March 2023 hatch-a-long

[ritzchicks]

I have my first pip!!! I'm so excited and nervous because this is one of two eggs with a saddle air sac. I have five eggs and by far this one was the most active at the last candling so I'm not surprised it's the first to start.

 

[ivy_huan]

If I have a lot of eggs to candle, I try to be quick bc it is open longer and they hold heat less (it seems) when the embryo is small. I don’t worry about it too much, though. I candle pretty often so I only candle the ones I was wondering about at lockdown and remove ones I’m positive are dead. Only time I open after that is to get the humidity up again, and I TRY to take them out quickly in batches (one at a time since I take a picture and band a leg, which takes longer than just grabbing the hatched ones and putting them in a basket). And then wait till I have a good amount to remove again. I also try to time it so nobody is zipping when I open. I do hatch in cut down egg cartons and use an egg turner so the process at lockdown for me is getting my second incubator set up, separating by various parentage, putting them in cartons, and removing the turner. I try to be all set up before I open the incubator so I’m not fumbling and rushing.

So you have your eggs in upright position when hatching ?

 

[ivy_huan]

My day 21 is the evening of the 12th!

We can be hatching buddy lol my last batch came out on the 20th day

 

[ivy_huan]

I have my first pip!!! I'm so excited and nervous because this is one of two eggs with a saddle air sac. I have five eggs and by far this one was the most active at the last candling so I'm not surprised it's the first to start.

This is so exciting

 

[junior67]

I have my first pip!!! I'm so excited and nervous because this is one of two eggs with a saddle air sac. I have five eggs and by far this one was the most active at the last candling so I'm not surprised it's the first to start.

Woohoo!!!!

 

[kurby22]

I have my first pip!!! I'm so excited and nervous because this is one of two eggs with a saddle air sac. I have five eggs and by far this one was the most active at the last candling so I'm not surprised it's the first to start.

Yay!!

 

[kurby22]

They’re so cute!

 

[Iluveggers]

We can be hatching buddy lol my last batch came out on the 20th day

 

[Cochinlover92]

Eeek oh my gosh I got 2 that are pipped a day early!! I wasnt expecting that!

 

[kurby22]

Eeek oh my gosh I got 2 that are pipped a day early!! I wasnt expecting that!
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Woohoo!!