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Yeah Peachie O! Keep growing sweetie! 🍑

Yeah, trying to work out the logistics and it seems so much more of a hassle than candling the incubator eggs. I think I’ll just try to leave her be. Thank you!

I did mark the eggs, and will plan on checking daily to remove any new ones. Do you take all the eggs at once inside to candle? And she has no problem with that? Or head out to the coop with a flashlight at night? 😂

Just put some eggs under a hen that hasn’t laid or left the next box the last few days. I haven’t hatched under a broody before. Do I ~have~ to candle the eggs? Or can I just let her do her thing?

Candled the eggs today, of the 12 only one wasn’t developing. My daughter also dropped one. 🙃 So we’ve got 10 eggs in the homemade incubator going strong.

Incubator is out for delivery! Setting these eggs this evening. All available except #1

Yes absolutely! ⚡️

First go at a hatch-a-long! We lost our awesome Blue Copper Marans roo, Robert Snagclaw, so I’m trying to hatch as many eggs as I can while I still can. These eggs will be set Tuesday 5/21 and due to hatch 6/11. I have another incubator coming, so I’ll likely start another dozen when it gets...

Well praise the Lord! That’s fantastic!

I would love #17, Peachie O 🥚💕

Constructed a very rudimentary temporary incubator until the new one gets here (and ordered a second additional one as a backup for the future). Temp is currently maintaining right at 100°, haven’t gotten the humidity dialed in but not as concerned about that. The eggs spent probably 4-5 hours...

I will give it a shot! Thank you!

I just have a cheapy Chinese incubator that’s giving out on day 7 - my husband thinks faulty wiring. Amazon is sending a replacement but it won’t be here for four days. Is there anything I can do for these eggs? I’d be happy to let a hen sit on them but don’t have any broodies.

We once had a raccoon pull the leg clean off of a chick through the wire

Here are some that I can clearly see veins.

Newbie at this. I have 12 eggs in the incubator right now on day 6. The other 8 have a lot of clear, obvious veins. I’m not really sure what I’m looking at with these ones though. Sorry for the low quality pics.

Yes, the one I have does have an automatic turner! All things considered I think it’s sufficient for what I need. Good to know! I will do that instead. I would definitely expect a decrease after the time, but would also like to maximize odds!

Thank you! That’s my plan for candling this time around as well 😊

I did! It was a little more difficult to tell because I had some dark green eggs in there, but four of the five were pretty obviously no good and I had suspicions about the 5th. We opened them up and two looked as though they never started developing, the other three stopped around day 5/6.

We lost our rooster unexpectedly the day before our first batch of incubator eggs were due to hatch. We ended up with 5 out of 10 healthy little chicks! Of the remaining 5, 2 never seemed to start developing, 2 stopped around day 4-5, and 1 made it maybe a little further. I wasn’t planning...