September Hatch-A-Long!

[Heidisgran]

Honestly even with a candler I could not tell much till day 18. Then it was pretty obvious that something was happening in 3, especially no. 4. I never saw any veins. Ever. The eggs were brown and pretty porous. I had 6 shipped buff orp eggs from AL to NC. 3 made it to lockdown and only one so far is pipping. But bless it's sweet little heart I can see its beak. And hear it chirping. I am praying. Good luck, everyone! Thanks so much for all your support.

 

[NCChickchick]

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Starting to zip!!!!

 

[Nikki816]

My hatch is done, I need some more eggs, Lol.
Started with 21, 14 made it to day 10. 12 hatched pretty good for the first time

 

[DeannaA]

A porcelain silkie, the one who's butt broke thru the membrane on day 17, hatched today, 3 days early. It's so tiny.

 

[NCChickchick]

Congratulations!!!e

 

[familypendragon]

Picked up my new (used) Hovabator Genesis today and it works fabulously - can't believe how well it hold temps. I upgraded my Farm Innovator 4200 with an incukit from incubatorwarehouse.com and made it into my official hatcher. Took some serious diddling with settings but now its doing great. Just locked down my 9 mixed rare breed eggs a few hours early In my new Hovabator I have a large selection of Marans and Leghorn mixes - going for big blue eggers and olive eggers, and 3 Breda eggs - though I am very doubtful one will make it. I discovered after a few days that the air cell was forming in the pointy end due to spiderweb cracks in that end. I sealed it with wax but the vein mass is attached to the very top of the fat end of the egg. And I converted my LG still air with an incukit too and it is currently holding my Bielefelder, Sweet Potato Quechua and Colloncas eggs. I will probably shuffle them around here in a while so I can get my most important eggs into the hovabator.

I hope I am swimming in babies soon!

 

[chirpingcricket]

Good luck!!

Gosh...good luck everyone...sooo exciting!

 

[chirpingcricket]

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[KuroKitsune]

but my last 16 serama eggs into lockdown and 4pm or so....cant wait for them to hatch. have 5 babies currently in the brooder

 

[donmhill]

My name is Donna.....and i'm addicted to candling chicken eggs lol

Day 13 in the incubator Started with 8 silkie eggs, 1 was not fertile so went in the bin. Got 7 now all wiggling away happily :-D

Started candling at day 3 and now i can't stop Its been amazing watching them change so quick. Can't help myself, when i go to turn them over before i go bed i have to take a quick peek inside lol Only plan on candling 1 egg and end up looking through ALL of them just to check if they are all ok

Can't wait to see what an internal pip looks like!
Can't wait to see an EXTERNAL pip!
AND can't wait to see my little chicks

This is all completely new to me - i don't own any chickens....yet