Just candled my 2(!) black ams and 1 has pipped internally!!! Ramping up humidity now!!
Sure hope they both hatch!! (Eta) especially since I started with 24...
My first hatch! A little crested cream legbar..looks like it will be a girl, but waiting till it fluffs up to say for sure. Have another CCL starting to zip now! Waiting on the others to pip still, but not opening the bator or candling to check for internal pips yet. Oh how i wish i didn't have to work today!
GREAT! Sorry about the 1 but overall this is a really great hatch!
Final count on road warrior chicks is 19! I had 20, but the last to hatch had a ruptured, unabsorbed yolk sac. I waited a little bit see if it would absorb up, but no progress after a few hours so I culled by CO2. It was quite runty and its initial pip was bloody. Try as it might, it seems the deck was stacked against him from the start.
Despite being 2 days early, this was my best hatch yet. Of the 5 eggtopsies, one egg was odd shaped and super shrink wrapped. Two appear to have quit shortly after day 14, and two more fully formed, but unabsorbed yolks. In the past I've had a number of chicks that are fully formed and have absorbed the yolk, but just not pip internally. These results were much less frustrating.
I did not calibrate it, however, it seems to me that it's pretty accurate. The lady I got my hatching eggs from suggested a dry hatch, so I tried that. The first 18 days the humidity was around 35, not adding any water. Then for lockdown I added a large 9" glass bowl with a sponge and it stayed around 70-75. I thought it seemed accurate because when I opened the door, it would go way down then come back up. I could be wrong!
