Adventures in Incubating Shipped Eggs

[Morrigan]

I usually wait until day 8 or 9 when I am absolutely, positively sure they are are clears or blood rings before tossing them. Unless they smell of course. A smelly egg is never a good egg!

 

[Morrigan]

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That's a great picture by the way.

 

[koturnix]

Good morning!

I started my day by crouching down and pressing my ear up against the incubator because, well, who doesn't?

No peeps, although I'm pretty sure I could hear something. Like a crinkling, scratching sound.

How is hatch mania going for everyone else?

Haha, I find if I strain my ears hard enough eventually I hear some peeps. In my mind...

2 chicks have hatched so far, 1 from grocery store and 1 from the shipped batch. None of the shipped cracked eggs have hatched.

 

[fur-mum]

So yesterday was day 21. Do they hatch while i'm off work? Noooo, of course not.

Starting to get slightly worried, even though I know that they can take longer than that. Using the broody method, and last year she hatched her babies on day 20. So that was my expectation.

Anyways, today, today we have a bebe!! One of four eggs so far. None shipped, but I wanted to share the squeeee!

 

[Morrigan]

I've had them hatch in bator on day 22 before. Fingers crossed.

Glad you a little one, tho.

 

[Cerise1924]

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Perfection!

 

[Colly1470]

Egg 5 hatched and egg 4 is hatching! That means each one that started developing managed to make it to hatching.

 

[Morrigan]

Egg 5 hatched and egg 4 is hatching! That means each one that started developing managed to make it to hatching.

Yay!

 

[Colly1470]

It looks like all 3 are buff colored. (Their bills/beaks are that beige type color).

 

[Cerise1924]

Day 19, and I just had to visit the incubators on lockdown and take a peep through the clear plastic wall, thinking about opening one up and sponging up a little water to bring the humidity down a notch...
And then that one Appenzeller chick who was always flailing around during candling, says

"Don't start unlocking and don't bother knocking, cause this egg is rocking!"

Of course that's the egg that's rocking and rolling! We've got a feisty chick in there. So excited to meet the babies.