days and...