Thank you!
Candled the eggs for the last time tonight and saw good activity in egg #11 and a tilt on the air cell that shows this chick is pretty near to being on time in her staging. Put the largest part of her air cell upwards.
Egg #7 shows good activity as well, air cell is progressing, though not exactly tilting to one side yet...I'm thinking this chick will be a day behind chick #11.
Egg #6 is the smallest and darkest egg, so very hard to visualize anything in that egg but I can vaguely see movement there and the air cell is exactly like egg #7...still centered well on the end of the egg but the appropriate size. I think this chick has less room to move around due to the smallness of the shell. I think this egg too will be a little behind egg #11.
I removed the feathers from over the eggs and added about 10-12 oz. of warm water to the soil beside/under the nest...not directly near or under the eggs. This is the last night they get turned. Temps are steady at 100.0...as I understand the incubation chart, that temp should drop down a few tenths in degree but I'm doubting I can get that exact with this method.
On the 21st day I'll mist the heating pad surface down with some water to provide a little extra humidity but I'm not going to go hog wild with it. If I can catch the activity at the appropriate times I'll try to film it and take pics when they hatch.
Between then and now I'll cut a piece of fencing to shape a small, low arch under one side of the heating pad so the new chicks can come out and go back in after hatching and drying.
It sure is neat seeing those little bodies moving around in the eggs and knowing they will soon be dry, fluffy little chicks in a nest. I'm praying they make it out okay and are healthy little boogers.
