Anyone hatching April 5-7 or so? ALL DONE, READY TO BE LOCKED

[Cynthia12]

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To Cynthia from a Cynthia...where do you live.

We also got a small thunder storm last night..didn't last long. All I could think of was the warmers that you talked about and how I hadn't had a chance to get any yet!! lol..
Well, the noise passed by quickly, but rained for a while, and woke up to snow on the ground, in Utah. Still--it will get up to 40's today, so it will be gone by afternoon.

No power outage!

 

[speckledhen]

I'm in the North Georgia mountains of Fannin County, right at the NC line. I've lived in Utah, twice. First was Layton and Ogden, then the second time we were there, bought a house in Roy.

 

[San]

Well instead of 7 eggs it's now 6 eggs. One stopped developing and showed a bloodring so I just removed it. The 6 left are doing good!

 

[key west chick]

Hey Cyn, werent those thunderstorms something?! We had some power flickers but it stayed on. All I could think about was my bator and all those little eggies. So far Ive tossed 1 egg out of 20 something. But, the Marans are so dark I cant see in them.

 

[Chicken Chickita]

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Yay! I have wcb and silkie eggs due that day too! Can't wait to compare pics! So exciting!! (Too much waiting!!)

 

[Chicken Chickita]

Hahahaaa! I'm becoming obsessed with candling. I do it once each evening and now have the eggs arranged from "most movement" to "not doing as well." I'm also on the verge of getting incubator #3 and wondering if my DH will notice.

 

[snazzyboots]

i'm becoming obsessed with candling too. it has been 2 days. i'm gonna do it again tonight. can't wait

 

[kingsfarm]

Hi, first time hatcher here...filled incubator with 42 eggs..point down..filled middle water trough to full capacity..put thermometer on top of eggs and turned incubator on...l l/2 hrs now and temp is 100 - humidity 60 .. is this too hot or high? I left the thermometer on top of eggs, an acurite from walmart - plastic...will all be ok.. raised 6 children - feel like am about to have 40 more if any make it..just got 18 chicks and wanted to have a bunch at one time to increase my flock... thanks ahead of time for your help...

 

[latebloomer]

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is your incubator a still air, or a circulated air type

circulated air you want 99.5, still airs are shooting for 101 (correct me if that's off)

you humidity seems a little high

 

[KZ]

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After reading your post, I ran off to candle some of my eggs. I was going to wait until Tuesday...... but nooo. I just grabbed a couple near the door.

Anyway, I found one with a blood ring. I was all worried that if I ever did have a blood ring I wouldn't be able to recognize it, but it's pretty obvious. Even though it is a bad thing for the egg, I was sorta glad to find it so I could experience that.

The funny thing is, that egg always did look wrong inside. That's why I kept looking at it. (of course, maybe I killed it by looking at it too much...)

I cracked it open, but since it is only day 8 it wasn't as gross as I expected. X

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I checked another one out that I thought was a dud 3 days ago and it is developing nicely. Another one I apparently thought looked ok is looking like a clear. I am not gonna pull them all out to candle until Tuesday, if even then. I may let them go until lockdown (4/6). I would LOVE to have a good hatch rate and if candling interfears with that, I simply won't candle.

From what I have read and observed on here, some people are way too quick to toss eggs out. Maybe if I ever have an egg explode on me I would worry more, but I think it's unlikely.