Hatching buddies?? Hatchday July 8th!! ** Pics added pg 2 **

[LoveMyChicklets]

Oh yay! I'm so happy I found this thread. I have 15 eggs (13 Turken and 2 Easter Egger) that went into lockdown last night. I was only able to see through 4 of the eggs and saw movement. I am praying the others are alive and that most of these little fuzz-butts make it!

Oh yah, did I mention I'm a newbie with incubating

I'll be home pulling out my hair and biting my nails these next few days

 

[9gerianMile]

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Id suggest a nice 9 bulb led light, the brighter the better, makes candling so easy, first time i used a flashlight/light bulb DIY thing, was pretty hard, with the LED light much better, you still wont shine through the chick, but you can see the movement spot on!

I'm using a surefire flashlight... it works well enough. Great on the duck eggs, but these eggs are dark and full of chickies, hard to see =/ Thanks though, I'll look into in

 

[9gerianMile]

I have 5 chicks out, no more have pipped, not really "due" until tomorrow... Think I over-baked the little guys?

 

[Rocky Road]

I didn't see any movement when candling but it was all dark and I did it really fast because I didn't want to lose the hot air. So far I have 16 babies and some pipped still. There are still 12 eggs left so its wait and see now!!

 

[9gerianMile]

We have 9 little chickies and no other movement as of now.

 

[LoveMyChicklets]

I have two eggs out of 15 that are showing signs, pipped. I hope my others make it!!!! We have to leave to go out of town until 5pm today

 

[larryj57]

I wound up with a 50% hatch rate my worst ever, I have 20 very lively Dominque chicks and 42 more eggs going into the incubator tonight, as I said before I'll be putting them in my furnished air conditioned basement from here on out as the barn feed room didn't work out so well.

 

[m.kitchengirl]

my two duck eggs are still wiggling away & there has been a lot of change since weds, but NO PIPS YET. if they weren't so active, i would give up hope, but they are really moving in there & there are shadows that change... my temp & humidity says its right on, has all along, but i have 2 thermometers in there. is there any chance they are fighting the good fight or am i prolonging a long & arduous process & increasing their suffering? i counted my days out 17 times, will they come out spraddle legged since i haven't been able to turn them? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

congrats to all of you who have happy little wee ones. i love all the pics...

 

[silkie101]

awwww

what breed are they?

 

[m.kitchengirl]

hopefully anconas. we had 2 power outages & they were our only survivors of 9. i'm really worried for them & just want them to come hang out & eat slugs while i weed the garden. i keep telling them of all the fun things we will do when they HURRY UP & COME ALREADY!

if they get here anyway. i wish i had a little camera in each egg, so i would know how they were doing. or ex-ray vision like superman.