She said/He said Who's right? Who's wrong? No one!

[NatureChica]

You too? I'm in VA pretty close to the coast, I'm hoping it'll veer away and head north but only time will tell. We live in a double wide so if it hits us hard some stuffs going to get messed up around here. My poor chickens are getting soaked so I'm trying to do the same thing your doing and get them all inside the garage for the weekend and hope they don't kill each other. I guess I'd rather them peck at each other a bit instead of dieing in a hurricane. And I have 29 eggs set and I'm scared to death the power is going to get knocked out and they'll all quit on me. We're trying to find a generator before Sunday incase it does go out but everybody has bought them all up from Walmart and most of the local stores so we've been looking on Craigslist for 1 close by. It hard to find 1 cheap enough that we can afford and that hasn't been bought already.

12 volt battery and this lovely doo hickey.... Power my bator in any outage.

 

[NatureChica]

The first time the power went out I snatched the batteries out of my kids powerwheels. Two 6volts = a 12v.

 

[rossfam06]

Hey y'all, I've stayed away too long, y'all can all smack me if you want, lol. So I couldn't stand it any longer and I candled today, it's day 4, and I saw my 1st heartbeat ever today!! And the veining is insane on some of these eggs already. All but 5 are showing signs of development and those 5 I think are just slow starters, the shells are kind of hard to see through on some of them but I think some of those 5 I could see veining but it was very very faintly so I'm calling them questionable for right now. So as of now I have 24 of 29 developing very nicely so far.

It's okay. I love looking at the heartbeats too!!

 

[meganhundley]

12 volt battery and this lovely doo hickey.... Power my bator in any outage.

We have a power inverter that we can use in a pinch so I think the bator will be ok. The problem is where we are, we're way out in the middle of nowhere so it takes days to weeks before they restore power. The last bad snow storm we had knocked the power out and it took almost a full 2 weeks for them to restore it.

 

[meganhundley]

It's okay. I love looking at the heartbeats too!!

It was the coolest looking thing! I didn't see the heartbeats with my last hatch, the eggs were so dark and porous I couldn't see anything in them til day 7 and it was hard to see then. So this is all new and even more exciting for me

 

[kwhites634]

It was the coolest looking thing! I didn't see the heartbeats with my last hatch, the eggs were so dark and porous I couldn't see anything in them til day 7 and it was hard to see then. So this is all new and even more exciting for me

I know the feeling... I set 6 mutt eggs from my own birds...candled day 7, tossed one clear...candled again day 14...light brown shells; never saw anything but air cells & a dark mass in any egg throughout the entire 3 weeks...no veins, no movement, nada. Having no idea what to expect, I locked down day 19, removing the turner & upping the humidity, & waited. Hatched 3, 1 DIS, 1 never developed.

Had never hatched chicken eggs b4, but I had nothing to lose except time & a little electricity, and it was a valuable learning experience. Now I've got to figure out how to get 3 growing chicks out of my basement & into an outside coop/run separate from the grownups b4 the weather gets too nasty. Looks like dog crate time.

 

[WVduckchick]

It was the coolest looking thing! I didn't see the heartbeats with my last hatch, the eggs were so dark and porous I couldn't see anything in them til day 7 and it was hard to see then. So this is all new and even more exciting for me

Just wait till day 10-14! That's when it really gets exciting in there!

 

[kwhites634]

Where'd everybody go?!

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I think the most exciting candle is (if you have light enough eggs) day 3-4 when you can verify veining and see what is viable, and day 10-14 ish where they are nice and active but still small enough to see...lol

 

[WVduckchick]

I think the most exciting candle is (if you have light enough eggs) day 3-4 when you can verify veining and see what is viable, and day 10-14 ish where they are nice and active but still small enough to see...lol

X2!