February/Valentine's Day Hatch A Long 2021!

[PDXJULES]

I candled mine last night!
I have two separate hatch dates, but a second incubator ready to rock for when its time to lockdown the first eggs!

Here is my incubator from last night all looking fertile....except how the heck do you see the maran eggs?! No idea about those!

The MO and OL are due on the 2nd
Everything else on the 9th

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Lost one CCL -no development

best i could do is get a stronger led flashlight, turn off all other lights, and monitor air cells - in the big end. I have 2 Marans Eggs...BCM and Blue. ..in a Purebreed Potluck - with wish list additions. Hoping humidity hasn't been too high for them due to the mixed breed hatch - in lockdown now. Good Luck!

 

[My2butterflies]

Monday the 15th is my lockdown day. Out of 24 eggs 16 for sure are fertile and growing. I have three maybes that are too thick of shells to really see anything. And the rest are looking like yokers.
Picture when eggs were set.

A few candling pictures.

 

[allebasi4]

Me!! I have some on day 4 that are due to hatch around the 20th. My goal for this hatch was to fill up the space in my bantam coop, as I only have 2 seramas and a silkie currently... I feel like they get cold and my serama roo could definitely use more ladies his own size... as well as deflecting attention off my only serama pullet

In my incubator I have 15 assorted bantam eggs that I ordered from Meyer as well as 6 of my own serama eggs. AND my serama pullet happened to go broody the same day I set the eggs, so I went ahead and gave her back 4 that were in the incubator and she added 2 on top of that. I had a really bad experience with my first shipped egg hatch (from a diff person.. 2/9 hatched) so I set more eggs that I would need. I’m slightly worried that (fingers crossed most hatch) I’ll have too many chicks, though there are people around who would probably take some. I don’t know what breeds the Meyer eggs are, specifically, but I do know there are a few bantam EE.. I’m excited to see what comes out!
good luck to everyone

 

[Offshoreorca]

I have a batch that is suppose to start hatching the evening of the 14th Getting closer!

 

[PDXJULES]

MO and OL go into lockdown tomorrow afternoon! Where is everyone else at ?!

4 AM Day 20 - i wake with a volcano dream...and i run to the Incubator to bump up humidity a bit. 3 Pips, maybe 4!! Yahoo!

 

[Rysktal]

Candled my eggs last night, it was day 8. I removed one egg which was clearly not fertilized. I'm curious how the rest will turn out. Is it unusual to see a lot of movement in the egg? In a good handful I saw veins and something wiggling around. A handful I also think may be early quitters but no obvious blood rings. When should I candle them again? Its not my favorite to be handling them so much and I'm already turning them 3 times a day.

 

[Rysktal]

4 AM Day 20 - i wake with a volcano dream...and i run to the Incubator to bump up humidity a bit. 3 Pips, maybe 4!! Yahoo!

I had a dream 80 chicks hatched and half of them were cornish cross. LOL!

 

[allebasi4]

Candled my eggs last night, it was day 8. I removed one egg which was clearly not fertilized. I'm curious how the rest will turn out. Is it unusual to see a lot of movement in the egg? In a good handful I saw veins and something wiggling around. A handful I also think may be early quitters but no obvious blood rings. When should I candle them again? Its not my favorite to be handling them so much and I'm already turning them 3 times a day.

It’s normal and a good sign to see a lot of movement! Between days 7-18ish you’ll see them “swimming” around, but at a certain point they get too big to see very much. If they’re not stinky or leaking you can wait until lockdown to throw away eggs that quit

 

[PDXJULES]

Candled my eggs last night, it was day 8. I removed one egg which was clearly not fertilized. I'm curious how the rest will turn out. Is it unusual to see a lot of movement in the egg? In a good handful I saw veins and something wiggling around. A handful I also think may be early quitters but no obvious blood rings. When should I candle them again? Its not my favorite to be handling them so much and I'm already turning them 3 times a day.

You can wait til day 17 or 18 if you want. Less is more.

 

[PDXJULES]

OMG i was just happy to have 8! EIGHT! pips early today...DAY 20, after not being able to see much thru shells.

Hatch is scheduled LOL for tomorrow...
but 6 lil darlins are already out!
2 surprise dark chicks popped out of shells suddenly when we were watching 2 blonde Basque Chicks vamp all over the Incubator with Bobo, a Cream Legbar girl. All 6 are Peepin n sleepin tonight.

Lord knows what will happen tomorrow. I thought 11 possibly viable after shipping and survivin an unknown 'bator, wildly mismatched temp/humidity gagues, and my rookiedom.
6/8 are out - of Pippers so far. 1 for sure is female.

One Blue Marans has a good pip for air but has not been able to bust out yet. A BCM is motionless next to her. Same with a Gold Deathlayer who was first to pip. I meant her to live among us for a long time. So still for hours today, the others may help in all their activity. IDK. It was a lot for not being hatch day yet!