It's going to be good!!You got a bunch of NN, didn't you Alex? I'm still waiting to acquire that "taste" of them although I must say Sluf is starting to grow on me. He's been out in the run with the other chicks for 2 days and he's thriving!! Today they were all let out of the brooder and had free run of the entire run!
Candling tonight after we get home.....I want to look but I don't want to know.
Same here. My apologies to all the NN lovers out there, but they just look too much like a tortured puppy I saw in the pound once.
The first egg looks GREAT for day 4, if there are others like it, you are in great shape. Last one, could be the start of a blood ring, or it could just be a thicker vein starting. I'd leave it in. I don't pull any eggs until day 10 at a minimum.Um, does this egg look okay for Day 4 -
........on accounta I got 13 more just like it!
And only one like this.....
That is fantastic Blooie!!! I can't wait till you get to hatch day!! I told you, this one is going to be a good one...lol And yes the bottom one is a blood ring/quitter.Um, does this egg look okay for Day 4 -
........on accounta I got 13 more just like it!
And only one like this.....
I ran average 45% with her eggs too. There was no way I could run my normal 30% the air cells grew too fast. I also hand turned, and I really think it's so much better. I had 14 go into lockdown and 12 hatch healthy. I expect you to have like results. Ross did Ruby's eggs about a week after I and I think she had 14 or 15 into lockdown and hatched 11. So I have a real good feeling about this and I can't wait till they hatch and your granddaughter sees them!! I can't wait to see them!! lolI am so excited I can't see straight! A couple of things I'm doing differently this time....first as per @RubyNala97 's advice, I'm keeping the humidity up just a bit. The other two hatches I didn't do much with humidity until lockdown, but it stayed around 30-35% during incubation. Air cell changes were all over the place because of the horrible condition the air cells were in when I got the eggs. I probably should have worked a little harder on controlling that. Now the weather is warmer, and as it warms here the air gets drier, so I'm maintaining 40-45%. In almost all of the eggs she shipped, the air cells weren't even visible, or very small, so I'll be able to monitor them better since they'll be losing moisture at a more uniform rate. I'm also blowing off egg turning by tilting the Brinsea, and not using the Farm Innovator's with the automatic egg turner either. I'm turning each egg by hand. Yep, it's a pain in the behind, but obviously nothing I did last two hatches was horribly successful so I'm not taking any chances with these!
I'm also not getting rid of the egg in the bottom picture yet. It does look significantly different than the other 13 in there, but until another candling it stays.
