Mrs. Viss' Classroom Hatch-a-Long!

[TwoCrows]

A: @Iluveggers name: Pikachu
B: @GodLovesU name: Junior
C: @Sefirothe name: Peaches
D: @Debbie292d name: Pinky Pie
E: @2ndTink name: Pinkie
F: @akroberts1085 name: Froda
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J: @SunriseChickers name: Justin
K: @SunriseChickers name: King
L: @TwoCrows name: Birdie
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P: @ABQ chicken keeper name: Peanut
Q: @Smokerbill name: Bebop
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Bonus Egg! S: @GreenJay name: Cashew


Updated list! Glad to see some more people joining in on the fun! Today is day 7, which will be our first candling! Fingers crossed we have lots of little embryos! I will take pictures of the eggs and post them here because I am extra like that, lol. Unfortunately, my magicfly candler was delayed and is arriving later today at my house, so we will have to make do with the candling light on the incubator for now. I will have the nice one for the next candling at day 14! Any eggs I'm unsure of today, I will probably take a quick peek at on day 10 too, for science... and because I have very little self control.

Candleing is always super EGG-citing! Come on all you egglets, don't disappoint! Birdie, keep growing!!

 

[tviss711]

Okay! We just candled our eggs. I will probably do a second candling tomorrow on the blue/olive eggs as long as my magicfly arrives today like its supposed to, because they were really difficult to see into with the incubator's candler. We were able to identify air cells, and on some we could see a "dark" side (where hopefully the embryo is developing) and a light side of the egg. The brown/cream eggs are always a dream to candle - on every brown egg we saw the little peanut shape and dark eye looking out! Some of them were wiggling which was so exciting to the kiddos (and me)!! I tried to let them each see a blue egg and a brown egg so they could see some development.

I hear mixed advice on frequent candling for various reasons, mostly because more handling = more room for dropping, introducing bacteria, etc. I am super cautious about it though and I really want to check on those blue ones again!

I do apologize, in my excitement I was not able to snap the pictures I was hoping to get.

I will update the list with confirmed embryos shortly, and will edit it again tomorrow once I look again at the blue ones! But so far, so good! There were no obvious quitters, I didn't see any blood rings either. Tomorrow will be more enlightening for the blue and green eggs though.

 

[GreenJay]

Okay! We just candled our eggs. I will probably do a second candling tomorrow on the blue/olive eggs as long as my magicfly arrives today like its supposed to, because they were really difficult to see into with the incubator's candler. We were able to identify air cells, and on some we could see a "dark" side (where hopefully the embryo is developing) and a light side of the egg. The brown/cream eggs are always a dream to candle - on every brown egg we saw the little peanut shape and dark eye looking out! Some of them were wiggling which was so exciting to the kiddos (and me)!! I tried to let them each see a blue egg and a brown egg so they could see some development.

I hear mixed advice on frequent candling for various reasons, mostly because more handling = more room for dropping, introducing bacteria, etc. I am super cautious about it though and I really want to check on those blue ones again!

I do apologize, in my excitement I was not able to snap the pictures I was hoping to get.

I will update the list with confirmed embryos shortly, and will edit it again tomorrow once I look again at the blue ones! But so far, so good! There were no obvious quitters, I didn't see any blood rings either. Tomorrow will be more enlightening for the blue and green eggs though.

Very exciting!!