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So glad you got a good 'un!!! and after seeing where you live, perhaps the mention of evening was wrong.
So glad you had a succesful hatch!!! How many more to go?
Hihi, yep the time difference hahaha it's 23.00 hours overhere...
5 to go, 4 have a pip, not quit sure about number...
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So glad you got a good 'un!!! and after seeing where you live, perhaps the mention of evening was wrong.
So glad you had a succesful hatch!!! How many more to go?
Status is the same since 1 o'clock... so hard to sit on my hands.
So, I'll post some pictures!!!
and two shipped eggs that hatched, and one from my flock:
now to facebook...
I take the rails out -- do not want to hinder the little guys from getting out!
two of the are shipped eggs!!!
three more eggs have pipped
total of 9 more to hatch!
pictures coming soon.
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I have a hygrometer, which I faithfully watched the first hatch. Now that I'm at my 4th hatch, I just toss the thing in there once or twice a week, to make sure the bator isn't too dry. When lockdown occurs, I add the water and a wet cloth below the basket, and when the window fogs up...
Candled last night! There are 20 developing well, with one more that looks like it is developing, but isn't quite right (maybe my inexperience) and 4 that look clear. I'll recheck the ones that look clear on the 10th just to be sure. Of the 13 shipped eggs 9 look good.
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For lockdown, I fill the water compartments up, then place a shammie type cloth (got 'em at Trader Joe's) on the floor, set the basket of eggs on top of that, then put the lid back on. Typically the window fogs up a little bit around the edges and I call that good. Since it is hard to...
For the fun of it, I candled a few eggs last night, mainly to see if the shipped eggs were doing ok. Picked up the egg #1, and noticed a long crack in it!!! and when candled, saw veins!! but the aircell is loose and large for the age of the egg. Will it hatch?? We are only on day 6 or 7...
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One of my hens is broody, so yes, I do have multiple hatch dates. If I name the hen Brinsea can I use her for the contest??
The Brinsea FB page sure is filling up with April hatches! All the newborn cuties are amazing!!
Staceykins, bummer on the eggs ... will be...
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Oh well. I'll still play along for the company though.
If it makes you feel better, that is what most of us are doing here anyhow... the odds of winning seems to be slimmer each month!
I got EGGS!!!! REAL Orpington eggs!!! I'm soooo excited!! Time to upgrade from hatchery...
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My husband enabled me!! thanks for the well wishes.
Should be getting some shipped eggs at the end of this week... will come back and give you the dates and such when I know them.
Have a Brinsea Eco 20, and have had 3 very succesful hatches so far.