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Dog is working his way into the brooder too:

So it’s the end of day 21, I have 7 bouncing chicks and 6 eggs left. I candled cause I couldn’t help myself, I see drawn down air cells in all but nothing else, these shells are so dark. I don’t hear anything. How long should I wait? I don’t want to kill chicks that only needed a few more hours...

Yes it sure did! Mine shot up to 70% and the bator beeped at me, I opened a vent and got it down to 55-60. Still just had four chickies at 5am, then at 7 I have six! One of the ameraucanas popped open so at least I have one of each type. I was TOLD they were pure, now I don’t know as two of the...

Yay! Hatched my first chick! Four more hatched by the end of the day! Cant believe I haven’t done this before!!

Thanks that’s awesome! I looked at your marans pics and mine definitely look like egg #1, I did see that layering effect. For now I am assuming them all to be fertile based on the fact that all the ones that I CAN check clearly are...time will tell!!

Yah I’ve definitely seen darker shells but these are pretty dark, good thick shells too and no like speckles from thin spots. I do have a big halogen work lamp and I’m thinking of making a box with a hole in it for the next time I peek at the eggies, I can’t think of anything brighter than that

Yay I can finally join a hatch a long!!! I set 15 eggs 3/27, I bought them locally and got a mix, (mixed eggs, breeds are separated), of ameraucana, chantecler and marans, and added five of my own to my brand new incubator. I candled all on day three, the Chanteclers were obviously progressing...