Hatch with me! Placed in bator on 5-13-2010. First hatch!

[chickee]

Don't worry!

My last hatch the chicks started hiding when I candled!! They went to the bottom of the egg and stayed still. The light really seemed to be scaring them! I use the Egg-lume high intensity candler and boy is it bright!!! Even after the chicks hatched they remembered that bright light and freaked whenever a bright light was shined on them! HANG IN THERE!

 

[AshleyFishy]

This might be a dumb question...but can they hear at this stage?

Maybe they heard me open the lid like the last time and knew what was coming?

But if you haven't seen this yet its pretty cool. Might help anyone out there not knowing what they are looking at (me!)

My eggs look alot like her day 10 almost day 11 looking.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261876

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

Thats not a dumb question!!!
I doubt anyone knows but the Creator if they do but there babies growing inside of an egg. For us we grew inside a womb and doctors say that when we are babies we can hear so why can't little chicks? That's the way I put it, others might not.

 

[chickee]

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Human babies can hear outside sounds when they are in the womb, so why not chicks!? Yes I've seen that post and keep refering back to it each time I am incubating eggs. It is really helpful!! My first batch of eggs are on day 11 also, but I feel they aren't 11 days along until tomorrow morning at 10:00 because I set them at 10 am on a Thursday and it isn't 24 hrs. until the next morning at 10 am. This seems to hold true, because my last hatch started pipping exactly at the same time of day I put them in the incubator that morning counting the days that way!

 

[AshleyFishy]

If I had to do this again, I think I would start out with white eggs!

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

haha! From my incubating experiences the easiest eggs to candle are my Pekin and Cayuga eggs. When you put the light up to them its as if there is no shell. Perfectly clear!

 

[Cynthia12]

Hi! I also put some eggs in my hova on the 18th. It's a 1588--preset. I have had so many successful hatches from it. I have 18 eggs. Candled tonight..every egg is fertile, and the babies are having a swimming party..together...they just don't know it, because they are in different eggs...

Now hoping for them all to hatch...I don't count my chicks before they hatch, but I have a good feeling about this one.

There were two roos...a huge giant of a Buff Orpington..I'm serious, I don't think that I have ever seen such a big rooster! The other is a pure cokcoo marans. The hens..black sex link, Americana, RIR. I think I will have some pretty barn yard mixed going on here.

 

[chickee]

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I felt the same way on my first hatch!

Oh, I candled my new batch of BLRW shipped eggs tonight on day 4 (couldn't wait until tomorrow night~ to curious!

) and looks as bad as I thought it would with these beat up eggs that came with 2 broken and 1 cracked, and of the 15 only 8 look like they are growing

It is still early, so I will hope that I am wrong!

 

[AshleyFishy]

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I felt the same way on my first hatch!

Oh, I candled my new batch of BLRW shipped eggs tonight on day 4 (couldn't wait until tomorrow night~ to curious!

) and looks as bad as I thought it would with these beat up eggs that came with 2 broken and 1 cracked, and of the 15 only 8 look like they are growing

It is still early, so I will hope that I am wrong!

 

[VillageChicken]

Too late to join? I found this thread last night after fussing with the temperature setting on my homemade incubator. I set 31 eggs on May 10th, and was laughing to myself about obsessive candling and the impatience factor. I could totally relate. It wore off a little after day 12 or so. I started with 10 BCM and 10 Brown leghorns (BL?) 5 araucana and 6 Aussielorp.
All but the AOrps were bought at a huge outdoor fleamarket that is held several times a year near Budapest in Hungary where i now live. The others were from a breeder in a neighboring village. I couldn't figure out how to candle the BCM's either, but at about day 12 I found if I shined through the airsac I could make out which were clears - unfortunately half. One clear leghorn and one clear araucana. So I'm down to an even 2 dozen. I have no idea if the araucana breeder breeds tufted to tufted, I don't really care if they come out with rumps or tufts - I'm just doing this for the pure fun of it. I'd just hate to see them make it this far only to die at day 20 because they're Et/Et.

Thanks everyone for making these 21 days less of a "going it on my own" venture. Peeps are scheduled to hatch 31st or 1st depending on whether I've gotten the temp right consistently. Using a rather crude setup of lightbulb with a rigged USB fan connected to an old cellphone charger inside an incubator made of 2 inch thick styrofoam insulation they use for the outside of houses here. The bulb is connected to a dimmer cord I found at IKEA, and have a supposedly accurate analog thermometer/hygrometer in with the remote sensor from a small digital weatherstation so I can monitor the temp without constantly having to peek through the ventilation holes.

I know at least some of these little guys are still alive and kicking, but although I see lots of veining, especially in the araucanas, I don't always see them move - do they sleep? I'm curious to see what color the araucanas end up - I know it's always a gamble, but the guy who sold them said they were fogoly which is hungarian for partridge. As far as I know that's not a standard color. The closest thing would be gold duckwing. Please wish me luck. I hope it's not bad form to join a hatch when yours are supposed to pip before the one who started the thread!

Does anyone want to start a thread that lists all the acronyms! I've searched the site and can't find one.