My homemade bator batch-started 4/29 **Questions on page 3**

[ponderchick]

good luck on your hatch...i put my 10 banty eggs in the chic chick bator my husband made last night.....our hatces should be very close..keep us all posted

 

[Guitartists]

Well, I went and got one of those Sportsman flashlights!!!

What a difference!

1 more d'uccle was bloodring..... but the other 2 have growth!

A question..... I have one egg that has a crack in it when I candle it. But it also has a chick growing in it. Do I leave it??? Or do I take it out???

 

[Zookeeper9000]

I would leave it they also say to put a little wax to seal the crack not tons and just on the crack. Good luck

 

[Frizzledhen]

Hey Ang, you did a nice job on your bator. Hope you have lots of little peeps hatch.

 

[Guitartists]

Thanks

I do have beeswax... or does it need to be dripped candle wax??? .. I will do that. I'd hate to lose one to a tiny crack when it is growing otherwise.

 

[Guitartists]

Thanks... it took a while to get it all set up the way I wanted it. But so far so good

The hatch works well without letting all the heat and humidity out. I'm really glad I added it, allthough, reaching the eggs toward the back does get a bit tricky sometimes

 

[gumpsgirl]

Good luck with this! I too, would like to make on of MissPrissy's Chick-Chick Bators and I am really interested in how this hatch comes out for you. Please keep updating on how your little chicks are progressing.

Sending lots of hatching vibes your way!

 

[Guitartists]

Here are two candling pics! So far the 2 remaining d'uccles look good and these are the mutts. The EE's look good, but just do not show up in pics

These didn't turn out the greatest, but you can see the veins and the growth.

I will have to play with my settings until I find one that works for these kinds of pics

 

[Guitartists]

OMG!!! Little chickies inside really move! Like they're dancin a little dance

I guess I kinda thought they just laid there

 

[Guitartists]

Speaking of that.... should I be able to see that allready? Do eggs develope at different rates? Can some be a few days further than the rest? If so, how will this effect the hatching process?