Ugh... pretty sure I’m only going to be 1 for 12 😭(pics)

[Stephanie8806]

Okay, soooooo many pictures!!! But here’s what I was able to “Narrow it down to” some cute hatching pictures for sure! Such a magical experience! After seeing only one that I thought was truly viable, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to ever incubate again, but seeing the process was so cool, it made it all worth it!

 

[Cerci]

Sometimes the problem is already IN the egg & not in the incubation process. If the fault already lies within the egg - not even the most bang on incubator will make a 'quitter' anything else but. So glad you got hatchlings though!!

 

[Chicalina]

Great update and adorable photos!!!

 

[Mellowmalt]

Congrats, I completely agree that those eggs did not look 100% to start with.

If you look at picture 1, 2 and 4 I believe they all have speckles on the shell and if yu look at the air cell the air cell has become much larger in those eggs than the eggs without speckles.

This indicated the eggs were too porous to hatch well. Then your expereince and the timing of when they quit indicted the rest had a rough transport. Posting can dislodge the air cell which has been a death sentence for my eggs every time, I have heard people manage to save a broken air cell but I am not sure that is really possible.
Regardless, even if the air cell was not dislodged I've still received eggs that must have given the embrio a good knock on the head and this has usually shown around day 9 for me too.

So you got 3 in the end? That's not bad considering I think it was the infertiles and bad transport that caused the others not to make it

 

[Stephanie8806]

Congrats, I completely agree that those eggs did not look 100% to start with.

If you look at picture 1, 2 and 4 I believe they all have speckles on the shell and if yu look at the air cell the air cell has become much larger in those eggs than the eggs without speckles.

This indicated the eggs were too porous to hatch well. Then your expereince and the timing of when they quit indicted the rest had a rough transport. Posting can dislodge the air cell which has been a death sentence for my eggs every time, I have heard people manage to save a broken air cell but I am not sure that is really possible.
Regardless, even if the air cell was not dislodged I've still received eggs that must have given the embrio a good knock on the head and this has usually shown around day 9 for me too.

So you got 3 in the end? That's not bad considering I think it was the infertiles and bad transport that caused the others not to make it

Thanks for all those observations! This was my first time experiencing hatching of any type, and I felt like the candling was one of the hardest parts to interpret. I’ve read all the guides here, and I still wanted to be able to ask questions... I didn’t start a hatch thread or join a hatch-a-long here because I didn’t want to fall into a trap of checking too much.

And yes to the rough handling! I reached out to breeder and asked if from the pictures she could identify any place I may have went wrong, and she said the same thing of mailed eggs these days. So sad, I wish postage people took a little more pride in their jobs! She also thought that 3/12 was a good number, considering. Although I really wish I could have hatched one of the Amerucana(I’ve been struggling to be able to find them in stock for two years now ), I’m actually pretty happy with my results and everything I learned!

 

[Cecisflock]

They all look dead to me.

 

[Chicalina]

They all look dead to me.

3 hatched

 

[Cecisflock]

3 hatched

oh awesome! Happy for you!

 

[Chicalina]

oh awesome! Happy for you!

Not me, but the OP updated the thread

 

[mtma]

Congratulations!! Yes I agree that it was the eggs, not you or the incubator. That incubator is famous for incredible hatch rates! So awesome your son could watch.