MARCH 2021 HATCH-A-LONG 🌷🌸🌼

[jeapa]

I got a few candle photos tonight of day 14 for my pita pintas eggs. I have 11 out of the 16 still looking great.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I had 3 but one was all liquid. 2 still on day 18 due on the 18th. One is in air cell.

The below eggs are on day 7. Both sets were from someone's fridge.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Jeapa- don't be surprised if they hatch a day or 2 late, there is a lot of fluid, on the plus side there is veins.

 

[jeapa]

Jeapa- don't be surprised if they hatch a day or 2 late, there is a lot of fluid, on the plus side there is veins.

So you think they look a couple of days behind in developing? I will cancel again on day 18 and see how they look. I could see all of them moving. I took a short video clip but not sure if I can post it here.

 

[gimmie birdies]

day 18

#1

#2

#1 of the big brown eggs above, (after day 16 the point should be dark. So at day 18 these are fine.)
The pic below #2 is the other big brown egg. Not in this pic, but I can see the chick jiggle the air cell. Both need the next 3 days to absorb the extra fluid towards the fat end, but they are doing fine.

Below are the from the 3 on day 7, Tan egg

Green egg harder to see inside, but you can see veins...

 

[gimmie birdies]

Sometimes eggs hatch a few days late if you candle the tip on day 18 and see fluid/clear on the tip, they can still hatch just take longer.

 

[Justso]

I'll jump in on this. I set 15 shipped blue eggs on the 8th. Just candled tonight, I had three non-starts, two blood rings. I'll take those numbers! That's the best I've ever done with shipped eggs *knock on wood*
Just so I don't curse myself I'll carefully point out that I have 0 chicks and 10 viable eggs.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I did my best to try and get group photos, what colours do you think they will be ! They are almost one week old silkies! Candling the shipped eggs tomorrow for day 12 update.

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First set, lavender, white or splash
Second set, blue
Beautiful chicks!

 

[Araucana Nest]

March HAL is not progressing optimally here. These are all my Awakening Forest eggs. No shipped eggs. Many were test hatches. Lots of non fertile eggs- they are all young and just started laying so no surprise. I threw out 30 eggs that would have been on day 16. The ones I kept back only two had visible veins. That isn't surprising, all of the eggs are dark and hard to see. I rarely see veins except right near the air cell. It's a new incubator too but it has been fluctuating between 99.1 to 100.2 marked at the door. Company says this is normal. It goes up when the temp in the room goes up and comes down when the temp in the room comes down. I don't think this incubator will be staying at my house.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Awakening forest- the temp can go up or down one degree. If it goes up 3-5 degrees, I would be upset.

Incubator with fan 99-100
Incubator that is still air up to 102.