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I candled today (day 7 in my incubator) Some of them are way ahead still. They were starting to do little chicky dance in the egg. I could see veins and a big blob of chick wiggling around in 3 of them. 5 have good veins and tiny little black dogs and a tiny red thingy (i guess the eye and heart). then 2 has the start of veining but hard to tell, might be late. Another has the dots like the others but no veins. and 2 couldn't see anything.
I had 18 am now down to 13 the other 5 had blood rings in them. I wanted them out as soon as I could because I don't want bacteria to infect my others.
 
Hi Everyone.
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I have 16 silkie eggs due to hatch on October 2nd and 3 more silkie eggs due to hatch on October 8th. They are all in an incubator. Saturday I'll move the first batch into a different bator for lockdown............already!
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I've been so busy this time that I haven't had time to worry and fret over them. I'm super excited about starting a white flock. 8 of the eggs are from white pens. All of the others are eggs from blue/black &/or splash breeding pens.
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Good luck to everyone's fuzzy butts hatching!
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*sigh* I am hoping i have some hatch. I've gone from 18 eggs to 8 eggs that still look good. I removed the ones that had nothing start at all days ago. Then tonight I checked what was left. several had blood rings in them. Now i'm down to 8 eggs. I hope all 8 hatch but am not going to get my hopes up at this point.
 
Today is day 9 on Crickets eggs and I do believe I shall candle them to see if I can see anything going on in there. Wish me luck!

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I candled her four eggs, one is a few days ahead of the others because I let her keep her own egg a day or two before I gave her any other eggs. I saw air cells in three eggs, nothing to show life yet. But in the Serama egg, I saw veins and definite movement!!
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I am so excited! I have never candled before and I was just using a Maglite so I was worried I was doing it wrong in the first three eggs but then I saw the baby moving in the fourth egg
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I'm brand new to this. I decided to let my hen hatch her fertilized eggs the day after my rooster was killed. They are Americauna. The oldest egg was 8 days today. I have tried candling them and some look very much developed. Today she started sitting on them and turning them, well I'm not sure when she really started. This morning they were already warm. Not sure how to say when they are due? Not sure if I'm doing what I should be doing. I have 4 hens that share a coop. They seem to take turns sitting on the eggs.
 
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I'm brand new to this. I decided to let my hen hatch her fertilized eggs the day after my rooster was killed. They are Americauna. The oldest egg was 8 days today. I have tried candling them and some look very much developed. Today she started sitting on them and turning them, well I'm not sure when she really started. This morning they were already warm. Not sure how to say when they are due? Not sure if I'm doing what I should be doing. I have 4 hens that share a coop. They seem to take turns sitting on the eggs.
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The other hens may be sitting on the eggs to add their own eggs to it. You will want to mark the eggs you wanted her to hatch originally and keep checking to make sure no one adds theirs to the mix. 21 days from the first day she starts sitting is when they are due, I would just take a guess. Will you be separating the mom from the rest of the flock when she hatches?
 
Well I'm not sure should I separate, or if they are always all together, will they just take care of each other? I guess I should count this as day 1? They sit on them sometimes and lay eggs, adding to the bunch, but this is the first day she just hangs out for long stretches at a time. Although I noticed she came out of the coop just now, hope that's ok. They do add to the pile, but it's easy to tell the difference cuz she is the only Americauna I have and lays blue eggs, there are 2 that lay brown eggs and 1 that lays white eggs. Is it ok for me to clean out old pine chips to replace and freshen the coop around her? or am I suppose to stay away?
 
ArmyWife said:
Well I'm not sure should I separate, or if they are always all together, will they just take care of each other? I guess I should count this as day 1? They sit on them sometimes and lay eggs, adding to the bunch, but this is the first day she just hangs out for long stretches at a time. Although I noticed she came out of the coop just now, hope that's ok. They do add to the pile, but it's easy to tell the difference cuz she is the only Americauna I have and lays blue eggs, there are 2 that lay brown eggs and 1 that lays white eggs. Is it ok for me to clean out old pine chips to replace and freshen the coop around her? or am I suppose to stay away?
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Day 1 is the first day she starts setting on them, it's okay for a hen to get off her eggs for short periods. They get off of their eggs to go poop and eat/drink until around day 18 then they set on the eggs until all their babies hatch.
 

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