Just filled my incubator! due to hatch 5/1 anyone want to join me?

I have been reading your thread the last couple of days. My eggs are due to hatch 5/2 and it is my first time with a homemade still air incubator.

Yesterday I candle a few of the dozen mutt eggs, 1 I think showed veins
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, 1 maybe a bloodring but I am not sure enough to take it out yet.

I am worried because on day 3 I had to drive the incubator home from preschool for spring break and every rut on the dirt road made me very nervous. One egg moved and cracked a little (sealed with wax now.)

When I candled, on most of the ones I checked the yolk sure can move a lot and I couldn't see the air cell. Hoping it was just too early and that I am not yet good at seeing things in the egg.
Wish me luck please!!
 
And here we go. As it turns out, it is much easier to see the blood ring when candleing versus trying to take a picture. That's the best my camera could do. Yolk was flowing freely in there along with the blood ring. I have incubated porous eggs before so I wasn't too worried but appearantly this one was a little bit too porous which was disappointing since it was laid very clean.

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I am finding that everything that moves too "freely" on Day 7 is not viable and should be thrown out. The blood ring can trick you sometimes because it may look like veins but the lack of an air cell and the free flowing yolk inside is a giveaway for me. So far I have never thrown out a viable egg
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So we candled yesterday and my hatch buddy and i squealed like a couple little girls when we seen our first embryo MOVE!!! We ended up with 5 movers and shakers
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, 7 maybes and 4 no go's
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I seen 2 for sure with a blood ring. We candled a mover today in the classroom and he/she played up for the kids. Swimming around coming up to the shell then moving away then comming back. It was indeed AWESOME. I love my work!!!
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...ok now back to waiting.
 
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Now you have me excited to see it LOL
I have a back bedroom with DARK drapes that works great as well only thing is my uncle lives in there (between houses (rolls eyes) LMAO
I have never seen a bacteria ring and am very interested in seing it even tho the lil one didnt make it

ok Now that I seen your pic LOL that interesting I have a kinda free moving mover the lil embreyo move when I move the egg but when I hold it still it swims around like crazy haha
 
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I looked again tonight at my maybes and i took a pic of lucky #13.....anyone have any imput on it
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both dark spots move and do so independently of each other. In my inexperienced opinion i think we
have 11 viable eggs and 5 duds. I think # 13 is twins!! I know twins dont have a history of hatching well
but i hope its ok. We're crossing our fingers toes and anything else possible!
 
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Now you have me excited to see it LOL
I have a back bedroom with DARK drapes that works great as well only thing is my uncle lives in there (between houses (rolls eyes) LMAO
I have never seen a bacteria ring and am very interested in seing it even tho the lil one didnt make it

ok Now that I seen your pic LOL that interesting I have a kinda free moving mover the lil embreyo move when I move the egg but when I hold it still it swims around like crazy haha

I finally threw the egg out. Didn’t want it to explode on the kitchen counter or have the cats play with it. I will candle again tonight since I still have 2 maybe’s. One is a blue EE egg and of course it is hard to see anything in it. The other one is brown with speckles and something is in there but I cannot tell if it’s a blood spot or embryo. Air cell is intact on both though.

It is kind of ironic to say but since I am getting ready to breed my horses again it seems that 21 days is such a short time compared to the 11 months that a mare is pregnant, yet it seems like forever. I cannot believe it is only Day 8. How could I possibly survive another 2 weeks of this?
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It's hard to tell. Does it have a decent size air cell?

it seems to have an adequate air cell for one chick...not sure about 2. Not sure if we are seeing twins..not sure if the 11 are viable...not sure any will hatch...just not sure of alot things this is my first hatch...waiting waiting waiting
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It's hard to tell. Does it have a decent size air cell?

it seems to have an adequate air cell for one chick...not sure about 2. Not sure if we are seeing twins..not sure if the 11 are viable...not sure any will hatch...just not sure of alot things this is my first hatch...waiting waiting waiting
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Guess that's what makes hatchin' so much fun!
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