Candeling pic's, hatch due 22nd October

[Bowen Mt Chicken]

Okay, day 7 pic as follows, we did take 5 out today, 2 with blood rings, and 3 had nothing in them, all cracked open to find the blood rings and nothing, we are down to 37 eggs, a couple were cracked during turning, first photo the developing embryo is seen closer to the shell, it was moving around in there so had to time the shot carefully. We won't be candling tomorrow, I will be at work tomorrow, so will take some more pics on Monday at a turning.

This second one I could see the embryo moving towards the centre of the egg, so embryo not clear, but veining can be seen, there is still sen to be differences between eggs, even though both are at day 7 are from the same incubator, both are white shelled eggs.

Good luck with all your hatches

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[ChickenPeep]

Heres a video of a 7 day old ebbryo moving inside the egg.

 

[Bowen Mt Chicken]

Okay, up to day 9 and the embryo's and moving heaps in the eggs, here are some pics.

 

[Bowen Mt Chicken]

And they are hatching, so far we have 13, started hatching yesterday on day 21, and are still going into day 22, there are some that have pipped and some that have nothing on them to what I can see at the moment, but we did candle them on day 17 and they were all alive then, so time will tell, there are 35 in total so another 22 left to hatch and only 3 don't have pips in them that we can see, the rest have varying degrees of pips and zipping, so hopefully more will hatch out by tonight.

 

[misslady]

Great pictures and good luck with your hatch!!

 

[Bowen Mt Chicken]

There is now 29 chicks out and well, 4 died during hatch as the other chicks smothered them when they were partially zipped, and 1 had attempted a hatch at he wrong end, but I didn't see it as the other chicks were everywhere and the eggs were in their cartons so I didn't see it and by the time we took all the chicks out as we couldn't see any other egg it was already dead, we had to take them out in batches as there were so many and they were stopping others from hatching, so as soon as we took chicks out we were having another explosion of hatchings, there is still 2 in the incubator, I peeled back the air sac part of the shell so I didn't damage the membrane and both were still alive with internal pips, so we gave them a light spray of warm water and popped them back in the bator, now to wait, it is day 23, so we will see how they go, but 1 did hatch out with a little help about an hour ago, will post pics soon, and we put three under a broody hen, she kicked 1 out and so we took it away from her she is caring for the other 2 though.

 

[Bowen Mt Chicken]

Okay baby pic's, now to determine breeds, I got the Araucana's pretty sorted as their legs are an olive colour, but the welsummers, brown leghorns, ancona's and barnevelders I almost have no idea, if you know any let me know, thanks.

Is this one in the middle a welsummer?

More baby pics

Two little bantam araucana's

the little black chick we think is a cross breed from our chickens when we had the rooster for a few weeks

The little white chick I like, there are a few light coloured ones like this one with olive legs

A little coloured chick with pink legs the only one this colour in the batch

A little brown chick with yellow and black splashes through it

All are cute babies

 

[misslady]

Very cute!!! I like the white one too, very pretty! Great job!

 

[guinea fowl galore]

They are excellent candling photos.
And super cute chicks too

 

[makybe]

Lovely chicks.

Is this one in the middle a welsummer?

It sure is, looks just like mine.​