I am two weeks into a hatch under a broody. She's sitting on 5 eggs (it was six but I dropped one less than 12 hours after sitting them under her, whoops). Anyways, in week one, three times I came home to barely warm or cold eggs after she went into the wrong nest box. At the end of week two, all the eggs seem a touch heavier and don't smell bad, but I haven't candled them. They should hatch probably Sunday or Monday, if they hatch at all.
I was worrying quite a bit until I found this article: https://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/PowerOff.aspx which calmed my fears that the entire hatch is a bust. It was a super interesting read on the effects of temp changes while incubating eggs.
Here's the dad. He's a mutt hatched from a friend's eggs on April 25th of this year.
Here's the broody mom. I had put at least one of her eggs under her, but there were five blue eggs, and one was dropped. Hopefully not hers because I was really wanting to see what a chick from those two would look like. She's a blue Ameracuana. The other blue eggs were from two "partridge" looking EEs and there is one brown egg which could be from either a buff brahma or a barred rock.
I was worrying quite a bit until I found this article: https://www.brinsea.com/Articles/Advice/PowerOff.aspx which calmed my fears that the entire hatch is a bust. It was a super interesting read on the effects of temp changes while incubating eggs.
Here's the dad. He's a mutt hatched from a friend's eggs on April 25th of this year.
Here's the broody mom. I had put at least one of her eggs under her, but there were five blue eggs, and one was dropped. Hopefully not hers because I was really wanting to see what a chick from those two would look like. She's a blue Ameracuana. The other blue eggs were from two "partridge" looking EEs and there is one brown egg which could be from either a buff brahma or a barred rock.
the waiting game is so hard!
