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We have made it to day 14!! we have 10 left in the bator when last candled lots of movement happening!! gonna leave them alone then candle once more before lock down. can't wait for the little fuzzy butts!!

ok candled all of them the other night and we have 11 definently developing saw them moving and everything. We took out the rest because they were clear and definently nothing happening in them.

we candled last night and 9 for sure are developing!!! we saw the veins and embryo and black dot that I think is supposed to be the eye forming!!!! there are a few others that are questionable so we are going to give them a few more days before discarding them. this is so exciting!! almost...

thank goodness we haven't lost power...eggs still nice and warm. can't wait to see how many are developing!

Quote: yeah we candled a few it really didn't show anything at all. we are going to wait until sunday to candle them all, by then surely something will be developing we are still on a good track. I think the lowest the temp has gotten so far was this morning at 99.1*. that shouldn't be...

Quote: well thank you for the encouragement! I certainly won't expect a perfect hatch, but hopefully I will have a good turn out we are on day 3 now so I think we will candle them to see how things are going since I don't have to work tonight and won't really have the time after today...

here they are! it's about time to turn #2 for the day we started out with them just on the grate, but boy are they rolly-polies..so I had to figure something out so turning was quicker and easier. so i cut up a flat and cut the bottoms out and then lay them sideways instead of up and down...

we seem to be on a good track so far. once we turn the eggs it takes about 5 minutes for things to level out and get back to normal in the bator. if we work together we can turn all 21 in about 30 seconds or so, or if I am by myself, a little under a minute. I love having the bator in the...

we candles all of the eggs that we have gotten over the past 3 days and out of all of them, 21 were good for hatching (others were too pourous) so we set them last night around 9pm. but some were still a little cold from being in the coop. the temp finally seemed right around 12 last night and...

We have been tweeking and fine tuning our homemade incubator and I think we just might have it! at first we were having issues with too much of a temp swing with the wiggler, but we put a dimmer switch on the constant bulb and that seems to do the trick! we have a more constant temp now, with...