My hatch is complete. I ended up with 7 Golden Cuckoo Marans (1 didn't make it), 3 Crested Polish (2 didn't make it) and 1 Lavender Orpington.
One of my Golden Cuckoos is quite a story. It was pipped with most of the beak out and then stopped for almost 12 hours. I tried tapping on the shell, gently touching the beak trying to it to move and nothing so I thought it was dead. I decided to eggtopsy so I could try and see why it didn't make it out. I got the top part of the shell off, no movement, sounds, nothing, but the eyes were wide open. Hmmmm, I got the rest of the shell off and all of a sudden its legs stretched out and then the wings spread out and it started screaming!
I left it in the incubator to dry and it is in the brooder now doing fine. I am going to get in the habit of doing eggtopsy on dead ones now. What a surprise!
I candled my 11 Welsh Harlequin Duck eggs last night and there was movement in all of them. 4 are now pipped and 1 is already half zipped around!