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Also I am in on Ethel. I have an unnamed BA pullet that hasn't laid yet. She is now an Ethel.

After seeing your post and doing some research on it I think this problem might have been from a larger than usual air cell on a few of the shipped eggs I got. Looking at everything that happened I think the chick exhausted itself getting through the membrane and then the shell. It might have...

I attempted to assist an Icelandic chick that had been pipped without progress for over 18 hours. I knew it was a losing proposition from the start, but it was well and truly stuck. As all the hatched chicks were fluffed and no other eggs were pipping I figured I had nothing to lose. Following...

Well I think she will be ok. They have been knocking the shells around and pecking inside at the membrane. The little one caught one of the Icelandic chicks trying to eat the yolk thing from her shell and pecked at it and ran it off. Then she waddled back over and ate it herself. I take that as...

Well crud! Someone should have told it! It looks ok, but just a little smaller than its sibling. Hope it will be alright. I will give it what TLC I can when it gets out of lockdown.

Ok, now up to two Icelandic chicks and two BA X EE chicks with two more of each pipping. I'm a little worried about one of the cross chicks. Part of what I think is the yolk is still stuck to the inside of the egg. The chick looks fine but the other hatched eggs didn't have the yolk looking...

My 11 year old came running in to my room this morning yelling "We got one! We got one!" I go in the laundry room where I had the incubator set up and find one of my Icelandic eggs had opened up and given me a chick. About five minutes later we saw one of my five BA X EE eggs give us a little...

I have had a few minor temperature swings, but nothing too bad so far. Keeping my fingers crossed. My wife is rolling her eyes over my enthusiasm for chickens since we moved out in the country. We have plenty of room and I just love working with them. I am thinking about another hatch after...

Second day of lockdown and it's killing me! Just anxiously waiting for the first egg to start rocking. Is every hatch going to be like this? Or is it just because it's my first hatch that I'm this nervous?

I'm on lockdown! Only 11 of 32 intact Icelandic eggs I started with made it this far. 5 of the 6 eggs from my black australorp are still going. I am a little disappointed with the success rate on the Icelandic eggs, but I think they had a rough time with the postal service. The best packaging...

At 13 days I candled and have 14 of the 32 shipped Icelandic eggs with movement. 5 of the 6 from my black australorp have movement. I lost one Icelandic egg today. I came home for lunch and my 11 year old son was on the verge of tears. He had tried candling an egg and it slipped out of his...

First candling was last night (day 8). Out of the 32 Icelandic eggs in the incubator I pulled 5 with obvious blood rings. 14 definitely have developing chicks. I have 5 I think are clears and the rest I am not sure about. Of the 6 from my black australorp pullet and EE roo only 1 is developing...

Ok, my thermometers are driving me crazy. My BIOS shows 101 degrees and 54% humidity. My Accu Rite shows 98.8° and 44% humidity. The built in on the incubator (Farm Innovators circulated air) reads 102° and 60% humidity. The BIOS is at one side in a spot between the turner and the side, the...

Ok, got my order of 36 Icelandic eggs today. 3 were broken and another badly cracked. So I have 32 in the incubator with 5 from my one Black Australorp which has been fertilized by Booster the Rooster, my EE rooster. Turner is off until tomorrow to let the air cells stabilize. Due to hatch on...

I'm in as soon as the eggs I ordered arrive. I have 36 Icelandic eggs ordered. The incubator is up and running to check if it is holding temperature. I will also add some from my one Black Australorp pullet that is laying. She has only thrown out six eggs and three of the first four were...