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Well, I ended up with 3 marans. And 1 barnyard mix. There are 2 pips working on zipping in the second batch. I'm a bit disappointed, out of 16 marans eggs in the first batch that is not a good rate :( after candling and listening to one of the eggs that is quite a bit over due I checked it out...

Two chicks out last night, today is day 21 (for most of the eggs) so I'm expecting quite a few babies today :) just realized that I'm going to have quite the time telling apart my black copper marans from my barnyard mix for a while, my rooster is a black austrolorp x RIR cross so most of the...

Day 20. First pip!!!

Aaannd lockdown! Day 18 is here marans are in lockdown. (Decided to put everyone in lockdown, a day early won't hurt anything!) I am using cardboard egg cartons to keep the eggs in position, out of curiousity does anyone else have experience doing this? -good, bad, advice? I just feel like...

Hey a marans friend! good luck!

I've heard peeping on day 19 and hatches on day 20, you will probably hear the eggs wiggling before anything I did! I was looking around for what was making the noise around the room before I figured out it was the eggs wiggling lol

No it will not drown the chicks if you add water, humidity should be higher during lockdown, just make sure you don't open incubator long, and use warm water so the temp doesn't get affected much. Good luck!

I'm on day 15/16 can't wait! Candled today, 25 remaining eggs pulled out a few clear ones,but everything else looks promising Finge, give the chick a little time it's just figuring out life :) sounds normal to me.

Those air cells look perfect!

Hello! I'm a little late to join but I have some September babies due as well. I put 16 Black Copper, Blue Copper and Splash Marans and two Speckled Sussex that I purchased from a local breeder in the incubator on 8/25 and then put 10 of my own barnyard mix in on 8/26, a bit of a stagger but I...