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I wish I had some better photos but all I have for now is my profile picture. She's an all white hen.

I woke up this morning and I had a super low temperature spike in the eggs that could have been for hours. Now I'm running the temperature high, at 100-102 to try and save what I can. So, I'm trying to figure out just how long it takes for the temperature recorded at the egg shell to reach the...

I had my incubator stable for hours before hand and then I put 2 dozen eggs in. Now part of them are too hot and some of them are too cold. The hot ones are 103 degrees going on 104 and the cold ones are 89 degrees!! I moved the colder ones closer to the heat lamp (home made incubator). I had...

While one of my birds was hatching, I had a humidity drop and it dried her fur into an odd position. I think it pulled her eyelids back, so now her eye sockets look like black holes... Maybe when she fluffs up it'll grow back into position? I'm not sure what to do, as these are my first birds...

Last night was the 17th day of incubation. Suddenly I heard a chick chirping inside the egg ! That was at 10:00 last night. It's now almost 8:00 the next day and I think the chick is in trouble. I hear occasional peeping but not like the frequent chirping I heard last night. I haven't seen not...

Hello all. I have been given 30 eggs to incubate. All the bantam eggs have been in constant hot temperatures - 102 degrees ! 2 less than damaging temps. Most of the time 98 degrees though. However, only 5 chicks are developing !! It will be day 7 on august 29. I've been instructed to leave them...

Hello all !!! My family was blessed to get some FREE bantam, duck, and standard eggs. 2 ducks, about 17 bantams and 9 or so standards. I figured since I didn't post this thread before hand I would expand the time. I hope I find some hatching buddies !!! But I think the standard eggs are in...

Hello There. I'm incubating some brown eggs, and am on day six today (7/24/12). I BELIEVE they would be described as "Buff Orpington" shade eggs. They are from Whole Foods, so think of them as Barred Rock, RIR eggs. Most of them look like Golden Buff (Which is Red Star, golden sex link...

On day 5 with my eggs. One of them on day three had the blood island and the spider veins. Later that day it died. All the rest have just yolk. Some of them I see a small black dot on the sife of the yolk. Could they be slow developers? I'll wait until day seven but still would like some advice.

Please keep this in one place https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/688925/my-whole-foods-hatch-journey-updated-on-7-20-12

On day 2. Trying to see the "blood island" forming, but only seeing a dark blob at the top of the shell (when I hold it upright) it moves a little bit. Is it dead? What does this mean?

I have 2 thermometers. One from PetSmart that I got with a hygrometer, and one from Meijer. The Meijer one is for fish and has metal spheres on the bottom (it's in a glass tube) that have solid mercury (yeah solid! At least I think mercury. It's red, so.. I'm guessing YES.) and the thermometer...

I'm getting some Amish farm eggs and popping em in the bator. I'm gonna buy 2 cartons, one for incubating and one to crack some open and check for fertility. Maybe even put the other carton in after the first hatches, see if I have any luck. :3 WHO'S WITH MEH ?!

These Whole Foods eggs are 76 hours into incubation (just over 3 days) and when I candle, I see NADA. Zip. Zero. Zilch. I see some things that look like veins, but how do I know that isn't the egg shell pattern? When I cracked one open today I looked at the shell and it had lines imprinted in...

How much surface area should I have in my incubator? Right now there are 6 contact lenses caps, so about 6 inches of surface water directly under the heat lamp that evaporate fast and one bowl about 4 inches of surface area off to the side that hasn't gone down much since day 1 (it's 12:16, so...

I only did one egg so far. I could see it at the pointy egg just a shadow that went across about almost half the egg. Is the embryo dead?

My eggs surface only feels lukewarm. The thermometer reads 90 for the ones in the back, farther from the heat lamp (this is fine with me, they'll still hatch) and the ones nearer to the light read about 101 degrees.... One near the back he has a third row to hisself) is almost... Cold... Not...

Hey! Thanks for taking a look at my little "blog". The first WHOLE LOT of posts turned out to be a failure due to poop thermometers and lack of experience. You CAN read them, but I started again with proper equipment and it's probably much more interesting. Hi there. I live in Michigan...

I put some whole foods eggs in my homemade incubator today. Some of the eggs went to 110 degrees F for at MOST 25 minutes... The top of them was just really warm. It's day 1, can I candle them and see which ones are still viable?

Going to get my eggs soon. Had them shipped in this morning, super fresh. They'll be refrigerated for a few minutes till' I get there. How long should I wait until I put them in the incubator?