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3 chickens on late afternoon on day 22 now - 2 are peeing away and the 3rd is quiet but has movement. Waiting is hard!

This morning has not gone well - one duck that was alive yesterday died, and the last egg is facing away from the air sac (I posted a separate thread for help with that). Fingers crossed for the chickens today - day 21. No external pips or peeps or rocking. Not sure this will go well. :(

This is my 2nd hatch - the last round was just ducks and I had to help them out on day 30 and 31. Variety of issues Im chalking up to shipped eggs, but of course I set shipped eggs again. Sigh. You'd think at least 1 of the 5 would have an external pip by now but I know its still early.

Well Im down an egg. I candled for internal pips (yes I know, and I'm the first person to tell you NOT to do this), but glad I did because one egg had liquified since lockdown (I'm sure it was dead prior but it's hard to tell with brown eggs). I opened the air cell to confirm and it was just...

End of day and no external pips. :( waiting stinks.

I have 6 eggs in the incubator, 2 ducks on day 28 and 4 lavender orpingtons on day 20. The suspense is killing me! No external pips yet, but it's my 2nd duck hatch and I know they are slow and its not time yet for the chickens. Who is waiting with me? What day are you on? :D