Eggs in incubator 8/22. Anyone else putting eggs in?

[Anarchy82]

My eggs go into lockdown tomorrow afternoon / night (depending what time I get home from work)

Started with 20 eggs, and now have 9 that are still growing (1 has a huge air pocket though, so not high hopes for that one)

But considering this is my first incubation, and I have only been reading and learning about chickens for 5 months.
I guess 9 out of 20 is not bad.

Especially with a homemade incubator, that I will never use again. (Found lots of flaws, but some good points for my next one)

 

[Edwards' East of Eden]

Those aren't barely there! They're completely there!

I think you got shafted. Obviously, those are not Bairlea chickens.

You should send them to me and start over.

 

[rarely bored]

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Awwww!!

 

[BairleaFarm]

Just got home from getting my nails done and there are 10 in there with several more pips. love it.

 

[Bantam Chase]

5 cochin chicks in the brooder and 3 pipped marans (day 20 for them). Thinking of 'flood' names for them... Lee is a given, so is Bob, lol.

I hope EVERYONE has a less exciting hatch than I am so far... I don't even have the energy to candle the eggs still in the incubator - I think i'm going to toss them all in the hatcher on saturday without even looking and see what happens! Pitched two stinkers yesterday... the big bummer is after all this I"m going to have to re-order the frizzled easter eggers... looks like 0% developing from them.

 

[rarely bored]

Wow! I didn't do the count down dance yesterday! Here is todays:

Lockdown today!

 

[Bantam Chase]

3 marans and today is their day 21. Lockdown fore the rest is on sunday - I candled last night and didn't see any movement from that batch... I"m hoping the power failures and flood didn't do them in - but I've got 8 chicks out of the batch that I have no idea how they survived. One has crooked toes and is in boots - obviously named Duck!

Countdown Dance - I love it!

 

[Anarchy82]

LOCKDOWN!!!!!

LOCKDOWN!!!!!

LOCKDOWN!!!!!

LOCKDOWN!!!!!

Started with 20 eggs, have 9 going into lockdown. Hopefully my odds are good for a couple to hatch.

 

[Bantam Username]

I've only got 3 eggs in lockdown now, I took one out earlier that was wriggling 2 days ago but the veining had turned to mush by today and when I turned the egg whilst candling, the mushy bits kind of floated. Didn't want to risk that exploding, I'll kick myself if it turns out that it's still alive, but no one answered my post on it so had to take it out to be safe!

 

[Anarchy82]

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I lost 2 in the last 3 days the same way. I know this is my first time incubating, but everything I read. Once you see the veins go away, you most likely lost it. Another thing I notice when I would check. The good growing ones, when you roatated the egg. The dark spot (their body) would move fast. Move a egg that was lost, and the spot would move very easy.