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Ah, but Orps, they sure are four super cute EE's!

Well that settles it...I am going to spend a very long day driving round trip to pick up some hatching eggs. And I only feel slightly crazy for rationalizing the trip. : )

But 3 live! Don't give up! Did you post pics? The four I hatched are all doing great, but four weeks later it looks like I only have one pullet in the batch...maybe two, but I think I'm fooling myself with the possible second one. I thought I was done for the year, but I have a hen that is...

It was super stressful! Kept asking myself why not just buy chicks?! Now, less than a week after hatching I'm positive I will try it again. LOL

Yay for the rallying chicks! When do you consider a chick "out of the woods"?

Cute!! And such clear pics!

122! Ugh, that IS crazy off! Glad you got some chicks in spite of the mold and hopefully the 3 not to feisty will be feisty soon! Glad you

What I read was 24 hours or more...and that it is the carbon dioxide that builds up in the egg causes the muscle contractions to allow the chick to break through the shell. If temps and humidity are good I'd lock em down and let them do their thing, especially if you are only on day 20.

Good news! : ) You are halfway there!

Of course I still don't have a calibrated hygrometer, but I really think too low. I weighed weekly and the average weight going into lockdown was good. It did not take a whole lot to raise the humidity, I taped the lid, and I had a little hole where I could drip water onto the cloth. I also...

The survivors. The three EE/BO chicks. The one on the left is the only one to hatch normally. And he's almost two days ahead of his siblings. The one EE/EE chick, middle left.

Okay, final results are four live chicks. I assisted three of those. Late day 22 I just had a bad, bad feeling after two out of eight had side pips and the first one died. The last few days I had a hard time keeping temps stable. The humidity SAID it was plenty high, but I really question the...

Thanks, subhanalah! I'm second guessing everything at this point.

Day 22...one egg pipped in the wrong end last night...no sign of movement today and there are two other eggs this morning with external pips in the right end so I'm opting for the leave it and see option on the backwards chick. Horrible long night...kept getting up to check the guy that...

Don't you love that feeling when the last hope egg works out? Happened to us last year...then we had to go buy him a couple buddies. lol