Moon’s first time incubating eggs, and also Hatch-Along!

[MoonMoon]

Actually not true. It’s afternoon now. I forgot to post that lmao

 

[The Moonshiner]

You must be exhausted by now. I'm exhausted just from reading this thread.
Good luck with your hatches

 

[MoonMoon]

I’m finally done with feeding, refilling waterer, collecting eggs, watching the outdoor flock. I am reeling

Anyway. Gonna candle all the eggs without missing/skipping any anymore, I am numbering them so I can’t skip one. Unfortunately some are not looking good, but I’ll post them all for you all to study anyway.

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Egg 1. 29th or 30th egg.
Clearly a quitted. Must be long ago. This egg’s last candling was on Day 8. Somehow I missed it till now. White shell.

Egg 2. Set and laid on the 30th. Alive white shell

Egg 3. Set and laid 29th April. Alive medium brown shell

Egg 4. Not written laid and set date though I think laid and set on the 30th. Alive. Speckled lightbrown shell

Egg 5. Laid and set 30th. Um, why are the veins looking like that? Have big space on one side....have movement though so approve. White shell

Egg 6. Set 2nd of May. Lots of space at the bottom...no movements. Lumpy spots for the baby I was supposed to be seeing....I don’t know...white shell.

For a day 13th egg not too bad so I’ll leave it in.

Egg 7. Laid and set 3rd of May. Strong movement. I saw the full shape of the chick. Hello white shell

Egg 8. Laid and set 29th of April. The darkness is a good sign caucasian shell

It’s skin colored lmfao
Egg 9. Strong movement. White shell. Happi happi happi *yippee jumping*

Egg 10. For some reason I forgot to take that egg’s picture. Well, very strong and healthy chick in there. Speckled medium brown shell.

Egg 11. Healthy. Dark brown shell.

Egg 12. Quitted. Medium brown speckled shell.

Egg 13. So actually posting about 23 eggs is very tiring. I’ll summarize the rest.

Egg 14-23. All fine and healthy and with strong movements. I can even see movements with plain eyes. They’re kicking so hard the eggs shake
So overall out of 33 eggs, 21 eggs lived to 16/05. That’s 63% still alive I think. Well we’ll see how many hatch. There better be some half leghorns and feathered feetsie

I only have one rooster. Everyone will be from him. At least he did his job well lmao we had 18 hens and he got most of their eggs at least.

 

[MoonMoon]

I’m bumping humidity to 60-65% I guess. I don't want to do 70% humidity that much but I don't know about dry hatching either. Well, for just today anyway. May let humidity fall to 50% again till day 20/21 when I’ll bump it up again. Who knows. I plan a lot in my head but I make decisions in the moment. We’ll seeeeeeeeee~

 

[MoonMoon]

Oh yeah also forgot to mention: I had also reduced the temps setting back to 38.1°C. If anyone passing by thinks that’s a bad idea plz tell me, but I just thought since all of the eggs are more spread out now without the turner tray I should be on the err side of heat. Then again, it wasn’t much difference? Idk

It probably doesn’t matter that much I am just anxious lmao.