First Time hatching eggs! Watch them grow!

[nessa.morg]

Hi Guys! Im in the process of incubating 8 eggs and this is the very first time I've done this. I put them into incubation Saturday afternoon. I would greatly appreciate suggestions from y'all or comments because im new to incubating. I will be candling the eggs in a little bit to show y'all the stage they are at now!

 

[nessa.morg]

First off... I wanted to show y'all my incubator and egg candler

 

[nessa.morg]

Here is the pictures from candling!
It seems to me the order that they are in inside the incubator correlates to the amount of progress each egg has made. Im not sure why

 

[Chicks 'n ducks]

Beautiful! you have some healthy embryos growing!
Good luck with your hatch!

 

[nessa.morg]

Beautiful! you have some healthy embryos growing!
Good luck with your hatch!

Thanks! Im might candlelight them today to make sure the last three on those pictures have started to grow the veins bc all the other ones have!

 

[nessa.morg]

Its ok to candlelight them again right?

 

[Chicks 'n ducks]

Yes it's fine to candle again. I love watching the process!

 

[nessa.morg]

Yes it's fine to candle again. I love watching the process!

Great! I didn't know if you candle them too much it will hurt them but I've only candled them once so far. Ill post pictures when I do it today. I do have a question...Are you supposed to wash your hands before candling them so there is a lesser chance of passing bad bacteria to the chicks

 

[nessa.morg]

Ok so here is the candling from today. The egg pictures will be in the same order as my egg pictures from my first candling.
Day 5 of incubation:
Im not really sure whats going on with that last egg. It should have veins by now

 

[Chicks 'n ducks]

the second to last egg might have a blood ring which indicates that the embryo is dead. I am not sure though. Keep it in the incubator and watch it. the last one is a dud, probably wasn't fertile to begin with. the other six are thriving!