Oh, I want to join you guys!! I got 12 GLW from Hot2Pot, and they're due 1/8. Two started weeping gunk within a day or two, so I tossed them. I put three more in an iffy incubator, and I think it cooked them. I have the remaining 7 in my brinsea mini advance. I candled today, at day 9, and I saw moving little wigglers in all seven.
All of them have kind of goofy air cells (I'm giving YOU the hairy eyeball, US Post Office...), so I'm hoping they can hatch ok.
I've successfully hatched eggs one other time, and that time, I had the eggs under a broody until day 20, and then stuck them in my brinsea for the final day so that the kids could watch them hatch. I did use netting to separate out the broody from the rest of the hens. I kept finding "extras" in the nest box- other hens kept going in and laying eggs on top of her. My henhouse isn't that big, and I didn't really have anywhere else for her to go. So, using some plastic mesh stuff, I put that up, which effectively cut the other chickens off from about 1/3 of the house. It seemed to work well.
All of them have kind of goofy air cells (I'm giving YOU the hairy eyeball, US Post Office...), so I'm hoping they can hatch ok.
I've successfully hatched eggs one other time, and that time, I had the eggs under a broody until day 20, and then stuck them in my brinsea for the final day so that the kids could watch them hatch. I did use netting to separate out the broody from the rest of the hens. I kept finding "extras" in the nest box- other hens kept going in and laying eggs on top of her. My henhouse isn't that big, and I didn't really have anywhere else for her to go. So, using some plastic mesh stuff, I put that up, which effectively cut the other chickens off from about 1/3 of the house. It seemed to work well.
