Give me some encouragement please!!

[Pyxis]

This page has good pictures of what they should look like: https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/candling-pics-progression-through-incubation-of-chicken-eggs

 

[KirstieJG]

That is a fantastic help thank you. At least five of them look completely fine, I broke open four because they were virtually empty and they look as though they died on day 5 or 6. The rest, i cant say for sure. I will leave them a couple more days then and see what happens. Thank you again for your invaluable help.

 

[KirstieJG]

Just a follow up because I get very frustrated reading threads which dont have a final update. I floated all the chicken eggs (its now day 24) and none of them moved in the water even though they floated correctly. I guess this means they are dead. The duck eggs have another day so I will leave them a little longer. I am leaving the chicken eggs in for another day because I cant quite kill all hope yet.

I will also say that I bought another thermometer with a humidity gauge attached and whilst the humidity was correct at 52%, the new thermometer said 103 degrees. I suspect that the old thermometer is wrong so will use the new one for my next hatch.

Its a learning experience I guess, but a hard one :-(

 

[Pyxis]

Thank you for updating and I'm so sorry they didn't hatch