Official 2020 BYC Halloween Hatch-Along

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I have a question for hatchers who candle. What kind of candler do you use?
I use a flashlight with 600+ lumens and the lens removed so the egg fits down in the bezel. Since most of my eggs are dark, I don't candle often and therefor a candler wasn't ever a priority but I may invest in one.
I use a Brinsea Ovaview. It is good, I think it would be harder to see through dark eggs though. We have white Polish eggs, but I think if we had Marens or OE eggs I would look into a brighter flashlight situation.
 
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I did our 14 day today, I am worried that the air cells are a bit small so I am running it 10% lower for the next couple of days. Everyone still alive amazingly enough! 7/7 babies, I am amazed at how good these shipped eggs are, I had expected a couple quitters.
 

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Question: I have one egg that seems to be much further than the rest, pretty large and palpitating. Is this speedy development normal or abnormal? Eggs were set 10/11 fyi.
Not normal unless it spent some time in the nest and there was early development from hens sitting on them. That occasionally happens or sometimes happens if ambient temps spend much time in the 90s.
Eggs kept at the same temperature can't have an embryo chop of several days from the time it takes the others to hatch.
If chicken eggs are turned frequently, kept at precisely 99.5F/37.5C and are from breeders with good nutrition, you can pretty much set your watch and calendar by the time and day they hatch.
Same goes for most other species.
 
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Just wanted to share, I’m done hatching for the year (finally!) with a successful hatch of the 3 hedemora eggs that developed out of 6 that arrived The rough handling with our mail carrier made me hesitant to even try but since I really wanted a few more... haha. So here they are!

Justice: (spitting image of Verity, my original bird that triggered me buying more)
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Honour:
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Mercy:
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🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 Now hopefully I’ve wound up with one cockerel out of these guys. Haha.
 

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