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Good luck to all the people just setting eggs! Newlyweds, I'm glad you got at least one! Were you there to see it pop? To me, that's the coolest part. I'm happy to report that my amazing broody hen, Pecky, accepted all the chicks and is now mama to 26 little fuzzballs. I'll post pictures...

Aw, newlyweds, that stinks!!! What kind of incubator do you have? I'm so thrilled I went with the Genesis Hovabator. It does make things pretty simple and fool (cause I'm a bit of a fool) proof. I hope they're just being a little slow and will be pipped, at least, by morning. Mine are...

We're up to 10 hatched. Another any second!

Gypsylion, this is my first hatch, so I'm the last to give advice really, but your initial humidity goal seems a bit high. I think mine was about 40-45. Supposedly if it's too high the right amount of moisture won't evaporate from the developing chick/egg and it can drown when it pips. Some...

We woke up to 4 chicks and one more hatched during breakfast! Pips on most of the other eggs. It's thrilling after all that worry. Newlyweds I feel for you! Especially with all of us yapping about pips and zips. Hang in there and keep us posted!

Quote: Lol, I know what you mean! I think it's because you can trust chicky babies to show up at a certain time more than human babies. So each hour starts feeling like a human baby day. Edited to add my response--oops.

Just got my first little pips! Three out of 21, all leghorns. The RIR's have no action yet. All hope is not lost, Newlyweds! Update, before I could hit send I went back and checked and I have to RIR pips--hooray! Good luck everyone! So exciting.

Ah, that worked like a charm. Humidity=65%. Thanks so much for the tip!

Thanks Blabauve! I'll try that.

I have a genesis 1588. I filled the second trough with water but according to my hygrometer the humidity is only somewhere between 55-60. I thought it was supposed to get higher than that! What do you guys think? Should I be worried?

Oh my goodness! Babies already?! I didn't start until Monday night so I'm hoping I have a bit of time today. I'm going to go out and buy shelf liner this morning, and I think I'm going to have mine hatch in egg cartons, too. Holy canoli, the clock is ticking. Now I just hope and pray my...

Lorrir, I liked your rules for lockdown--made me laugh. That's what I thought lockdown was all about, but reading about paper liners threw me off! Newlyweds, so you just put the eggs all in the carton (pointy end down still?) and let them hatch in that? I knew you could line with things to...

I'm starting to get so nervous! What are the cupcake liners for? Remind me what to do at lockdown, please so I don't have to go back and do a search--Ive read this all before but I'm panicking here! Oy, I'm still building and fixing coops and trying to decide whether to give them all to my...

Just started mine first batch ever today, too! Please keep me posted on how things go for you.