Out of 8 shipped eggs, 4 brabanter and 4 dominique; I have 2 live Brabanter chicks. The Dominique that was malpositioned, died in the egg. When I removed that, I checked the other 3 remaining, and tossed one after candling. The other two are back in the incubator but no sign of life. I will...
2 pips today, one is making good progress. The other? Please tell me if this is what you call malposition? What percentage of chicks piping on the pointy end, make it out?
Catching up on this thread and totally fascinated with the banter on humidity levels, weighing eggs, meddling vs. benign neglect.
This is only my second hatching using the brinsea mini eco advance. It went so well the first time, I am barely thinking about it now. As for meddling? First...
Mine are due to hatch June 8th. Started with 8 eggs (4 brabanter, 4 dominique) The 4 dominique are still kicking, tossed one brabanter, one is kicking and the other 2 are on watch. I love hatching, don't you?
Day 6 and decided to candle this morning to see how the air sacs are. They are nicely stable. 3 of the 4 Brabanter eggs have veining, 4th is iffy. The shells of the Dominique eggs are too dark to see veining, but they are definitley NOT clear or cloudy. I will check again monday night. :D
My understanding, that pertains to shipped eggs. It allows the air cells to reattach and gives a better hatching rate. I really hope these eggs I got yesterday produce something!
Mind if I join? I just set eggs today and am glad I read the article here about shipped eggs! New experience for me and it freaked me out when I did the initial candling and the air cell was a bit sloshy. I use a brinsea mini advance and took the turner out, cut down a cardboard egg carton...