My first Mille Fleur clutch...am I being impatient? (Probably)

[chanda]

Good morning, all! I'm on day 21 for my first Mille Fleur clutch--no pips, no chirping. I cautiously candled them, and they APPEAR ready (movement, dark solid-filled eggs, enlarging air sac). I figure that I'm being impatient due to the fact that I've been reading on BYC how many bantams hatch early...MINE AREN'T!?! Don't they REALIZE how badly I want to SEE them?? Now that I think about it, TONIGHT will be exactly 21 days.

Incubator is dead-on at 99.5, and I have Barred Rocks hatching out as we speak. Water in the pan for evaporation, too.

TELL me I'm being impatient. (I am being impatient, right?)

hee hee! I can't wait!

Chanda

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

best thing to do during a hatch is to go out of town.

 

[chanda]

Update (kinda late)--I ended up with one MF hatching out, and it died shortly afterward. None of the others hatched or even pipped. When I candled them after allowing them to stay in the bator for about 5 more days, there was no movement. They seem to have died in the shell.

Chanda

 

[blondechick]

that's a bummer!!!

I just put 7 Mille Fleur in the bator this morning. I hope I don't have any problems.