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Still winging it. Another EE just hatched. Now there are three. I did take it out and put it in the brooder with the others. I could not leave it in the incubator with the turners still loaded with eggs. So yes I'm "not leaving them alone" but I still have not upped the humidity. Still at 45% MOL. Normal hatch, no shrink wrapping. We'll see what tomorrow brings.  No pictures yet.  :fl


Good luck! I want some early babies! That would make me so happy.
 
Still winging it. Another EE just hatched. Now there are three. I did take it out and put it in the brooder with the others. I could not leave it in the incubator with the turners still loaded with eggs. So yes I'm "not leaving them alone" but I still have not upped the humidity. Still at 45% MOL. Normal hatch, no shrink wrapping. We'll see what tomorrow brings.  No pictures yet.  :fl


Best of luck! I hope all goes well, it sounds like it is. Sorry if you said this already, but how many more EE eggs are there?
 
I don't think there's an HOA in the entire county... Then again, I don't think there's 10,000 people (ignoring the incarcerated) in the whole county, either
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Truly northern California is nothing like central or southern, or even like the Bay Area, which is what most people think of when "Northern California" is mentioned. San Francisco's 6 hours south of here!

only been through on a plane but I have seen pictures that friends took who lived up that way saw a lot hard wood trees I was living on Mission beach it made home sick for TN. sell that postage stamp and get a bigger place
 
BYC ate my post so let's try again. I had the hubby take pictures of what I suspect is my roo. I have them side by side for comparison. I feel like his comb looks bigger than all others, I wish hubby got pictures of his legs, they are much thicker. He is overall bigger than the other chicks but it's hard to see since I'm holding them. What do you guys think?



I'd put money on roo on the right, pullet on the left.

It's the average. I'm supposed to be 4.3% for day 7 but I'm at 5.8%. You know, I really didnt even want to do the weighing. But I thought maybe it'd be fun. No...it's not. I hate It already!
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LOL. What I don't understand with the weighing the eggs, is they are loosing moisture, but the chick is gaining mass. I would suppose it would be figured in there somewhere, but it doesn't make sense to me and I haven't attempted to figure it out. I would have to say go with your instict. Many people who weigh swear by weighing and I've heard supposedly it is a more accurate, but I use the air cells and have had great success that way, so I have no interest in weighing.

I thought I would try the weighing as well with this hatch right now. I am over on three eggs only for total weight loss but I am on day 14. So I moved them around in the incubator away fFrom the heater to help minimize the loss of water. So I will weigh again Sunday night and make sure the air cells look good and the weight is within normal limits. Although I have some with really large air cells and are below their 13% weight loss limit. So I really don't know. But I do like it....gives me more of a challenge and working my brain with math. Lol!
Ugh!!! I LOATHE math...lol

I have to share this candling picture! Today is day 7. This egg inparticular is practically see-through, it's pretty amazing.
That is a great picture. And look...you can hold it in one hand and take a pic too!!!
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I thought I would try the weighing as well with this hatch right now. I am over on three eggs only for total weight loss but I am on day 14. So I moved them around in the incubator away fFrom the heater to help minimize the loss of water. So I will weigh again Sunday night and make sure the air cells look good and the weight is within normal limits. Although I have some with really large air cells and are below their 13% weight loss limit. So I really don't know. But I do like it....gives me more of a challenge and working my brain with math. Lol!
I'm really good a certain kinds of math, like algebra but %'s & decimals are NOT my thing! I'm thinking I'm just going to go by how the air cells look otherwise I will be worrying like crazy. My humidity is holding steady at 40% dry. I'll recheck air cells on day 14. What day are you on?.....never mind, you just said day 14....time for me to go to bed! :)
 
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What I don't understand with the weighing the eggs, is they are loosing moisture, but the chick is gaining mass.

No, no, no... Nothing is added. The chick's mass gain is from conversion (not the right word, I'm sure, but close enough...) of the yolk and albumin. Calcium for bones comes from the shell, which is why, in high school, we dissected eggs for embryology instead of having the eggs develop in jars (which some classes do, but you can't track normal development after a certain point).

Ironic--after how good I was at dissecting eggs a few decades ago, I couldn't bring myself to eggtopsy a few weeks ago--though that was as much fear of possible stinkiness than anything else.
 
BYC ate my post so let's try again. I had the hubby take pictures of what I suspect is my roo. I have them side by side for comparison. I feel like his comb looks bigger than all others, I wish hubby got pictures of his legs, they are much thicker. He is overall bigger than the other chicks but it's hard to see since I'm holding them. What do you guys think?

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Mine are almost 5 weeks old and I have a few different sizes, some bigger combs than others (even on smaller chicks) some fatter legs, only one with light-ish legs. So I'm still up in the air. I did notice a difference where the wattles will grow from. Some are wider than others, and some are getting red.


It's the average. I'm supposed to be 4.3% for day 7 but I'm at 5.8%. You know, I really didnt even want to do the weighing. But I thought maybe it'd be fun. No...it's not. I hate It already! :(


I like weighing, and charting etc. 5.8 average is not bad. I weigh each one, because I dont incubate too many at a time, and it lets me know if there is one or two swinging the average. If I have one high or low, I move it with one on the opposite end of the spectrum.
 

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