Colored Egg June Adopt-An-Egg Hatch Along!

[Chicken poppy]

Mine will be Gandalf II - or perhaps, Gandalf the White

Spoiler: SPOILER

Rest in piece Gandalf the White

 

[SchoolPsychMom]

Total newby, so please don't take offense, but what do you mean by 'adopt an egg'?

 

[Chicken poppy]

Total newby, so please don't take offense, but what do you mean by 'adopt an egg'?

Adopt an egg usually means to just virtually adopt and name the egg, see them grow up.

 

[Iluveggers]

Adopt an egg usually means to just virtually adopt and name the egg, see them grow up.

Yes, this! And cheer them on during incubation and hatch!

 

[chicklover_3221]

are any still available? Is F9 the only one left?

Yeah, F9 is the last one!

 

[chicklover_3221]

I'm going to wait until F12 hatches

 

[Iluveggers]

Update: It is day 7, I candled, took weights, and drew air cells. F2 looks questionable, and F4 is so dark I didn’t think it had an air cell at first but I found it. Good news: I saw veining in all 3 of the porous Olive Egger eggs! I did not take pictures because there was a lot to do and I didn’t want the eggs out too long. Bad news: F1 had a weird bump along it, and when I candled it looked like a tiny crack, and it almost seemed like it was being pushed out toward the crack like pressure…so I removed it, cracked it outside, there were a few blood streaks but it didn’t stink. I am just glad I took it out as I had visions of an incubator egg explosion!

Weight loss was all between 3.5% and 6.3% with an average of about 4.5%. Air cells were around the same size. One Legbar egg had a slightly tilted air cell rather than a circle at the tip, but it was at the correct end of the egg. Here are a few pics of the incubator after the air cells were drawn. I marked the tilted air cell, im sure it was from shipping but it is not moving so I am hopeful it will work out ok.

 

[junior67]

Update: It is day 7, I candled, took weights, and drew air cells. F2 looks questionable, and F4 is so dark I didn’t think it had an air cell at first but I found it. Good news: I saw veining in all 3 of the porous Olive Egger eggs! I did not take pictures because there was a lot to do and I didn’t want the eggs out too long. Bad news: F1 had a weird bump along it, and when I candled it looked like a tiny crack, and it almost seemed like it was being pushed out toward the crack like pressure…so I removed it, cracked it outside, there were a few blood streaks but it didn’t stink. I am just glad I took it out as I had visions of an incubator egg explosion!

Weight loss was all between 3.5% and 6.3% with an average of about 4.5%. Air cells were around the same size. One Legbar egg had a slightly tilted air cell rather than a circle at the tip, but it was at the correct end of the egg. Here are a few pics of the incubator after the air cells were drawn. I marked the tilted air cell, im sure it was from shipping but it is not moving so I am hopeful it will work out ok.

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S5 in my last hatch had a major saddled air cell and hatched nice and strong.

 

[Iluveggers]

S5 in my last hatch had a major saddled air cell and hatched nice and strong.

That’s good to hear! I’m just happy it’s on the correct end of the egg!

 

[MochaLatte]

Good news: I saw veining in all 3 of the porous Olive Egger eggs!

Did you notice if Minty had a shadow in the shape of a sword in her egg? I expect she will hatch with a Damascus sword and full armor.