got 2 chicks in the brooder dryingnot sure if they hatched early because my temp gauge is wrong or if it is because they started incubating during shipping.
Isn't that amazing to think, that they were busy growing in transit? I read that the reason you see the little bulls eye on a fertile egg yolk is because the yolk actually spends about 24 hours inside the hen after fertilization but before the egg is laid, and the embryo is developing that entire time. So technically incubation is 22 days long, but only 21 of those days are outside the hen. And that the embryos are remarkably resilient, they stop growing when the egg temp drops below about 70, and then start up again when it warms back up. Apparently they can handle more cooling periods than you'd think and still be healthy! Not that I want to fiddle too much with the whole process and accidentally mess something up, but the whole thing is fascinating to me.