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LU-U-U-U-v i-i-i-t!!!!!

I'm beaming positive hatching vibes your way ...... beam .... beam .... beam ....

That said, I know oh so well the "itch" that sets in waaaaay before even day 6! The days up to the first candling, for me, are only exceeded in degree of torment by lockdown days before hatch! I just locked down on 30 eggs due on the 6th ... I'm already fighting the urge every 15 minutes to...

I'd go with day 7 rather than sooner. I candle on day 8 and usually by then I can tell the culls from the growing chicks. The chicks have a nice web of veins, are developing an identifiable mass, and are often moving. Culls will either have a blood ring or be clear. I've candled earlier than...

Because the chicks rest the longest overnight, if they rest on the same side every night it can lead to abnormalities (flattened spots on heads, atrophied wing, etc.). That's why you need to turn them an odd number of times. If you mark one side with an X and make sure the x is up at night on...

Others may have a different experience with this, but I've never worried about using my bare hands to handle an egg. I candle them at day 8, day 12, and day 16 to find culls (no exploding eggs here, thank you very much!! ), and I don't think it's impacted my hatch rate, which is consistently...

I hatched a double yolker in my second ever hatch, but only one chick made it, and he was soooo tiny. The other chick was dead in the shell, and it looked like it tried to internally pip on the wrong end and drowned. I didn't even realize it was a double yolker until over halfway through...