First Time Hatching My Own Eggs!!

arishoks

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Jan 26, 2021
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Hey everyone! I started incubating my own eggs for the first time at the beginning of the month. This morning I woke up to one of the eggs pipped on day 20!! I am so excited! Patiently but anxiously awaiting the others for signs of pipping.

I should be getting some langshan/cochin crosses and possibly some seramas (although I think I only have 1 serama egg incubating currently). I'm using the Kebonnixs incubator, and while it wasn't my first choice, my mom got it for me for my birthday in January. It's been working really well so far! I use my own temp and humidity gauge, but the Kebonnixs seems to be accurate as well. It has it's own egg turner, candling light, and you can add water externally.

The only issue with the incubator I've had so far is for lockdown, it didn't seem to want to get the humidity up higher than 50%, so I put a (new and clean) wet kitchen sponge inside and that did the trick. Hoping for a good survival rate for my little chickies <3
 

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QUICK UPDATE! The 2nd egg due has definitely internally pipped, but not externally yet. I will be keeping an eye on that egg, but the 1st egg has started breaking out!!!! So excited!!! I hear lots of cheeping so I'll probably be staying in the room with the incubator for the night. Glad I took a nice nap after work :3
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Baby number one has hatched successfully!! She made it out no problem. I left her for about 5 hours in the incubator to dry and then put her in her nice toasty warm brooder so she can rest easier. The next egg is on it's way currently! I have not slept all night :D I took work off for this
 

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SO worth it haha. I didn't sleep all night and I would have been miserable. I would have also missed the 2nd hatch, so I'm glad I was here in case anything went wrong!! I got two healthy babies

SO worth it haha. I didn't sleep all night and I would have been miserable. I would have also missed the 2nd hatch, so I'm glad I was here in case anything went wrong!! I got two healthy babies now
Congrats! Pics?! Plz, lol
 

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