Illia I am sorry to hear about your hatch. I am thinkin I may be following in your footsteps though. I had 9 eggs go into lockdown - 7 pm tonight is the end of day 22. Yesterday two hatched and 4 pipped around 3pm. This morning they were still the same, no further pipping, no more hatched...
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I locked down tonight, and there are 9 eggs in there that look really good. Out of 20 shipped eggs..... Ok, I guess. I dropped two and one was busted on arrival - there was 1 that was clearly not fertile, so that leaves 7 eggs that were early quitters. Not too bad I suppose for...
Here we go! Lockdown is Friday night. I had enough nerve to candle ONE egg tonight and it is like it should be. A big blob with an air cell.
PS - my turner broke for three days and I work full time so turning was darned near impossible. Ken fixed it and all is going well tonight.
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Either way they will hatch, however, putting them in egg cartons keeps the hatchlings from tossing the remaining eggs all over the bator. I cut mine inidivdually...
Today is day 5 and I candled the polish eggs and they all have veining and I even saw one eyeball!!!! Thanks to silkiechicken AWESOME thread with the those AWESOME pics, I now know what to look for!
I think I boo-boo'd. I turned the bator temp up for lockdown because it wouldn't stay high enough and forgot to turn it down - I set 20 eggs Monday night and the temp has been 101.4 until last night when I finally realized why the temp was so high. Please tell me 24 hours at that temp isn't...