I Set 14 Eggs! Hatch along with me!!! *CHICKS R HERE!!!! PICS ADDED!!

[ChickLover98]

Devastating candling:

I candled them all yesterday... I THOUGHT that 4 were duds, but when I cracked them, three had veins and blood...

Awwwww man!!! I feel sooo bad! That teaches me to never throw any away till day 18...

 

[GothChick]

I did the exact same thing! I felt terrible. My incubator temps had been up and down like crazy so I though the eggs were all dead and couldn't see anything when candling. I broke one open and it had a little beating heart! I felt awful and started crying. So you aren't alone.

 

[ChickLover98]

Thanks so much GothChick! That makes me feel like I'm not the only one out there that accidentaly got rid of a good egg. At least I have 10 more that look pretty good at this point. Due to candle iin a few days.

 

[GothChick]

That's still exciting then! I didn't have the same luck with my eggs. I started with 24 BCM eggs from two different people and 8 Olive Egger Eggs. I had to throw out all 12 from one set because they didn't develop at all so on day 10 I cracked them open and nothing. Then I killed one of my olive eggers because I thought it was dead but wasn't. Now I am down to 13 eggs left.

 

[kburen]

I'm close to you in time...I set mine on the 4th......Since my temp's were 100.4 through most of the incubation period my fiance and I are crossing our fingers for some activity on Sunday so we'll be there to see it!

 

[ChickLover98]

Ooo. Temp spike! That happened to me the first time and I got nothing... Good luck! We are crossing our fingers, too!

A question: Whats the best way to sex chicks? I'm going to sell some and give one to my BFF and keep some, but I can olny keep hens and my friend can only keep hens, too, so whats the best way to tell?

 

[Sumatra503]

You should still get chicks even with the high temp. I've had hatches at 103 before. You'll find that chicken embryos are very hardy.

I put in 10 mixed breed bantam eggs last weekend on around the 8th. I'd have to check the calender to be sure. I also put 20 button and 20 coturnix quail eggs in yesterday, so they should hatch around the time of your chicken eggs.

I never remove any eggs until about week after the hatch date. I'm always too uncertain of my candling ability to throw any away. It always drives me insane when I consider how many good eggs I may have thrown away.

Guess we're hatching buddies!!

 

[Nelaka]

I set mine on the 29th of October 2010!
Still haven't hatched though...
:|

:'(

 

[Sumatra503]

I dropped an egg last night when I was turning. It had a baby inside and it died while I was standing there. It looked so helpless and scared.

I feel terrible!!

 

[ChickLover98]

Awwww. So sorry!

I candled today and all but one made it! I've got 9 chickies on the way!

Sooo excited! My first ever hatched!