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Sorry that happened. I have been hearing a lot of people are having Issues with dry incubation lately. I wonder if there is someone going one with weather that is affecting it... I would probably order a few more like Draig suggested. Good luck with whatever you choose to do!

28 days.

You need to post in the broody thread. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/457488/old-fashioned-broody-hen-hatch-a-long-and-informational-thread/12580#post_9391896

Awwwwwwwww! Cuteness overload! Cuteness overload!

Hope you gve those kiids a good sit down. Grrrrrr...

x2!!

I am inside city limits otherwise I would have had a roo or two a long time ago. There is a local BYCer that has offered to sell me some of her eggs. I will just need to wait a day or so for them to be laid. :)

Soooo disappointed right now. Every egg was rotten. Now to find local hatching eggs...

Well, that was a gross discovery. Summer had shuffled a half crushed egg in front of her. It was rotten through and through. Thankfully the membrane hadn't ruptured so it didn't start leaking until after I got it out of the coop. I wanted to see if there had been a chick in it but all I...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261876/chicks-are-here-egg-candling-pics-progression-though-incubation This is what they should look like, but I am having trouble seeing it... Don't know if it is the eggs or my untrained eye.

So far so good, but I don't think either of the eggs in the incubator are developing. :/. I can see the air sac and there may be a dark spot but it may just be where I put the light. I will probably candle again on Monday. I will probably try candling the eggs under Summer tomorrow night...

Welcome chickengrit! I am working with mailed eggs too. I worry every day how good the hatch will be. :/

Need advise, it looks like my other bantam brahma is going broody. I caught her sitting with Summer and she had stolen two eggs. I dislodged her, got pecked by summer in the process, and blocked her access to Summer. How long til I know if she is really going broody or is just playing at...

This was actually just asked in the old fashioned broody thread; 5 days at earliest for a novice but they said not to chuck unless you are sure the egg isnt viable. Some will look like they aren't doing anything and will end up hatching.

I was on the old broody/ hatching thread and someone mentions that you almost will almost never see them move but they do get up to eat and poo at least once a day. Lots of people make their hen get up and out at least once a day though. I put extra food and water in the coop, just to help...

Thanks, I think I will need it! The eggs sat for an extra day over the 4th, though I paid extra for a cooling pack to combat the heat for a whle. We'll see. :/

Forgot to mention, this is my first ever hatch! Tamryc- sooooo jealous right now! I love the splash coloring, I am thinking next time I do this of going for a breed with splash coloring!

So glad I found this thread!! I swapped 14 D'Anver eggs under my broody bantam brahma on the 6th. She kicked out two and I put those in a micro bator! I figure one of the incubator eggs has a fifty fifty shot between shipping and being kicked out of the nest. It's still so early but I am...