1st Time to hatch chicks

Lostchicken

Songster
8 Years
Sep 21, 2016
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Paris, Tx
I have never hatched any kind of bird before. These are my first try. I started with 14 in my Brisea 2 Advanced. I came out with 9 eggs that had chicks in them when I candled them of course that was my first time to do that too. I have a 5 cell flash light that I taped a empty toilet paper roller to the top of it and set the eggs on top of it so I could see the embryo. My first chick hatched on 4/20/18 about 4:00pm and the second one hatched about 10:00pm and now I had one hatch about 3:00pm and another one about 4:00pm. I still have 5 more to go and one of them has pecked a hole thru the egg shell so it may no be long. I have a brooder for them and the ones that hatched yesterday are in the brooder and doing fine. This is chick #1.
 

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Chick #3
 

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Chick #4 All are doing fine for now and #3 and 4 will stay in the incubator until tomorrow and hopefully #5 will come on.
 

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Congratulations on your babies! They are so cute!

I have set 14 eggs that are due to hatch May 3rd. I can see definite development in 12/14 of them and embryos moving in the ones that aren't Easter Eggers (I find it impossible to see very well through their shells.) I am so excited! It is my first time hatching, so hopefully everything goes well.
 

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