I'm planning to hatch chicks for sale for the first time soon.

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Number 4 looks like it might have the lavender feather pattern. It looks almost silver
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fuzzymonkeez101 said:
Couldn't wait a full week to candle, but today is day 5. And good news! I clearly saw little dots and healthy veins in all but one of my maran eggs. It was still dark and had an air sack though, it could just be hiding so I put it back anyway.
Here's the clearest picture I could get of one of them
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Yes, I was suddenly very impressed with other candling pictures when I tried taking pictures of mine. It was also my first time candling, I was so worried I'd drop them, adding a camera to the mix seemed like down right insanity, lol.
 
redinator said:
Yes, I was suddenly very impressed with other candling pictures when I tried taking pictures of mine. It was also my first time candling, I was so worried I'd drop them, adding a camera to the mix seemed like down right insanity, lol.
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Thankfully this incubator comes with a decent candler on top that you just sit the eggs on, it's just so hard to see through the darker shells of the chocolate and olive eggs at the beginning lol
 
fuzzymonkeez101 said:
Thankfully this incubator comes with a decent candler on top that you just sit the eggs on, it's just so hard to see through the darker shells of the chocolate and olive eggs at the beginning lol
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Mine had a built in candler too, but it would increase the temp in the brooder and the alarm would start going off. I'm defiantly getting a different incubator if I decide to hatch eggs again.

While were on the subject . . . I had another issue w my incubator, when chicks started hatching they would kick the other eggs that had pipped. The pipped eggs would get turned face down and I was concerned they wouldn't get air facing down. Is that something I'd have to worry about? A friend said it probably happens in the nest and shouldn't be a concern. But my thought was the hen would turn eggs over that got flipped, if it happened.
 
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redinator said:
Mine had a built in candler too, but it would increase the temp in the brooder and the alarm would start going off. I'm defiantly getting a different incubator if I decide to hatch eggs again.
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I am very happy with this incubator, didn't have any quirks, steady heat, got to temp quickly, and was really easy to maintain constant humidity with the waterbottle that came with it
 
Also, the chicks don't have any problems with if they get rolled over. The only reason we take out the turners is because their little clumsy legs can get stuck in the mechanisms
 

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