Can someone tell me if this egg is hatching or if it's just cracked itself somehow? I mean, it's hatching, right? Why is the crack vertical? In person, you can see a point of crack, so that's the pip?
Sorry, first hatch. Hahaha.
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I think one of the eggs pipped!!!! There's was a hole in it, but theres a long -vertical- crack coming from the hole. It seems to not be moving so I think it's resting to hatch!??!??!?! It's a bantam so it should be the first to go!!
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Nothing from the eggs. I noticed something. Since I moved them to a new room (my mother is visiting in a couple days) the heatbox has dropped to a rather low temp at night. Which is, y'know, not great the last few days. I don't know what to do. I can't really move the heatbox back. I'll be...
Crud, thanks everyone! I figured it was 'wait and see'. How annoying. I don't even want to candle them since it's hatch day and, well, super sunny right now.
Well if this doesn't work I'll try again with a proper incubator. I'm sad. It was a mix of faverolles, buff cochins, gold lace...
Thanks! I'm hoping it's okay! My fiance made a point to tell me Aussie summers get hotter than that box did, but the eggs were SO warm. I thought I saw twitching in the eggs yesterday but I'm not sure, I was kinda staring into a lighted box for 6 hours. Haha.
Oh man, praying! I had some...
I had my eggs under a hen for 17 days when she suddenly freaked and got off of them. I didn't have an incubator so I made one out of a styrofoam box and a 50 watt bulb. So far so good... it was registering a nice temperature, it was a good humity... until last night, day 20. The lid was...