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Do broodys normally take a break while their eggs are pipped??? Granted she's been sitting there forever and has two toddler chicks climbing all over her... but I was just surprised to find her up.

I think I'm finally posting this in the right place... 40 set 32 at lockdown 21 fuzzy babies! 14 EEs 7 are EE over Black Java and cuuuuuute!

What's wrong with this little guy??? There are two like this...

After a billion hatching (okay, 18, but it looks like a billion in the bator) yesterday, there are still several eggs with tiny pips, and three with bigger holes that were there last night and now look yellow. I've had trouble with the temp being too low (90 ish) and even have my flashlight...

Humidity SAYS 60ish, but I've felt that its been off, and the temp went DOWN. having trouble getting it above 90.

Six have now hatched, I can't get the temp up, and condensation is forming on the windows!!! What do I do?

Is this stuff hanging off the chick okay? It's my second to hatch and I didn't notice it on the first one. 2 done, and a bunch more pips!

Realizing putting this thermometer here was a baaaaad idea. Do you think they can push it off? I have 3 tiny cracks already.

I am so sorry for your loss. I actually thought about your chicks today when going through an old photo album from college. We lived in Australia and went by a golf course that had this sign -- just thought it was funny...

W What kind are those? Beautiful!

Is this little pointy place where he is trying to internally pip? I saw it moving there!

Did you mean don't move the broody and her nest until after my HAL chicks hatch and the bator is empty, just in case?

That egg was the wrong color to be her one 8 day one. I have a rabbit hutch she can stay in -- I was planning on using it for my HAL chicks (if any hatch!), but I guess she'll be done before they're old enough to go outside. How do I go about moving her? Not to sound (ahem) chicken, but she's...

She went broody 8 days ago and she only had one egg. Yesterday I saw the clutch when she was up and there were three more eggs, from different hens. I usually keep really good track of who lays what, but I went out of town and things got complicated. I've collected the right number of eggs...

I took that one in the bathroom and candled it, saw just a yolk shadow and decided to crack it and see how far along it was -- probably the extra eggs all came from this weekend when my husband was collecting. How old does this look?

I went back out a couple of hours later and a brown egg with an x on it was sitting next to her. What does that mean? It was cool. I would stick it in my bator, but I'm supposed to start lockdown today. When it gets dark tonight I'm going to take someone's (sorry, I lost your response/name in...

So in addition to my bator, my black hen went broody a week or so later. She had one egg and two golf balls. Yesterday I checked everything while I saw she was up (very convenient for me -- she does her thing at noon everyday) and my brown hen was sitting on the eggs and screaming at me! Is it...

Oh no! Have I screwed things up??? I just realized the blue tape on the hovabator I borrowed covered vent holes. I'm on day 16 and JUST took it off. I traced the air cells today (wasn't home day 14) and they look small. What do I need to do before lockdown???

Well, I just went out to look at her again and I guess she won't get up long enough to steal eggs -- there was one sitting in the opposite end of the nest box. It was warm, so couldn't have been there long. So I guess she's sitting on three golf balls and two eggs, lol. How many do they try to...

So I collected two eggs at lunch and went out to get the other three around four o'clock. Well, there might be three. But my Black Java hen, who has been laying a few weeks might be broody? She has flattened herself out in the favorite side of the nest box and kind of barked at us (who knew a...