Unfortunately I am well aware this baby hatched too early. And sadly it passed yesterday evening.
Also unfortunately, it looks like the other eggs that showed signs of life all quit. 14 fertile eggs that developed to at least day 18, and the only one to hatch was a chick that wasn't ready yet...
So, good news/bad news:
Good news: the chick I thought was going to hatch first hatched at about 5pm. We went from internal pip to unzipped in 24 hours. Egg was marked cuckoo.
Bad news: the chick has the biggest umbilical hernia I have ever seen. I'm hoping that somehow it's all just egg and...
Day 20+16 hours update: I have an internal pip on the egg I was sure would be first! Four more eggs have movement, but the rest unfortunately look dead.
This is the part I hate most about shipped eggs - you get right up to the finish line and then can have such a crappy hatch (With home-bred...
Well, it's officially the start of day 20 for my shipped eggs! 13 eggs in lockdown and I candled as I removed the turner (I turn through day 20), only 2 I suspect of being late quitters around day 17-18, one I have my eye on for being most likely to hatch "early", and the rest I wouldn't be...
Well, I'm day 16 for my shipped eggs hatch, and I've only had one quitter out of the 14 fertile so far. Everything else has nice movement and pretty equal development, so fingers crossed! Hatch date for those should be the 6/7th. I'm thinking of live-streaming the hatch on my TikTok?
I also...
Looks good to me! I have NR360's and have a 3d-printed divider that on big hatches gives the eggs less floor-space-per-egg than this, and it all workd out fine! I'm excited to see the fluffies!
Firstly, Merry Christmas to all who celebrate (even the non-religious like me who just like to have a good excuse to make Loaded Baked-Potato "Salad")!
Secondly, I have my January hatch Day 9 update:
Day 7 confirmed the results of day 4. 9 eggs were infertile, 6 were fertile but red-ring, and...
Ok, so I held-off on candling until yesterday and again today (day 4). I'm using the built-in candler on the NR360 as my good candling flashlight is at the coop, and it's just not as strong so I'm having trouble with a few, but for the most part here are my numbers:
29 Eggs total: 14 fertile...
I have 29 Silkie eggs I set today, due to hatch January 6th. They're from another breeder, a mixed bag of colors - Blue, Black, Cuckoo, Lemon, Lemon Cuckoo, Mauve/Chocolate Cuckoo, Mottled, Paint, Splash, White, and a few mystery eggs.