I'm so sad--none of them made it. Not sure what went wrong--I had them in cartons up until day 18--when I went into lockdown, I laid them on their sides. There was movement in all five on day 18. I really think changing the setup is what happened to them. I'm so frustrated that they made it that...
Five are still moving. They go into lockdown tonight. Yesterday I called home twice to have DH check on temps. They have been really hard to keep stable the last few days. I came home from work yesterday and the lid was off the skillet. I almost had a heartattack. I asked DH what happened and he...
Darn--I candled today and I am down to 5. They go on lockdown Wednesday. I had another temp spike and I guess that's happened to them. I'm so hoping to get a least two. I would hate if only one lonely chick hatches. I haven't made my brooder yet--I hate to put alot of work into it and have no...
I will definitely post some pics. I teach school and we have an incubator there, but we were on spring breack when I decided I wanted to do this. I had originally planned to swtich the eggs to the incubator when I got back to school, but when I started actually seeing development, I decided to...
This April 2, on a whim I decided I wanted to get some eggs that would hatch on Easter (for my little grandbabies). I didn't have an incubator, so I Googled homemade incubators and ran across some posts about people using electric skillets. So I went to Craigslist and found some fertile eggs and...