6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

I have the flu. I've gotten WAY behind over the last few days. Right now I'm "only" 16 pages behind... perhaps I can catch up before candling tonight!

On the bright side, I haven't been at all tempted to candle early, lol.
 
Hmmm.... A slight bit of light candling on my remainder eggs (not due for official candling until Saturday, so it's not official) shows 4 BLRW eggs looking kinda not doing anything. Everybody else seems to have nice dark yolks. Not a see-through glowy marans anywhere. I may get a blue bird or two after all! :) :) :)

(yay Brinsea!)
 
So, is today official candling day? The candling cheaters are candling today and cheating already on the day 14 candling.

Are we supposed to post our results? I have a feeling I'm about five days behind everyone else...but I didn't cheat! LOL!!
 
So, is today official candling day? The candling cheaters are candling today and cheating already on the day 14 candling.

Are we supposed to post our results? I have a feeling I'm about five days behind everyone else...but I didn't cheat! LOL!!

I was under the impression that Day 7 was a candling day. Otherwise, why have a Day 7 demarcation on the air cell chart?
 
So, is today official candling day? The candling cheaters are candling today and cheating already on the day 14 candling.

Are we supposed to post our results? I have a feeling I'm about five days behind everyone else...but I didn't cheat! LOL!!
It is not required but we do like to see how things are going.

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Good luck all!

Soon we will have





 
I have the flu. I've gotten WAY behind over the last few days. Right now I'm "only" 16 pages behind... perhaps I can catch up before candling tonight!

On the bright side, I haven't been at all tempted to candle early, lol.


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Wow. What is it like to have such self control??? I can't go near hatching eggs, cookies or chocolate. It's just not safe.
 
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Finally caught up!!

Happy birthday @Book!!

After all the chatter in here about candling, I did mine tonight. Glad I did.
Don't ask what I was (or wasn't) wearing, you likely don't want to know
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@Roan sounds like you need to stay away from Free Ranges house on candling day too
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The iPhone camera worked beautifully!! Much better on the dark eggs than my LED torch (except a few that were still too dark).
Pulled 4 blood rings, left in a few questionables that aren't obvious risks and was happy to see veining and progress in 15 eggs, some even moved!!
I know Ron suggested leaving eggs in until they smell or leak, but I can't risk this hatch for the sake of a few eggs (which were obvious blood rings).

I'm incubating Barnevelder eggs that were posted across the country and not a cheap loss if I lose them all to an exploding egg. I started with 34 set, but pulled out 11 weepers in the first few days. I'm happy with seeing 15 definitely progressing, possibly more, because my last lot of Barnevelder's set had so many infertiles.

Only two weeks to go!!
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