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Hi everyone. I have 6 chicken eggs in a Brinsea mini advance. They have 6 days left, so im getting ready for lockdown.

How do you know when a chick has internally pipped? Do you still candle during lockdown?!?!
 
Ok so this is my fist time hatching...well my girls ( hens) ate doing the hatching.... Both are a banty mix...both have upwards of 18 eggs under them.....I have no clue what I'm doing....they went broody refused me the eggs and well here we are...it's now day 23... No chicks yet but I've had three eggs explode..man that smell ..,... I know the eggs are fertile, at least half..... Do I just let this go ? Do I take all the eggs and pitch them? I don't want to keep letting eggs explode....it's really smelly. I want babies but are they going g to hatch? I read I can't touch them thus far in....I'm at a complete loss.
 
timon said:
Hi everyone. I have 6 chicken eggs in a Brinsea mini advance. They have 6 days left, so im getting ready for lockdown.

How do you know when a chick has internally pipped? Do you still candle during lockdown?!?!
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You can't see an internal pip unless you do candle. With the Mini, i think if you place them just right, you can shine thru the glass and catch the air cell just right, and see in.
But alot of us don't "lock down" per se, and do candle during the final days.

grams-chicks said:
Ok so this is my fist time hatching...well my girls ( hens) ate doing the hatching.... Both are a banty mix...both have upwards of 18 eggs under them.....I have no clue what I'm doing....they went broody refused me the eggs and well here we are...it's now day 23... No chicks yet but I've had three eggs explode..man that smell ..,... I know the eggs are fertile, at least half..... Do I just let this go ? Do I take all the eggs and pitch them? I don't want to keep letting eggs explode....it's really smelly. I want babies but are they going g to hatch? I read I can't touch them thus far in....I'm at a complete loss.
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Ugh, that's a toughie. Are the hens nice? I'd grab a few of those eggs and candle them.
Also with that many eggs, they could easily be hiding chicks from you.
But hens can take a little longer than normal if they got off the eggs more often, or if they had so many eggs that they couldn't cover them all really well (18 is a bit much for any hen), or if there were late contributions to the nest.
 
They were friendly before they stole all the eggs..lol. When they get off each has a buddy who is there to sit...it's kinda cute..BUT they are also laying there egg at said time.. :-/. I'll try and see what's what in morning...I just don't want to handle the eggs if its a bad idea.
 
IMG_3758.JPG IMG_3759.JPG IMG_3760.JPG So, I sold a couple juvenile silkies last week. A blue cockerel and a paint I believe to be a pullet, but too early to know for sure, but she was willing to chance it. The two paints that were supposed to be sold and the girl stiffed me on have turned into gorgeous birds. One I'm pretty positive is a pullet, the other I think is as well, just not as 100% certain...lol They are 14 weeks today. I think I've decided, since I didn't want to add anymore paints because I want to concentrate on blues/splash, that I am replacing two of my previous paint hens that don't have nearly the crests these two do with the two 14 week olds. The girl that bought the juvie pair wants them if I sell them she said. Have to share a couple pics of my 14 week olds. One of them only has the tiniest black spot on her head...lol Other than that, you wouldn't guess it was a paint...lol
The pic that has sold on it was the pair I sold.
 
grams-chicks said:
They were friendly before they stole all the eggs..lol. When they get off each has a buddy who is there to sit...it's kinda cute..BUT they are also laying there egg at said time.. :-/. I'll try and see what's what in morning...I just don't want to handle the eggs if its a bad idea.
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You can handle the eggs, carefully of course. I just moved a broody on day 17! The other hens had been leaving her alone until today, so i had left her in the main nest box. But today i found another hen had rooted her out of her space. So i moved her and the eggs to a separate brooder box. She wasn't happy, but settled back on the eggs within a few minutes.
 
AmyLynn2374 said:
View attachment 1051188 View attachment 1051189 View attachment 1051190 So, I sold a couple juvenile silkies last week. A blue cockerel and a paint I believe to be a pullet, but too early to know for sure, but she was willing to chance it. The two paints that were supposed to be sold and the girl stiffed me on have turned into gorgeous birds. One I'm pretty positive is a pullet, the other I think is as well, just not as 100% certain...lol They are 14 weeks today. I think I've decided, since I didn't want to add anymore paints because I want to concentrate on blues/splash, that I am replacing two of my previous paint hens that don't have nearly the crests these two do with the two 14 week olds. The girl that bought the juvie pair wants them if I sell them she said. Have to share a couple pics of my 14 week olds. One of them only has the tiniest black spot on her head...lol Other than that, you wouldn't guess it was a paint...lol
The pic that has sold on it was the pair I sold.
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They are lovely! :love
 

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