Well... after 2 power outages for at least one hour each. Last one 2 days before hatch day. They are starting. One is out.. One is pipped and mostly zipped. and one is just pipped. A couple more look like bare "maybes".. And my 2 "supposedly" accurate thermometers lying about 1 1/2 degrees low (bator sitting on 98 degrees only but really steady!) for the first 2 weeks. The chicks are hatching. Had 4 out of 12 of these new pullet eggs not fertile.. culled 5 total up to lockdown. Culled 2 more with a water movement test this morning cuz of them being a day plus late..5 was bobbing still! so I put them back in and I guess them chik's are tougher then a person would think. Waiting for the second to finish zipping and the 3rd one to start from a pip already.. This whole incubation was just to see of the new rooster and new pullets were a fertile combination... guess so.
Next spring will have better sized eggs cuz these were all just small to medium sizes..but definitely viable! And this little loudly cheepin joker still had a piece of shell still stuck to the back of it's head. It's off now since the little bugger dried off good.
