12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along

[BullChick]

I could have sworn I saw one of the eggs move yesterday, but they aren't due until the day before Easter....

I do that too!! I even heard peeping a few nights ago. The worst is hatch day and when you first put chicks outside. A wild bird makes a sound, and you go running!

 

[BullChick]

I just might keep it thanks to yall!

It’s a hard decision to get a new incubator. I like each of mine for different reasons, but fully intended to buy a new one, and sell all of these. Now I’m like, “well, this one is doing fine, and I know all of the quirks of each one. Maybe I should keep them.”

 

[Honora]

More like 100% when I fall in love with it.

I have probably done about 20 hatches at this point and in every case but one, the first chick to hatch was a cockerel.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

It’s a hard decision to get a new incubator. I like each of mine for different reasons, but fully intended to buy a new one, and sell all of these. Now I’m like, “well, this one is doing fine, and I know all of the quirks of each one. Maybe I should keep them.”

Careful, that mentality brought me to like 7 Incubators at some point, lol. Only 4 Incubators will fit on my hatching counter (plus one mini Brinsea) so I finally parted with the others. I sold the mini Brinsea too because did I really need a tiny bator with the other bators? Anyway, last year once I finally narrowed it down to 3 NR360s and 1 IncuView, I broke one of my NR360s. Leave it to me. Lol

 

[BullChick]

I want a Brinsea, but I like this too. I won’t get another until I sell what I have... maybe. If one breaks, I need another...

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I want a Brinsea, but I like this too. I won’t get another until I sell what I have... maybe. If one breaks, I need another...
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I have wanted to try an RCom as well. They're so expensive though. Right up there with the Brinsea price point.

 

[BullChick]

If it’s reliable, I’ll pay.

 

[BullChick]

Wait, wait, wait! @BirdsBeesTrees I can’t hatch in that incubator?! That is crazy, how do they say it?

 

[Chickeria]

Candled yesterday (day 14).
From my 15 bantam silkie eggs two glowed clearly and I took them out (eggtopsy showed one was not fertilized and in the other was a tiny pale embryo, perhaps sadly quitting around day 5). From the 13 developing eggs in the incubator 1 does have a saddle cell.
From my friend's 20 bantam Brahma x Deutsches Buschhuhn-mixes eggs 5 of the rose-brown shelled eggs glowed clearly and I took them out (eggtopsy showed 4 were not fertilized, one did have a tiny grey point, perhaps sadly quitting day 2). Some of the blue and green shelled eggs I could make out (with difficulty) veining but many of them I couldn't make out anything other than normal looking aircells except one green egg even didn't show an aircell, just: darkness. So now I'm sniffing in the incubator every time I refill water and hope to catch possible sulfur smells in time.

 

[CSolis]

Candled yesterday (day 14).
From my 15 bantam silkie eggs two glowed clearly and I took them out (eggtopsy showed one was not fertilized and in the other was a tiny pale embryo, perhaps sadly quitting around day 5). From the 13 developing eggs in the incubator 1 does have a saddle cell.
From my friend's 20 bantam Brahma x Deutsches Buschhuhn-mixes eggs 5 of the rose-brown shelled eggs glowed clearly and I took them out (eggtopsy showed 4 were not fertilized, one did have a tiny grey point, perhaps sadly quitting day 2). Some of the blue and green shelled eggs I could make out (with difficulty) veining but many of them I couldn't make out anything other than normal looking aircells except one green egg even didn't show an aircell, just: darkness. So now I'm sniffing in the incubator every time I refill water and hope to catch possible sulfur smells in time.

I clearly see air cells in my EE eggs but they are so dense it's hard to see anything else. The blue coloring goes all through the shell and not just a coating on the outside. I'm doing the same as you, daily sniff test... don't want stinky eggs in the bator. Other than that it's a wait and see.. 7 days to go... Where's my paper bag?