I put a sponge in and got the humidity to 60%. We have entered day 21 and have a wiggling egg and I heard a little chirp so we might have a little action later today.
My humidity was 50-60% first 17 days I dropped it to about 25% till lockdown to try and get the air sacs a little smaller. Now it's between 40-50% because I had to add atleast a little water, without any it was 16% and that made me more nervous. Nothing has happened yet but we are headed into...
My eggs go into lockdown today. So excited but a little nervous, when I candled last night the air sacs were really small for 17 days. In a different thread I was told to not add water at lockdown because my humidity has been too high I don't want the chicks to drowned but I also don't want...
Thank you for this thread it's giving me some hope that my chicks might make it. I candled today and noticed the air sacks were way too small so I have the humidity at 25% and I'm hoping to see an increase in the air sack size by tomorrow night This is my first hatch and everything has been...
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I'm on day 14 of my first hatch with 4 of 7 still going strong, lots of moving around when candled today. Had 2 that never started growing and 1 that had a few veins but died pretty early(I'm guessing from the incubator temp spike). We have 2 Wheaten Ameraucana, 1 Splash Ameraucana and 1...
Ya, I thought so too. We got 3 EE's hoping for hens and got 3 boys The other two are very aggressive and fight all the time so they won't be around much longer. This one is much sweeter so will try to find a good home since we can't have roos in our area. Thanks for the help!!
This is my 12 week EE and I'm having a hard time figuring out boy or girl. Coloring and comb say roo to me but tail feathers look more pullet. Anyone have any ideas???