Yes, to me, it looks like it is dry to the shell, but the humidity has been maintained 65% to 70% this entire time since day 18. It also has some kind of weird wet look to the other end of the egg, like something from inside made it wet - is that normal?
Today is the actual due date, but yesterday, we managed to witness 5 hatches... by this morning, we have 9... 5 more to go! One bad thing - we have one that looks stuck in it's shell. I think it may be deformed. It zipped completely but will not come out of the shell - looks stuck... what...
We have our first pip on the first batch of 14. This is my first time hatching anything, so needless to say, I can't stop watching... how am I going to get work done today?
My update - this is my first hatch ever:
Started with 32 eggs... had to toss a few that were clear (of course, that left room in the incubator for a second batch which then led to a third, so I have a second Hovabator 1588 coming as a hatcher... okay guys, this is truly a sickness :
At any...
Count me in, I haven't been here for a long time, but I have my Hovabator genesis coming any day now, and we're going for blue-egg laying Americaunas (we have hens and a roo - only collecting the blue eggs), and we are going for blue cochin/americauna mixes as well so collecting the blue...