We have another hatcher! It's a beautiful black and yellow one. This one screams Ayam Cemani mix (probably Orpington). Hatched from a medium brown egg.
I opted to meddle and added the tiniest of safety holes to the 4 olive eggers. Something feels off about those eggs. They are the only ones that haven't pipped yet even though I can hear them tap tap tapping. I think it's one of these causes. The egg shells are too hard. If so I've only had this happen 1 other time. In my mind this is very rare but can happen. These are eggs are small and incredibly round. Almost like turtle eggs. Not the best shape for hatching but I bought them as table eggs. So I can't really complain. Maybe the chicks grew too big or otherwise unable to get in proper position because of egg size/shape. Whichever it is I won't intervene again tomorrow morning at the earliest.
I opted to meddle and added the tiniest of safety holes to the 4 olive eggers. Something feels off about those eggs. They are the only ones that haven't pipped yet even though I can hear them tap tap tapping. I think it's one of these causes. The egg shells are too hard. If so I've only had this happen 1 other time. In my mind this is very rare but can happen. These are eggs are small and incredibly round. Almost like turtle eggs. Not the best shape for hatching but I bought them as table eggs. So I can't really complain. Maybe the chicks grew too big or otherwise unable to get in proper position because of egg size/shape. Whichever it is I won't intervene again tomorrow morning at the earliest.
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I also have a meeting this evening for 3 hours. It's unavoidable so I just need to relax and be grateful they're hatching so well. 
, had to take one of my six out of the incubator last night, knew it didn't make it, have 2 that I am fairly sure are quitters, the other 3 I am hoping for hatch on Sunday, they will be a NN over a NN, my Charlie as daddy, he's white and then one of my black NN's, we'll see what kinda colors I get.
