LittleChicks4Me
Songster
- Oct 24, 2014
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My fingers are crossed for you! Did you candle before lockdown?
For my first hatch, I had my ear glued to the incubator desperately hoping for a peep. I had heard all these stories of rocking and peeping eggs. My eggs were deathly silent. I was convinced the hatch was a bust. The first thing I noticed near the end of day 21 was a teeny, tiny chip missing on one egg--a chip the size of the head of a pin. I only noticed because the shell was brown and I had the eggs on white paper towels. All evening, nothing more happened but that one, lone missing chip. When I work up the next morning, there was a chick in the incubator.
Yes, and the water dance test. I could still see red blood veins and movement in 2 for sure. One had a bigger air cell due to shipping i think, but there is something in it as well. Just seemed smaller, but still saw a few blood veins. So that one is uncertain. but two are heavy and filled eggs.