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What would I do without you! Haha

Omg you’re totally right. I was calibrating in the wrong direction. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

I literally calibrated it -9° and it shot up to 102°. 🙄 What the heck? I seem to have honed in by setting the room temp to 80-85 and the set temp to 96.5° and then it finally drops to 99.5° on the trusted therm. Not sure why it’s doing this with both of my incuviews but I guess as long as I can...

The room is about 72 and I have the darn thing set to room temp “80-85”. And it’s happening with both of them. So annoying!

Gah! Stopped getting notifications and got way behind again! Hope everyone has been having awesome hatches. I have 2 incuviews full of eggs right now. Due on the 27th and 28th. Set almost 30 of my own eggs and only had 3 clears. Pretty excited by that. Can’t wait for the first babies from my...

Pic of my cute little OE from Sky Girl Farms. So in love. On another note, I recently put my 3 EE pullets that are almost at the point of laying in with my Ameraucana Cockerel. Well...i don’t know what I was thinking. I assumed they would lay green, not blue like my Ameraucanas!! And then I...

RIP little fella. I opened the egg because I’m way too impatient apparently and he had passed. His little beak was pressing up into the air cell like he had tried to internally pip with no luck. Pretty sure it was a wing over head malpo. 5/6 locked down hatching is my best success rate yet tho.

See I was thinking that too - maybe the awful air cell is making it hard to turn. I am just kind of worried about it since the egg was wiggling more than I’ve ever seen an egg wiggle last night. I thought for sure it would be hatched when I woke up this morning... So they can still hatch on...

That sounds rational. I am going to sit on my hands. Why is that so hard for me?!

Ok I need opinions. What would you do - 5/6 eggs that entered lockdown have hatched. I was 99.9% sure the egg that hasn’t hatched was dead at lockdown, but last night it was wiggling all over the place! I tried Candling but it’s a very dark Marans egg with a horrible air cell that goes down the...

Awe I’m sorry to hear about the chick you need to put down. 😭 It sucks. I had to put down the 2 with messed up navels. One last night and one this morning. Sigh. On another note, I set 26 of my own eggs - BBS Ameraucanas and Olive Eggers. My very first time setting my own eggs. Yay! And I...

Update: the first chick I assisted is still wobbly in the brooder but still accepting nutridrench in water from a syringe. The chick with the navel that was closed but looked super weird is not doing so good. It does appear to have a slipped tendon as well and can’t get around. I think I’ll have...

Still just 1 pip in the Sky Girl eggs. I’m setting 26 of my own eggs whenever I get my assist babies out of the incubator so either tonight or tomorrow so those will have a hatch day of the 26th or 27th and be BBS Ameraucanas and Olive Eggers. Sky Girl Farms is sending me a dozen eggs for half...

Yeah I think this was my issue. I had them in our guest room and for some reason that room gets weirdly warm sometimes and the incuview wouldn’t adjust for it so I was constantly fiddling with it. I did my first hatch in our kitchen and had no issues with having to adjust it. So everyone is just...

Yes so true. I like the way you think about it. I probably won’t be able to help myself helping in the future either. Lol. It’s just hard when I feel like I’ll probably have to cull these 2. I hate doing that. And yes I’ve been having a hard time regulating the temp in my incuviews. They swing...

😫 Poor baby. Thanks.

Not sure I’ll be assisting again for a while after this unless they’ve pipped on their own. On a happy note, one of my 3 Sky Girl Farms Black Ameraucana eggs has pipped.

@CluckNDoodle What do you think the prognosis is for the one that has that but of yolk sticking out? Will the hole maybe close around it and that part just dry up and fall off? What do I do?

Update on my 3 assists. The one I got out yesterday is in the brooder with the others. He is more wobbly than a normal chick and I can hear/feel a little click when he breaths. He is happily drinking nutri-drench and the others aren’t bothering him, so we will see. I got the other 2 out of...