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i am thinking about getting more eggs too, but from another place since the eggs I bought from the farm keep having hair line cracks in them. Weird. I also found out where the nut came off from my incubator. It was from the bottom of the heating unit.

Wow... I had 2 die in the egg. One zipped halfway and the other just gave up after having a hole in the egg. Poor things. Out of 14 eggs I have 12 chicks... I originally had 24 eggs so I have a 50% hatch rate. lol. Most of my chicks are Leghorns/RIR combo. Cute little buggers. lol.

Meet one of my 12 chicks... I named him Jessie James, or Houdini because he disappeared and causes a lot of trouble for me. lol. He "disappeared" for a while from the cage. I continued to count 11 chicks and knew I had 12 so I started to tear my room apart looking for him, but he was in the...

Congrats on your first hatch. I am up to 8 chicks and the 9th hatching out of 14 eggs. Before lock down all 14 eggs had chicks in them. i'm thinking about moving some of them to the brooder box shortly. I am getting worried. but not sure if i should intervien. One has zipped half way and...

So i went to bed with only 2 chicks fully hatched. I got up at 10:00am and saw that 4 more chicks popped out of their eggs! So i'm up to 6 chicks. I have another 2-3 egg starting. I'm just a bit worried that one egg looks like it might have had "help" hatching by another chick peking it. :( I...

my chick is now causing trouble rolling over the pipped and hatching eggs so i broke protocol and turned them up right reallly fast. i only have 1 fully hatched out of 14. 3 other have pipped and the other ones dont show any signs of anything. Which sucks.

awww. my little one is sooo good. just laying down next to an egg that is pipped. Hehehehe.

This morning I woke up to 1 pip and peeps... By the time I got back from shopping (3:00pm) I thought I would have 1 chick. But when i went to check on the eggs I found another had pipped and the first one had no more progress, so hoping that I might have 1-2 chicks by tomorrow. edit - Instead...

Day 19 and still nothing. Argh.... 14 eggs and i'm getting antsy.

Today I went into lock down at 6pm. an hour late. Today I ended up buying a Black Fin Shark at Walmart so that was a surprise for me today. lol. When i went to open the incubator i found a nut that fell into the incubator and have no idea where it came from. I guess when this batch hatches I'll...

One thing you should do (along with filling the tray) is to keep a wet (damp) sponge in the incubator to get the humidity up. it might take an extra day or so for your chicks to hatch. last time i had hatches i also put 2 paper towels (dry) to catch the egg shells when they hatched for easy...

Didn't meant o confuse you kmartinez. While holding the egg pointy side down you put the candle on top on the fatter part.

I'm a puttz... as wolozits mother likes to call him when he's not thinking straight on the big bang. LOL. It turns out that all 14 eggs are fertile!! I have been candling on the wrong end of the egg. how did i manage that? Omg.. lol. This past week I wrote a letter to my pen pal in the middle of...

i feel with this hatch time is going by so slow i guess because i'm not thinking about it too often lol. i do check periodically like every other day to check the humidity. :)

So i candled yesterday. one thing i noticed different about this hatch is the veins are a bit thicker than the last hatch but the chicks are moving quite fine except for 2 out of 14 eggs. They are pitch black and i can't see anything... So I think they died. :(. Oh well. 12 eggs is still good. I...

I have 14 eggs... i think 2 quit cause i couldn't see anything moving. i took a picture. believe it or not, it's fertile... i just thought the air sells were on top in the fat area and not in the skinny.

I candled tonight with my new egg candler which i love. :) i can a lot more than when I used the old candler which was pretty much a regular flash light. Majority of the 14 eggs i have left (our of 24) are fertile and saw the embryo moving around... awesome. I believe day 18 is May 18th...

i thought with still air you need 102

It's day 6... I'm down to 14 eggs (from 24) due to stupid hairline cracks. I am definitely going to get my next batch of eggs from someone else... Also we have had a heat wave and so therefore i took out one of the red stoppers on the top of the incubator... the temp has been 102 and the...

Thank you for your input in the candler I purchased. It is making me look forward to it tomorrow so I can finally candle. I guess that is one good thing about my candler breaking is that i'm not candling every day. lol. We are having a heat wave today and i have to keep an eye on my eggs...