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4/30/12 at 6:11pm

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Okay, I just candled my eggs and all the chicken eggs are good! 2 duck eggs were thrown out, the other 2 are good. Movement in every egg :-D

I couldn't see ANY movement in any of my eggs last night... but they are all still dark in the middle and the veins are red... Very confused. Going to candle them again tonight and see if anyone is awake this time.

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4/30/12 at 6:35pm

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Everyone is awake now :-) I wonder what they were doing last night that no one was moving... But anyway, YAY!

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5/6/12 at 7:02pm

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How are everyone's hatches going? I had one really rocking earlier and another just starting to pip. Actually while I was looking through the window of the incubator I heard "PEEEEEP! PEEEEEPPPP!" and I jumped back thinking the cats were bothering my older chicks and was off to save them... totally had forgotten I'd put them out in the coop days earlier (natural reaction to screaming chicks!) XD SO the "screaming chick" was coming from an egg! I'd never head them do anything other then soft peeps o.0 Guess he wants out.