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    Transporting Hatching Eggs

    Thank you all! we opened most of the eggs and just as I thought when I candled them most had never started hatching and the few with shadows had mostly just a small grey blob and greyish fluid in the yolk. I think I order some chicks today
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    Transporting Hatching Eggs

    I don't think it was the humidity, I was right in the correct window for incubating and hatching. I am sorry I keep using the wrong term for incubating and hatch, calling it all the same. :) I had the humidity 45-55% mostly at about 50% for incubating and at 65%-70% mostly close to 65% for the...
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    Transporting Hatching Eggs

    Just looked at this thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261876/chicks-are-here-egg-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation and I had a lot of porous eggs that looked like that. So it must have been the eggs, maybe? Can porous eggs become more cold on ice then others? The ones that...
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    Transporting Hatching Eggs

    I candled them yesterday and it doesn't look good. No movement, no chirping. Because they are mostly brown eggs it's hard to see, I don't really have a special candler, because we are not going to incubate very often. What I see is mostly empty eggs, nothing showing, some are liquid sloshing...
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    Transporting Hatching Eggs

    I also got 42 eggs from a breeder 5 hours away we picked up by car. I am now getting worried since we are at day 24 and still no chicks. We used to hatch quail eggs and never had an issue but never did chicken eggs The breeder had packed the eggs well but put them on blue ice packs inside a...
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