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10 hatched , 3 more pipping, 14 waiting for anything- no progress. this is a holding brooder made out of an old Chester drawer , they will go into the big brooder tomorrow morning, so far so good, just wish the other 14 eggs will hatch too
yes first hatch,,, first one was 14 hrs before helping,,on day 22,,,humidity (winging it), chicks SLW, BLRW, and silver sussex, i have a dropper have been moisting them .. it does look like there big in there shells......
i started with 27 eggs i have 4 that i helped so far,,, so ill continue...
yeah i think its to dry just added 2 cups warm h2o, inner membrane seems dry also touched it with warm damp napkin
12:45 update
another SLW pip thru and 1 Silver Sussex also
0ne started last night, so i left it,, this morning basically no change so i started to help. (i know carefully with water and napkin,tweezers. etc)
SLW started
BLRW- nothing
SS- nothing
how long can this take for the ones that already started to hatch,, those 3 are moving and peeping fairly...
Candled this morning 3 random eggs , good thing I didn't toss anything out cause I can see outlines of things that look like parts ??, and on one of them I swear everytime I put the light on a certain side the thing moves the other way , as if it doesn't like the light. Got about another week left
My eggs have been in the bator for 7 days now, I see no veins or anything else, pointy end down in turner , eggs are dark on big end when candled,, Got eggs from 3 different sellers, 30 total, I'm not taking them out till I'm 100% sure there's nothing in there, but not sure what to do if all are...