Anyone want to hatch with me? - Went in 01/16/14.

[howfunkyisurchicken]

My eggs go into lockdown the day after tomorrow. I hope it goes better this time. I at least remembered to pull the vent plug this time, ugh.

I candled today, and the eggs were mostly full except for the air sac. I saw a couple of them move a tiny bit, but it doesn't look like there's much room in there. again. Good luck to everyone else!

 

[IamSamSam]

Some maran baby's.

Ara baby

 

[IamSamSam]

Hope everyone else has a great hatch

 

[Aacre]

My batch goes into lockdown today! I've already done the last candling and have the humidity getting up there. Last night, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but then I saw some others doing it too- WIGGLING! I was so excited that I had a hard time falling asleep. I kept going to the incubator window and looking at them wiggle. They'd wiggle just a little bit, but enough to let me know they're there!! Last candling went well. 15 are making the cut to go into lockdown. There are a few questionable ones, Mostly it seems like their yolk sack hasn't been absorbed yet- but I'm not giving up hope on them. I have had some times when the temperature was just a bit lower than what they needed.

 

[1 Critter Camp]

My batch goes into lockdown today! I've already done the last candling and have the humidity getting up there. Last night, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but then I saw some others doing it too- WIGGLING! I was so excited that I had a hard time falling asleep. I kept going to the incubator window and looking at them wiggle. They'd wiggle just a little bit, but enough to let me know they're there!! Last candling went well. 15 are making the cut to go into lockdown. There are a few questionable ones, Mostly it seems like their yolk sack hasn't been absorbed yet- but I'm not giving up hope on them. I have had some times when the temperature was just a bit lower than what they needed.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

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[howfunkyisurchicken]

Lockdown for me today. I'm really nervous after my entire last batch tanked. Hopefully I get some peeps this time. Ugh, this is the worst part!

I'll candle later, but my torch stinks so I probably won't see too much

 

[mamahen1980]

Howfunkyisurchicken what kind of incubator are you using? I used little giant still air, when they went into lock down, I removed the second plug also. I didn't measure humidity I only had thermometer. Good luck on this batch!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

Its a still air LG. I made extra sure I removed the plug(s) this time. Thank you
I went ahead and candled and could see one chick already pipped into the sir cell, which is definitely a good sign. I did notice I have a few saddle shaped air cells though. I have no idea what would cause that, since the eggs weren't shipped, dropped or handled roughly.
Anyone else ever had saddle shaped air cells in eggs that weren't shipped? Its literally only 3 of them (out of 11). They're all in different spots in the Bator and all of the air cells looked normal when I candled a few days ago. Always something!

 

[mamahen1980]

My broody had one like that but it did hatch out fine. I hope yours does too.