Yup still have the bator running, was glad I had a backup kuz my good one the fan went out. Eggs went into the backup for about 3 days while I waited on a replacement fan and now we are still in business. Hatch should start on Sunday give or take lockdown is Thursday. Just backyard mutts but...
I put a few more in last sunday........ ok so for the record 31 is a few right? Lol when I candled last night all of my dark ones and all of my green ones showed signes of developmemt but only half or so of my delaware and dark Cornish cross eggs looked promising...... time will tell
I am so sorry for your loss.
Up until this last couple of hatches I fought some incubator issues and ended up with too many DIS for my comfort. I am hoping that going forward it will continue to be better.
I turn into a nervous nellie when I have babies taking their time..... I have found the hands on hatching thread to be very helpful for me, but I am a hands on sort.
My final numbers on the shipped bielefelder eggs are 10 live babies 3 boys 7 girls the youngest one is still having some trouble staying upright it seems that one leg is stronger than the other? She keeps ending up on her side I don't have a pic of her but here is 2 girls and 2 boys! the boys...
so far there are 8 babies running around the brooder one more drying off in the bator and one last one still working on getting out. 10? out of 12 is not a bad hatch for shipped eggs. I did have one pip fine but died in zip wth?? and one egg that went into lockdown that was just dead.....
Went into lockdown with 12 shipped bielefelder eggs last night. Started with 17 and pulled 5 clears. As I understand it that's not bad for shipped eggs.
So for my first batch of shipped eggs I feel things are going ok..... the air cells are wonky, but that's to be expected. I made sure to buy from as close as I could but still the post office is hard on eggs.... I paid for 12 and the guy shipped 17, yeah, today is day 10 and I pulled 5, one with...