Setting and hatching in December? Come join us! - Holiday Season hatch-along

i have a buff orph sitting on 12 eggs right now, hatch day is the 26th. and i am ordering my first bator on the 13th and i am so excited. and as soon as i get im going to fill it up. lol. I have 19 hens and 2 roosters right now.
 



This is one of my roosters on the bottem and a pic up top of some of my beautiful girls. enjoy!!!!!!!
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Ive got the coolerbator coming up to temp now, going to move all the hatching eggs to there so i can work on the ultrabator tonight... so pretty much I'm purposely going to allow 60+ eggs to chill while I work.
 
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OK. I've got the hatcher cleared out and cleaned so I can move eggs from the incubator into it to make room for the NYD hatch along. I will have to turn them by hand for a couple of days but that's OK. Tomorrow I'm setting 30 eggs in my cooler-bator at noon :) I did get one new chick from my broody splash marans today. She just keeps hatching and I keep taking them. I have gotten about ten from her so far and there always seems to be at least 12 eggs under her. Wonder how long she will keep this up? Should I just let her keep going or should I make her take a break?
 
Night of day 7 and I candled again to check on the ones I marked as question marks. And tonight out of 21 eggs I have 16 good eggs with great veining and most with embryo movement and then I have 5 eggs that are clear/infertiles. Im happy so far, though I was wishing all 21 were fertile. I wont candle again til day 14(I even gave DH my flash light so I cant peek early lol). I will dispose of my 5 clears come day 14 since I am not comfortable declaring them clear just yet since its only my first time incubating.
 
Upgrades complete. had to adjust the plans on the fly. 2x 225w heating elements. heating indicator light. 3rd turning rack. check. Now I'm hungry and ready for sleep
 

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