Incubating my eggs!

2 Chicken

In the Brooder
6 Years
Jul 15, 2013
13
1
24
Salt Lake City, UT
I currently have a Hovabator 1602n and had it set up for a week before purchasing 6 barred rock eggs! The humidity stays around 55%, never going below 20% unless I open up the bator to turn the eggs (they're hand turned, since I have no turner). The temperature stays 99-100%. I have the thermometer that came with the bator on top of the eggs (that are set pointy end down in a carton), and a digital thermometer hygrometer combo beside the eggs. All is good!
I've turned the eggs every day 3-5 times. I marked them with an X and an O so I know where to turn them.

Today is day 8, and I candeled them yesterday on day 7! I took a few pictures. I candeled them with an iPhone flashlight.
I'm going to upload the pictures you can actually see veins on. Look below to see the rest of the pictures!






https://www.backyardchickens.com/g/a/6512462/candling-br-eggs/

^^ Click there for the album ^^
(Will add candling pictures for day 7, 14, and 18!)

Will try to keep updated! :)
I apologize if this is in the wrong forum, but I'm quite new to this site!
 
Sorry I haven't updated this thread! Well, on Day 21 I looked in the incubator and saw 3 eggs with cracks in them! The next morning, I found a baby chick and one beginning to hatch. Later on, 2 more chicks joined, and then the last one! A total of 4 chicks out of 6. The one egg I felt iffy about when candling stopped developing, and one egg didn't make it to hatch. 2 of them are without names, the other 2 are Lolly and Nugget! (Nugget named because she/he is so tiny and the last one to hatch)

They are now 3 days old & hatched July 29th
 

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