Hatching Chicks With A Heat Pad And A Egg Carton Experiment

[hysop]

These chicks better be the cutest things ever (all chicks are so adorable) for making me wait this long to see em!!

 

[Kiki]

There is no reason you can't candle all of the eggs right now.

Lockdown/not opening an incubator does not apply to this situation at all.


Unfortunately you have been turning the eggs wrong. You should never flip an egg. Let me take a quick video to show you a better way to turn them for next time.

Brb

 

[Kiki]

My video is uploading to YouTube now.
I'll post the link as soon as it finishes.

For now go Kindle the eggs and see if the air cell has "drawn down."
If so it should be in about this position:

 

[Kiki]

 

[DogAndCat36]

Oh... my mistake... sorry. I saw incubators that where straight up ones and only hand flippable and I went by that. I didn't know that it was bad. I hope that they are okay.

 

[DogAndCat36]

My video is uploading to YouTube now.
I'll post the link as soon as it finishes.

For now go Kindle the eggs and see if the air cell has "drawn down."
If so it should be in about this position:
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I candled the eggs and saw that #1 had see through liquid floating by the air cell and the air cell was smaller than before. #2 had a good air cell. They both were slightly tilted, not as tilted as yours. As they ok?

 

[Kiki]

I candled the eggs and saw that #1 had see through liquid floating by the air cell and the air cell was smaller than before. #2 had a good air cell. They both were slightly tilted, not as tilted as yours. As they ok?

Liquid floating in the air cell is not okay...... Without seeing what you're seeing I'm going to guess that that one is dead.

 

[DogAndCat36]

Liquid floating in the air cell is not okay...... Without seeing what you're seeing I'm going to guess that that one is dead.

It is not in the air cell, just floating around it.

 

[DogAndCat36]

I have been practicing the x scraping technique to help chicks for a while so that I'll be ready just in case.

 

[LadyCluck77]

I came across this thread and read all of it from start to finish. Now I’m emotionally invested!