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Alright! So day 21, and I have 5 incredibly adorable and fluffy peeps running around my brooder in the bathroom (yeah we sacrifice our bathroom once a year to chickens.) We still have 4 eggs that are just sitting and doing nothing. I grow more and more suspicious that they are dead :( BUT...

Huh, that's strange that it can't be seen. Here I'll just link it, its on Youtube: At 6am, we had two more chicks decide to hatch, and then one at 8am. What am I going to do with so many chickens? :P

Ok, so we have three more pips, and one drunken chick wandering around the incubator like it's on a bender. Here's a video taken and narrated by my DH. I'm not sure which is cuter, my husband, or the chicken :P

First one hatched just an hour before I get to go home! The little stinker. At least DH was on hand to see the little guy. Here he is taking a breather on his back:

Thanks! I think your babies are just waiting till you're home to see the exciting parts:) And to make you stay awake all night..... but that's another story :P

I snuck home from work to check on the hatching, and it looks like Egg 1 rested for about 6 hours, and just entered the zipping stage! Eeeeeeeeee! What a good baby, holding off until I get home

Omg a pip! It's technically a bit early at day 18, but because I ignored the first half-day that I set, it's really almost day 19. The only problem is that I have to work today, arg! Oh well, maybe the others will hatch when I'm around to see it. If this chick makes it, I'll call it...

Wooohooo lockdown last night at midnight! I'm very nervous about everything because I've been having a lot of problems stabilizing humidity due to our climate here. When I checked this morning, the sponge I had placed in there only brought the humidity up to 59%, then it started dropping...

Wow, I can't believe that so many people have lockdown on the same day as me! So exciting to have hatchmates! After candling yesterday, I believe that I might have one egg with a late death in it. But it's not smelling yet and I have never hatched before, so I'm going to leave it be. So I...

Yay day 11 for my little peeps! I really didn't have high hopes for the viability of the eggs since they were shipped in winter, and I am a novice at incubating. But besides one dud that I dropped and broke at day 5, and the quitter that I just removed last night, all the others look very...

Quote: I fixed that uncertainty by having about 4 thermometers in the incubator at a time (cheap ones for fishtanks at Walmart.) What you're looking for is an average..... also, keep in mind that the thermometers that are closest to the heating element will read higher. You could also go to a...

I'll join! Just got 12 standard Faverolle eggs from NoneSuch Farms. This is my first time hatching, and I'm so excited! I'll either put them in late tonight, or early tomorrow. Edit: Im going to try to keep pictures of my first hatching venture. Got the eggs in the bator, so time for the...