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I had a scare this morning. I was getting the chicks ready to show to someone who had expressed interest in buying some, and I found one lil floof ball who wasn't standing on one of her legs (OK I don't know the sex, but I'm using "her" for convenience). She was standing kind of on the side of...

Update on the stuck chicks: Still going strong, drinking water with nutri-drench, up and walking. So far they look fine. Only time will tell I guess.

Incubator has been emptied out. The two duds were eggtopsied for science. The first one had a developed chick in it, but some of its internal organs were externally located. The second one was badly deformed. Scissor beak, missing one eye, head badly misshapen. The poor lil things were...

Well, I read where you had a lot of cracks and issues with the eggs. I wouldn't call that a low success rate on YOUR part. You just got a bad batch of eggs. I started out with 38, one was a clear at day 7, scrambled in the shell. I think it was a misfire from one of my hens, and not anything...

Well, here it is on the night of day 22. I think it's pretty safe to call it. Out of 37 eggs that made it to lockdown, 35 hatched, two are just sitting there like a couple of duds. If there's nothing happening by tomorrow morning, I may eggtopsy them just for educational purposes. I had...

Wowie my chickies are determined little buggers. Even after the fiasco with the temp dropped for nine hours mid-incubation, I STILL have multiple pips here at the end of day 20. So not only are they on schedule some are even a smidge early! I'm trying my best to just leave them be and let...

Yep, my incubator was at 100.4 this morning, the little chicks are definitely generating their own heat now. The same thing happened last time, and they all hatched just fine so I am not going to sweat the temperature going up for a short while. 101 is well within the safe temps range.

Day 10 candling results: Lots of movement! I even managed to see movement in some of the green eggs. I don't know if I just lucked out in hitting the exact angle, or if it's because after looking into 30-odd eggs I just had a better idea of what I was seeing... anyhow I'll take it! There was...

Well, we have hit a bump in the road. Late last night Someone accidentally disconnected the power supply to the incubator. It was without power for around 9 hours. When I found it my thermometer read 73 degrees. I cried, I babbled semi-incoherently, I lost all appetite for most of the day. We...

I just candled. Results: All Blue Easter Eggs show veining, on target air cell size, and some showed slight movement. All Green EEs: WHO KNOWS? Can't see anything, mark air cells and move on. Pale Brown (RIR) eggs: Good air cell development, and WHOA that was an eyeball or something. Yep...

I put 38 eggs in my incubator on the 30th. Last time I only had 13 in there, so this is new. I'm hatching all eggs from my own backyard flock. Most are hatchery Rhode Island Red, but I have 2 Easter Egger hens. My first batch of chicks were all EE/cross, and they are healthy as anything so...