Candling help, now with more pics day 8!

[Graciesing2us]

@Graciesing2us haha yup! Just gotta cosider that babies are growing inside and taking up alot of space, and obviously they are solid objects! so the egg gets blacked out whith their little bird bodies smushed in there

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Aww, bless them. One more question if I may, my chicks are due on Tuesday I know you're supposed to stop turning them a few days before would that be Saturday then?

 

[Gail Laubenthal]

Yes, on Saturday! 3 days before your hatch day. Often times you will have an early bird hatch one or two days earlier, so have your brooder ready for the little ones.

 

[Graciesing2us]

Yes, on Saturday! 3 days before your hatch day. Often times you will have an early bird hatch one or two days earlier, so have your brooder ready for the little ones.

Oh it's already thanks for the advice..more ready than when my 2 sons were born

 

[ScottKelly1974]

I've been thru much over the last year hatching eggs. My eggs will begin to hatch starting now. Already two of them are chirping. When you candle the eggs, you can look for a triangle shadow appear and vanish from one point of the dark area. This is the chick trying to break open the shell. For me I put a safety hole away from the chick to insure the chick does not use up the oxygen attempting to break the shell. I've had some in in every batch before this method die. Also, you can listen to your eggs. If you hear sounds, you know the chick is still alive. You don't want to help the chick hatch.

As you know the inside of the egg is covered in blood veins. It takes time for these to dry up and be absorbed by the chick.

Also if you find a chick moving about with the egg shell still attached, don't put the umbilical cord away from the chick. Wait for it to be died and pull from the egg shell.

 

[Nekopan]

Lockdown time! Day 18. I candled one last time when I reconfigured and added water to up the humidity.

Egg 1

Egg 2. Discarded

Egg 3. This one is suspect but I’m going to leave it in.

Egg 4

Egg 5

Egg 6. Also discarded.

Egg 8

Egg 9

Egg 10. This one is a superstar!

Egg 11

Three more days until peepers!

 

[bintekhan]

Waiting anxiously to see little fluffy chicks !

Good luck!!

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Thank you for the great pictures and information. My first clutch is set to hatch this weekend. My friend has an incubator and hatches eggs for her classroom, so I provided the eggs this year for her.

I'm dying that I can't watch them, but I will get the chicks afterwards.

Thunder Roo is excited for his first round of babies.

 

[Cryss]

 

[bintekhan]

Wow beautiful rooster!

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Wow beautiful rooster!

Thank you!! I'm so excited for his first round of eggs to hatch. I have more to go right back into the incubator as well!