Thanks - I hope so...
You can find food coloring at any grocery store.
The bingo dots are like a bottle of ink w/ a sponge on the end - the Bingo players use this, rather than the red chips these days.
Day 21 is today - hoping that they're just a bit late, but I'm starting to doubt it....
Congrats on your ball player!!
I mark mine with little rubber bands and you can use zip ties as they get a bit bigger
The ones I got from the hatchery had a purple bingo ink dot on their heads - I guess...
Learned the hard way - you should calibrate your hygrometer (check online and it will come up)
Depends on where you live and in house humidity - you want @65% humidity for Day 18-hatch
I leave both my little red plugs out.
LOL
Hopefully, I can live vicariously through you, since you're a day ahead of me!!
Get that brooder fired up and at temp, just in case!!
Hoping for some really cute babies w/ beards!! (and a good percentage of pullets!!)
This last hatch, I hatched in cut down egg cartons b/c I had several drown when they got kicked and the pip was face down....
Worked like a charm! I'd say they have to work a little harder to get out, but the other eggs didn't budge one bit!
You can mark it many ways!
I use little colored rubber bands and then zip ties when they get bigger
You could also put a bingo ink dot on their head, if he/she is a lighter color (that's what McMurray did with my shipped chicks)
I have eggs for the 23rd!
14 EE
Candled last night and 12 look GREAT!
Hope they all make it to the end!!
I also set eggs last night to hatch on April 7th
20 BLRW
7 Black Copper Marans
8 Blue Copper Marans