Day 0 on a full 22 capacity Nurture Right 360!!

[FeatherTay]

It looks really good! Following!

 

[Deegie]

following also, very interested.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Alright here are days 5 and 7. Unfortunately I had a rough night last night and didn’t photograph six

Tonight (day 7) I was able to see the embryo swimming! Simply incredible.

https://youtube.com/shorts/uB0VigQbVPU?feature=share

 

[humblehillsfarm]

https://youtube.com/shorts/wD6Qj4lm260?feature=share

Day 8. Lots of activity!
I taped some index cards around the candling light to help with light leakage. I think it helped get a little better quality shot.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Okay we have day 9 without a ton of activity so no video, and we have day 11.

The day 11 video is the 2nd leghorn egg. The day 9 picture is the first egg. I’ve been alternating which one I am candling to reduce handling. It was my original intention to consistently photograph both each night.
https://youtube.com/shorts/3HRZH0bu1Do?feature=share

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I believe this was day 17 (the picture).

However the eggs are in lockdown and today at 1pm officially starts Day 20. I am eagerly awaiting the first little peeps and signs of hatching!

 

[humblehillsfarm]

It’s day 20. Two chicks have hatched under a broody. I moved eggs from the incubator to under her last Sunday. One of the leghorns eggs has its beak visible at the opening of its pip.

 

[Chicken Chat]

They are adorable!

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Two chicks in the incubator hatched! This one is the leghorn chick. Boy are they causing chaos in the incubator! They run to my voice every time I get close to them

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I think 12 hatched. I opened the rest of the eggs. Two of Betty Boops, my barred rock that we had to put down, eggs remained. It looks like one pipped internally and was ready to hatch but passed away. The other died and never even pipped internally. There was one other egg with a dead fully developed chick, also unpipped. All of the others looked like they were not fertile or quit very early on. One or two looked like they started to develop then quit. I’m very sad about Betty Boops egg. The one egg of hers that did hatch, the chick has super swollen feet and can’t walk. One other has super swollen feet and can’t walk as well. They were both very late hatches that I had to assist. I am just hoping they get better as the swelling goes down.