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Looks like we've ended up with 37 chicks this round. Found one that had dried in its shell (looked like a grey puff ball had exploded inside the egg), but within a couple hours of me helping it out, it was difficult to tell it apart from it's hatchmates. 😊 Though after losing power for a day...

Peeked in on the eggs in the old Sportsman this evening and we have chicks hatching! :yesss: I opened it only very briefly...but it was enough to see both chicks and empty shells of various colour English Orpingtons, BCM, at least two of the Lavender Ams and at least one Bresse.

Candled the eggs in the Sportsman before putting them on lockdown today. The BCM eggs were just a bit too dark for me to candle in the room I was in at the time, so I just put those all on lockdown. Of all the remaining eggs, 18 were not viable (several were simply clear). Ended up with 68 eggs...

I finally broke down and started up the old Sportsman. So far I've got English Orpingtons (Silver Laced, Chocolate, Blue/Black Mottled, and BBS), as well as BCMs, Lavender Ameraucana, Bresse (from 3 different pens), Mille Fleur D'Uccle, and Frizzle Silkie (only two have FS eggs though, so...