Set eggs 3/5. Looking for others to hatch with! - Page 30

I set 30 (mixed) RR on3\6 we are supposed to go into lock down tonight.  I've candled one  to two times a week. I can clearly see the air sac in each egg, and a "shadow".  But no details or movement.  The eggs are very Brown. Is this normal to not see detail or movement?  I am so  nervous.  this is my first hatch ever.  I feel like  I did when I was pregnant....I have 30 little lives depending on me to do this right!!!  Needless to  say I am a wreck, and this wasn't even  my idea.  My DH is the one who showed up one day with our 3 Bantams.  I  was the  one who said "oh no!  this is your thing chicken man'.

Look at me now, I am so in love.  To top my nerves off, someone in  the house  added 4 eggs from our Bantams with out me  looking. They are due Easter!  Or around there.....

All I can say now is AAAAAHHHHH!!!!  I love reading y'alls posts and hearing of the sucess, however  it makes me even more manic.  Send some happy thoughts our way, and good luck to y'all!

So excited for all of you in lockdown.  Here's some Hatching Blessings to all of you...!   Epecially happy for all of you with pips, zips and chicks! More pictures, please.   Keep up the good work (and posts), Everyone!  I go into lockdown in 2 more days (Tuesday, 3/27) with my 5 Easter Eggers....so I'm right behind y'all!

 

Remember my 24 Silkie eggs that I set March 16?  I candled again on Day 7 and removed 11 eggs from the C2 pen (Coop 2?).  They were indeed clear/infertile.  I still have 13 Silkie eggs that are developing and due to hatch April 6 or 7.  The good news is that I e-mailed the breeder and she offered to give me "replacement eggs" for the C2 duds.  It's so nice working with nice, honest people, especially local breeders.  My DH is a little jealous about my chicken and incubator obsession (right now) so I asked the lady if I could hold off for about 4 months and get eggs later this summer.

 

I tried, but I can't get a pic :(

Did your camera battery die?  

 

No, I cannot get my camera to focus in on it cause of the baskets.

Now it's been 22 1/2 hour since I candled the egg and saw it trying to get through the membrane. Still nothing, but I have a question. So, when I first started incubating them, I had a thermometer in there. Although, at about week two, I used to thermometer to regulate the temperature in the brooder. Then when I put it back in the incubator, and it was reading 80 degrees. I got a little panicked, and turned it up. Then I got 62 mini IR thermometer to see what the temperature was, (this is not a regular thermometer, you can't just set on top of the eggs to regulate the temperature, you point at the eggs and it regulates it that way). It read 104 at first. Again, I got worried. I candled the eggs, and they were fine. I was kinda scared to mess with the temperature, so since the eggs were fine, I left it at that temperature. When I candled them yesterday they were still fine. I just realized to day, that I can't open to incubator to regulate the temperature during lockdown (which is right now). So my question is, if I get a new thermometer and a spray bottle, then could I open it to put the thermometer in? Then just mist the eggs afterwards? I'm worried that they are too cold. I've regulating the temperature the best I can through the holes in the top, but I'm not sure it's getting an accurate enough temperature. None of them are pipped yet. Any advice?

Edited by Ilovemyduckies - 3/24/12 at 4:26pm

Ooooh, I see.  That's got to be frustrating.  Can you see enough inside to see pips or not really?

 

 

I can see kinda into 2 of the small baskets pretty good, wish I would have arranged them different - too late now. I can see this pip really well. I also just heard a peep.

Probably not what others will advise but I would open for just a moment and mist. I am on lockdown and my thermometer got tipped over and I think the humidity was about 61 but couldnt see for sure. I opened it and straightened it up and had a misting bottle with very warm water so as to replace the heat lost too. Was only open for maybe 10 seconds , tops. After the misting, the humidity went up to 82 and I had to pull out the plugs for a bit to bring it back down. About two hours later I was walking by bad aw a baby kick out of the shell. I have about 7 pips nd one baby