Setting eggs June 3rd. Need hatching buddies! Lets have some fun!

[JakeBremer]

I'm also super discouraged... this is my first hatch and I just felt like there was so many different aspects to keep track of. I locked down 28 eggs yesterday and 23 definitely had movement. However, I feel like their air sacs are way smaller than that chart that I see floating around. I'm going to be devastated knowing that I had at least 22 live babies today, only to have them die before hatching. Has anyone else had smaller air sacs and still had chicks hatch?
Days 1-18 I kept the humidity right at 30%. Yesterday I bumped it up to 65%. It spiked up to 75% for about a couple of hours, but I vented and I got it back down pretty quickly. Now it seems to have leveled out at about 60-65%...
I just don't want to get my hopes up with those little air sacs...
Eta: I also forgot to ask, since I've locked down the eggs aren't moving or rocking or anything... should they be doing something??

They will ony start moving and rocking when they are either sarting to hatch or are hatching.

 

[Stephanie739]

I candle 7 white eggs, no movement at al!

it is day 14!!! But on the other hand i candled one of my eggs under the broody hen yesterday(It was day 5) And i've never seen so much progression on day 5 ever!

Have you had temperature problems??

 

[Whitepetunia]

They will ony start moving and rocking when they are either sarting to hatch or are hatching.

thanks, that makes me feel better!

 

[JakeBremer]

I'm so sad! I went to turn my eggs, and there was a crack all the way down the shell, so i figured it was dead. So i opened the shell to see what was up and i saw the baby chicke mocing its leg!!1 I killed a baby chick!!!

 

[JakeBremer]

Have you had temperature problems??

no.

 

[Stephanie739]

no.

Why would your eggs not be developing? Maybe they were asleep?

 

[Stephanie739]

I'm so sad! I went to turn my eggs, and there was a crack all the way down the shell, so i figured it was dead. So i opened the shell to see what was up and i saw the baby chicke mocing its leg!!1 I killed a baby chick!!!

Im sorry.

I duct taped a crack. I wonder if it would have been better to let it go...

 

[chippie]

I am at day 12 and I see no movement in any eggs I have 9 bantam cochin that I got in the mail. I will be so disappointed if I don't get any to hatch. My temps have been steady ag 9.5 and humidity at 35 only on one day did it drop to 25 then jumped to 45 then it balanced out by night time. Maybe they weren't fertile? Many were porous so maybe that's it? Not giving up hoping I am just not candeling right it is my first time!

 

[Stephanie739]

I am at day 12 and I see no movement in any eggs I have 9 bantam cochin that I got in the mail. I will be so disappointed if I don't get any to hatch. My temps have been steady ag 9.5 and humidity at 35 only on one day did it drop to 25 then jumped to 45 then it balanced out by night time. Maybe they weren't fertile? Many were porous so maybe that's it? Not giving up hoping I am just not candeling right it is my first time!

Do you see a dark area vs a light area? I can't see movement in my darker colored eggs, and unless they are white eggs, I rarely see anything but a dark space.

 

[Stephanie739]

wow my temp keeps increasing! This must be the chicks' doing, right? The chicks are generating the extra heat...I've been reading about that. I have the lid lifted now in effort to cool things off even while both of the extra vents I cut in the styrofoam are open. I have always had these plugged since getting my temp to stabilize in the beginning.