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THIS is NOT an Ayam Cemani.... I'm thinking my Silkie girls aren't freeloading slackers after all, and this was after an accidental visit to Mr Cochin, because I've got three typical Cemani chicks all laid around the date of this one! (Like this chick was laid 2.6, but 2.3,4,and7 are all Cemani...)

An update on my ongoing hatch - Aracauna mix chick has officially been dubbed Kamikaze due to highly energetic yet completely uncoordinated stumbling around the incubator. As for the Ayam Cemani eggs: the four that had not pipped yet still have not, although saw movement on three of them. Of...

New link because I had to reset the feed - https://www.pscp.tv/w/1LyxBNmDWZExN The little chipmonk is a Aracauna crossed with either RIR or Standard Cochin (I'm leaning RIR because of color). The other eggs are Ayam Cemani. The four in "front" all have internal pips, the four in back do not.

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1gqGvEPAEPjKB - Live feed via Periscope. Almost all the Ayam Cemani eggs are looking good, with two internal pips, and only one I am really unsure about it hatching. Of course, my 9th egg, a Aracauna/X which is actually on day 20 and not 21 like the others, has externally...

🤬🤬🤬🤬! Our power went out this morning at my house, with an estimate of 8pm to get it back on. So of course I pack up everything in a mad rush and set it back up in my horse barn. Checked three of the eggs in lockdown and all were moving so😅 And of course I get the notification that power has...

And that's my thing, I dont want to "waste" more money on additional cameras, when I have two old phones laying around that do a better job that the $100 camera! Plus, I just had to buy more camera equipment for my photography biz, and I I'm still in pain from it, lol

I have 9 eggs in lockdown as of last night! 8 Ayam Cemani, 1 Aracauna/X. I always set late in the evening, so should start seeing things the evening of the 25th, into the day of the 26th. I will post a link to the live feed via Periscope (probably starting in the morning of the 25th) when I get...

Checking in - I lost my curled toe AC chick this morning. I had it in a separate brooder with its sibling, and it just never thrived. I still have 4 healthy chicks out of 6 though, so I'm happy with that, and on a funny note, I somehow have created an Aracauna/X cross that is (as of now)...

This is what I did to my NR360 - it greatly reduced the light leakage, focusing the light to the egg. (Please pardon the dust, lol) This was very effective for my lighter colored eggs, but the light on the NR360 is maybe 200L, so not very strong. Now for my harder to see-through eggs, I used...

Five out of six are hatched! The sixth was confirmed DIS, but for my first hatch of the year, and my Ayam Cemani's very first eggs, I'm pleased. Now I have 10 due the 25th, and as soon as these guys are ready to move to the brooder, 34 eggs for the March hatch-a-long.....

You have a Nurture Right? My top tip to greatly improve the built-in candler is to use black electrical tape to cover the white plastic around the light, which stops light bleed. As for seeing through darker eggs, all you can do is get a much brighter light, and just hope...

If anyone is interested I was able to get a shareable live-feed going. It's via Periscope because Youtube won't let me live-stream until tomorrow - https://www.pscp.tv/AshBrooks1220/1eaJbQMgRaoGX

Oh and I had to run up to Rural King for..... stuff, and they had black copper Maran pullets for $5, so I got 6. If my family asks, I totally hatched those from my own eggs.... 🤫🤪🤭🤥

The egg stank like crazy, I actually had to throw it out the back door to get it out of my house! I don't have chlorhexidine, but the umbilical was very well healed at hatch, and I'm definitely going to keep an eye on it. Baby is doing very well, so I'm hopeful.

Just did a partial-assist on my third egg - it internally pipped well over 24 hours ago and long before the two that have hatched, but no external pip and the cheeping was getting weaker. I carefully opened up at the air sack, found where the chick had pipped, but no sign of a beak. Peeled back...

Second Aracauna/? baby hatched! Smells horribly of rotten egg though, which is a first for me...

First baby is out! Second baby is unzipping as we speak and I'm having to sit on my hands to not just pop the top off the egg for it!

I was candling these guys to make sure they are still moving, and this one pipped while I was holding it!

Out of my four due "today" (day 21 started at about 5 pm) I have three definitely confirmed internal pips, one I'm pretty sure of, and two of the chicks are peeping at me from inside the shell! And the two eggs that are due "tomorrow" are doing the tarantella inside their shells! I'm still...

Well, I did my day 20 candle, and all six eggs that made it to the hatcher are looking good! I have one Ayam Cemani that I think may be internally pipped by morning, as well as an Aracauna/X that's actually a day behind but looks like it's getting ready to pip too. But what I really came to...