We just completed our day 14 candle. We started the incubation with 18, discarded a porous shelled egg at day 7, and just pulled 3 quitters....so continuing on with 14 (elementary chicken math I can handle)!
This is our first experience incubating...we are using our own eggs. Had to go look up youtube videos to try to verify what we saw...the second-guessing is agonizing! At day 7 we worried that we stopped one that could have gone on...day 14 we are worrying that we may have missed a quitter, especially as the three we pulled had definitely quit. It is some comfort that we made fairly swift decisions about the ones we pulled. On a bright note, all air cells looked of appropriate size...we think