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Here's one of the OE eggs hatching on Wednesday: https://photos.app.goo.gl/jhXZE6UpFqDFbN169

FYI, I don't know if I already said it, but these chicks could be thought of either as "barnyard mix" or F1 / F2 olive eggers. The hens are either cream legbar or olive eggers (based on either legbar or cuckoo marans based on the way they look), and the roosters are blue marans (cuckoo and...

So far with hatchings since I started this insanity last year, I've hatched 71 chicks and keets. Of that I've lost a total of four: the one this morning, two keets that died in the nesting boxes from unknown causes, and one of three keets that ran off into the woods when I was transferring them...

Yesterday was officially day 0 at 10pm. I had one more hatch but I ended up having to euthanize the chick this morning: one leg was formed twisted, which explains the difficulty it had hatching, and it seemed to be in quite a lot of discomfort. That leaves 3 eggs left in the incubator, but from...

When I got mine I got them as a pack of 3 because I wanted to compare the incubators and have a spare. I just use the govee's numbers, particularly the 24 hour average. I've also had fun seeing what the temps are in the brooders, and I've even put one under a broody chicken to see what temps &...

After getting back from work today I checked the "final five." Two I can hear chirping, so I candled the other three. One has movement. One I can't really tell if it's moving or not, and the third stopped developing shortly after the last candling I did last week, so that's a definite dud. More...

Five more, six to go... I like it a lot more than my Nurture Right 360: for one thing the lid attaches a lot more easily. Hatch rates seem to be better, too. Last one I started with 18, had one blood ring about two weeks in, had another that never hatched. Last couple hatches I've done I've...

18 chicks in the brooder now. One is zipping and chirping, six are pipped, and four aren't showing any pips.

9 more hatched, for a total of 17, with.nomber 18 almost out.

I had a gap in the action, so I moved the eight fluffy chicks to the brooder late morning. By now another four have hatched. All but five are either pipped or zipping.

Up to eight, now.

Three more this morning, with another two almost out.

We have our first chickie!

Went to check the incubator this afternoon and found a second one starting.

Came in this morning to check the water level in anticipation of starting lockdown at mid day and found this over achiever. So we're in lockdown mode a bit early.

Candled again last night, all seem to be developing nicely and there's obvious movement on all of them. We should be going into lockdown Tuesday!

First candling, 1 week in. Most are developing nicely. One dud so far (#22). 29 left. They're numbered left to right, top to bottom. The blue eggs are cream and silver legbar hens, the greens are olive eggers, and the brown ones should me my "failed" olive eggers. Feel free to pick ones to...

30 eggs in the incubator. You can think of them as either BYM or F1 / F2 olive eggers. The hens are either olive eggers or cream legbars. The roosters are blue cuckoo maran, blue copper maran, or olive egger. They went in last night, and I'm hoping for a hatch rate like I had in the fall: 18...