hatching chicken eggs using a hovabator incubator

leeboyz337

Chirping
11 Years
Jun 14, 2011
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i bought a hovabator incubator, an egg turner, with a circulating fan, and purchased 24 fertile buff orpington eggs and put them in.

day 1 i got the eggs in the mail each wrapped in bubble rap and then packed in paper shreads inside a box took them out and put them in the incubator
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day 3 i checked the eggs and you can see the hearts forming and the veins
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day 5 you can see the eye forming and the start of the embryos
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day 7you can see the embryos moving around
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day 11 the egg starts to fill up and there is more to the chick
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day 16 you can start to see the feet
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now only 4 days left til they hatch. will update with more pictures as it goes on and they hatch out.
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ok so i had a 3 eggs hatch last night all black chicks and then when i got home and one more hatched out a buff baby and its only day 19. now there are 3 more with holes starting.
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day 20 there were 6 more that hatched out all my buff babies

now for the start of day 21 and the rest start to pop out.
 
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