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    Cemani farms in Indonesia

    My experience on shipped Ayam Cemani eggs: I've had pretty high success on incubating with my own backyard chicken eggs.., almost 100%. So I was confident enough to buy some Ayam Cemani from Ebay. Long story short, after several hundred $ spent and 21+ days later, I got 20+ rotten eggs and...
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    THE Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco Thread; Hatches, etc. (PICS)

    Yep, that's how I roll. *LOLOLO I think I just stumbled onto that same slippery slope you're on. Well, I wasn't about to pay $2,000 for those Ayam pair from Green Fire Farm. Got my eggs the other day, I've got some challenges with them rupture and damage, I guess I'll pay for it either way...
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    THE Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco Thread; Hatches, etc. (PICS)

    Tonight, I'm putting in some shipped eggs, this is also my first time with shipped eggs. Initial candling of the shipped eggs didn't look good, it's unfortunate. The air cells (ones that can be seen), most of them were distorted; some ruptured and some damaged. Based on observations, almost...
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    THE Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco Thread; Hatches, etc. (PICS)

    Egg info. on the remaining 3 eggs: I actually started with 24 eggs, 12 of them came from my backyard stock and the other 12 came from a friend of mine, who came to visit and drove here. After 1st candling, 4 of the eggs from my friend were not fertilize so they went into the trash. All mine were...
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    THE Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco Thread; Hatches, etc. (PICS)

    Day 22 dilemma: Today marks the 22nd day of incubation and I got 3 eggs that hasn't hatched. Out of 20 fertile eggs, 17 has hatched and these 3 little guys have yet to budge. What are my options left and should I candle them to see if there's sign of life? What can I do to learn from this...
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    Brakel (and related breeds) Thread

    Beautiful birds. Anybody got any hatching eggs for sale? I'm interested. Please PM if you've got some. I'm in the US, zip code 74501. Thank you much.
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    She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

    Solis lumen. Latin for "Sunlight" or "Sunshine".
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    THE Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco Thread; Hatches, etc. (PICS)

    Day 19 and Lockdown Updates: Yesterday was day 19 and around 7pm, I went to check on the incubator and low and behold, 3 little guys were peeking at me! Our whole family was ecstatically excited! ...and then this morning (day 20), when we woke up, 8 more were sitting there peeking at us...
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    She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

    Interesting combo; Skinheads with Cyndi Lauper, you might have to put tattoos on the hybrids to keep track of them.
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    She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

    Great thread, I enjoy the humor and great reading, experience outweighs any book imo so keep them coming. My 1st bator batch are due to hatch this coming Monday / Tuesday. *feeling excited... Question for both of y'all: As mentioned, my fist hatching is due this Monday/Tuesday. So this...
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    THE Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco Thread; Hatches, etc. (PICS)

    Great feedback! Well, I guess I don't feel so bad taking them out. Thanks again for the edification.
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    THE Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco Thread; Hatches, etc. (PICS)

    Day 14 updates: Day 14th was yesterday, I went to candle again and for the most part, 20 out of 24 were solid black, which means the growing chick is filling up that egg pretty solidly. *feeling ecstatic However, the other 4 eggs were a little depressing and puzzling. The #1 egg from above...
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    THE Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco Thread; Hatches, etc. (PICS)

    The great thing about BYC is, there's even a product review forum... I found the comments/ feedback from BYC'ers very useful / informative. https://www.backyardchickens.com/products/brinsea-octagon-20-eco-auto-turn-egg-incubator
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    THE Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco Thread; Hatches, etc. (PICS)

    Charmin' Candler! lol -using a bear to charm a chick. lol I have to agree, hopefully egg #1 will display some signs of life on day 14th. Candling is pretty exciting, I can empathize with that "slippery slope" comment you mentioned earlier. Now if we can just put a fast forward...
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    THE Brinsea Octagon 20 Eco Thread; Hatches, etc. (PICS)

    Day 7 updates: Well, all this worrying and anxiety has been answered with the candling of yesterday evening. With all this education and personal experience, I feel like I've grown an inch with the eggs. LOL. Moving on... so yesterday evening, I candle all the eggs. They all look very good and...
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