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Well it turned out mostly ok. I have 9 healthy chicks out of the 14 I put in lockdown. Two of the 14 had died a few days before I opened them and the other three died during the hatching procedure as a result of shrink wrapping. I maintained humidity at 45% for the first 18 days and then...

Well it turned out mostly ok. I have 9 healthy chicks out of the 14 I put in lockdown. Two of the 14 had died a few days before I opened them and the other three died during the hatching procedure as a result of shrink wrapping. I maintained humidity at 45% for the first 18 days and then...

Hi there. Any help would be appreciated. This is my first batch and I am not having an easy first experience. Of the 14 I put into lockdown at a calibrated temperature of 37.7 and 65% humidity 7 have now hatched. I have 3 others that have pipped but then stopped and have not moved for 12 hrs...

We'll we have one chick out now. He is loudly cheeping and bashing around in the incubator...it is hard not to open it. There are three others which have pipped and two others I have seen rocking around and heard cheeping. I am worried all the same...what about the other 10 which seem to be just...

Going to candle them tonight and then put them into lock down. We are at the end of day 17. Crazy that this is happening. I just really hope they hatch.

Well, we had to go out of town for 24 hrs and I didn't turn the eggs for that time so I was all nervous coming home. But the incubator was holding steady with temp and humidity and I candled the eggs again and still have 14 that are developing. I can no longer see the embryo moving but they are...

I candled them again today and now i can see the babies! Hooray! I counted and marked 14 eggs that I am sure had babies in them and where the baby was moving about. Then there were two that may have had babies in them but that didn't look the way the others looked. There were three with blood...

Hi there. I set my first eggs (26 buff orps) on Feb 10 too. I'm using a hovabator, purchased used, and keeping it at 37.7 deg Celsius (that's what we use up here in Canada) and 44% humidity. I turn three times a day. I really feel like I have no idea what is going to happen. I tried candling...