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This is what I did for the eggs. It seemed to help. The air cells got bigger. Out of 10 eggs, 3 hatched on day 21/22 perfectly fine. Then nothing else happened. No more pips or anything. 3 ended up not fully developed, not sure when they died. But the other 4 seemed completely developed just...

Thank you. That makes sense. I had asked my husband what the humidity was supposed to be because I couldn't remember. He looked it up and said 60%. No idea what he looked at but I should have double checked. Is there anything I should do for the eggs that are at day 18 with small air cells...

I candled the eggs that go into lockdown today and marked the air cells. They seem to have really small air cells. Would that be from too much humidity during incubation?

Wow!that's a big difference! I'll get a Thermometer to double check the temps. I guess that could explain early problems or delayed hatching but I think I am most concerned about all the chicks that are ready to hatch then just die. What would cause that?

I think they are both forced air incubators. They both have fans that run the whole time.

Temp in the LG did seem to fluctuate a lot. It's only our second time using it. It was generally between 99.6 and 100.6. Tried to keep humidity around 50-60% but it also seemed to fluctuate way too much. We didn't calibrate anything. The brinsea we have used a lot. Temp was 99.8. Filed both...

I've hatched a lot of eggs but this is a new problem for me. Started with 20 eggs but 8 were clear or early quitters. The 12 that made it to lockdown looked good but they are mostly welsummer and marans eggs so kind of hard to see much. Day 20, 1 hatched. Day 21, 2 more hatched after being...

They already sold out of the bantam specials. The specials that are still available are the ones on the website.

Thanks for all the comments! I think we're keeping the second rooster. But now we have a new problem with the hens! We have them penned up separate from the rest of our chickens. One of them started laying a light brown egg. I figured it was the first one with the bad comb so I took her out of...

Here is another picture of the first rooster's comb. What do you think of the first hen's comb? It kind of looks a little off to me. It seems thinner and not as bumpy.

Thanks for the opinions. I think I do like the second rooster better. I guess my main problem is that i watched a blue chick hatch from a brown egg so I know for sure that one of them is not a pure Ameraucana. I'm thinking it might be the first hen, her comb looks a little different but I'm not...

We ordered some BBS Ameraucana hatching eggs and hatched them with some of our mixed eggs from our own chickens. Most of them we can tell which are which but there are 4 blue chickens and I know that one of them is a mutt but I'm having trouble telling which one it is. I'm pretty sure the first...

I thought it would probably be too early to tell. But thanks for your guess! Will their muffs become more pronounced the older they get? And when can you tell what type of comb they have? That would probably help id them.

We hatched out 9 chicks on Thursday and Friday. 5 are pure Ameraucanas (from shipped eggs) and 4 are mutts from our own mixed flock. All the chicks are either blue or black and we can't tell which are which. Any ideas? Chick #1 and #2 Chick #3 is an Ameraucana (saw it hatch) and #4. Could...