Set eggs Feb 17th anyone else?

I set 2 Aracauna eggs, 4 Ameracauna and 2 EE eggs on the 17th. They are so hard to candle that I normally don't pull any until past hatch time. These eggs are lighter than my own EE eggs though, so maybe.....
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I'll try candling anyway on day 7. They are shipped eggs so I'm hoping that something will hatch. Good Luck to everyone else!
 
Ya I know what you mean about the eggs being really dark. I candled some of the araucana when I got them to see if I could tell if the air cell was broken and how bad but most were pretty hard to see into. I think I will just end up pulling the ones I know have nothing and letting the rest wait till I know for sure or they hatch
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I had 1 silkie go last time till day 25 before it finally piped but soon after is when it started cheeping like it was in distress and I decided to open it, luckily in time. sooo idk I will probly wait till day 24 then candle and open any unhatched eggs to be sure. I would hate to think I was throwing away a live unhatched chick.
 
I had to get into my bator yesterday...Gota figure out a way to fix thermometers in place so they quite shifting when I rotate m bator.....
It was day 5

I candled 10 araucana eggs and 8 had veins
silkies I had 2 with veins
ameraucana I had 1
my eggs I had 7 out of 8 (I added a couple more but forgot to post it)(added 4 BR white silkie cross)

I wasn't holding out much hope for the silkies as they had such a rough ride, but the seller is great and said if I do not get a good hatch she would be happy to work with me and is willing to replace them for shippping cost or something if I want.
The ammeraucana seller has not gotten back to me yet..... It been over a week
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I'm guessing I won't here from them either since I did start my message with "Did you seriously think those eggs would make it?"..... They were so poorly packaged they were shifting around the box and a couple were broken! They were wrapped in bubble wrap but bubble wrap can only protect against so much.... and they wrote in very small letters at the edge of the box in black cursive hold at post office and my number, but it was over looked and they sat in my mail box for a couple hours in the cold.
 
I set my eggs on 2/19. I had just finished a setting of 28 eggs in January and 15 healthy hatched. 12 Easter Eggers/Amereraucanas I got the eggs from my flock which I purchased last year from McMurry's. All doing well. The other 3 are from my mixed flock.

The 2/19 consist of 24 EE, 18 Buff (from a fellow chicken buddies flock) and the rest my mixed flock. Total of 47 eggs set. Very excited. I have the standard bator that I am hand turning with my son 3x a day. I too am only going to candle 3x.

I have been following since you set your eggs.
I appreciate all the information
 
I set my eggs on 2/19. I had just finished a setting of 28 eggs in January and 15 healthy I have the standard bator that I am hand turning with my son 3x a day. I too am only going to candle 3x.
Which model/brand bator are you using? I have a still air LG. Last hatch I hand turned every egg which took quite a while to do. This time I am just using a roll rubber drawer liner and proping up 1 side of the bator. I am rotating all 4 sides each day so I am turning them 5 times, once for each side then once level with no proping (usually at night). Its making it very easy to do as I am home pretty much all day anyway and I don't do it every 2 hours religiously but when its been a while and I think about it I go turn em. No science to it. I am just taking this hatch as simple as possible not fancy stuff I am watching the temp and humidity but I have not added water yet and the humid. is down to about 38% I won't let it go as low as 30% but I want to see how long it takes to do so before I have to add water. Tmp has been steady and cold outside so my heater keeps my house at70` and my bator temp shouldn't fluctuate more than a degree up or dow which would still be in the safe zone so I am sitting on my hands and just trying to leave it be. It seems to be paying off and I am having 1 of the best hatches I have ever had.
This was advice from my grandpa. He said set it how i know I want it then leave it alone. They added water at day 18 but other than that they didn't do anything and they didn't open the bator for any reason. They didn't even use to take the clear eggs or the dead eggs out of the bator until day 25 when they cleaned it out. And they never candled : )
 
We are using a Hova-Bator. I too put my eggs on a shelf liner to help with turning. Goes much quicker.
I have two thermometers to keep a eye of the temp. I am having good luck with it going back up to temp quickly after each turning. I do keep the room that they are in a 70 degrees. I am going to candle them on Monday night.
Thinking of getting a couple of Nigerian Dwarf Goats. Anyone have any experience with them?
 
Candled my eggs and out of the 8 I had to remove 2 because of detached air sacs. Removed one EE and one Aracauna. The 4 Ameracauna eggs look great along with the other EE. The Aracauna egg I have left is very very hard to see in, but I think I see some veining.
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How often are all of you candeling? This Friday will be day 14, I've thrown out one egg because it looked 'bad', but I can't tell if any of the others are progressing. I can't see veins or any other things to compare to all the pictures I'm seeing.....any suggestions?
 
I candled mine on day 7. We were able to see which were fertile. We averaged better than 50%. The eggs came from my flock and a friends. The most fertile were my EE only 2 not fertile.
I will candle again on day 14 then just before I go into lock down.
 

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