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Everyone is still kicking! The two problem chicks are doing better now but appear to be stunted. Here’s to hoping they are still able to grow into full size adults.

Everyone is doing well other than the last two I had to help. One acts like it is blind and the other has some leg/toe issues that I think I can fix. The one with leg/toe issues has eaten and I've shown it the water. It hobbles around pretty well despite having it's legs tethered together. The...

Well change of plans. I had to assist the pipped egg as it was not able to zipper properly, it was trying but all it was doing was a sort of vertical widening of the hole. I helped it out but it has some sticky goop all over it. There was no blood and no yolk so it was ready to come out. I also...

2 more added to the brooder this morning! The green egg hatched as did one of the wrong end pips (a light cream egg). I heard the distress peeping at night and had to wake up both times to give them a hand, one was wedged just right between the egg cartons and the other was just sitting in the...

5 are hatched and in the brooder. 3 are pipped, 2 are internally pipped (one being the large air cell shipped egg) and the last 3 are still doing nothing much. Here are the first 5, the two cleanest yellow chicks are from the shipped batch.

Morning update, 3 have hatched and there are 5 others who have pipped. I had to help one chick that got stuck zippering, come to find out the membrane got dry and stuck to it's little wing/back feathers. It seems fine so far, just needs to fluff up. The other two got moved to the brooder. 2...

So far 3 pips (one on the wrong end) and one chick pipped and hatched within the 6hrs I was away from home.

One of the brown eggs is internally pipped! Saw a shadow while candling and got it to respond with some chirps. As for the other eggs, I feel like the veins and fluids are starting to recede a bit. The few big veins I could see around the air cells are looking less apparent and it's a bit...

Locked down today with 14 eggs at 65% humidity. 12 I know for sure are developing, 2 were removed, one being from the road side stand which ended up being a quitter (blood ring, no notable embryo). The 4 shipped eggs are looking good for the most part. One does have a huge air cell, about 1/3...

10 more days! I've just finished candling and sorting out all the quitters/duds. 10 for sure are kicking around inside and I left 4 others that I just can't tell. 4 of the 10 shipped eggs are still going, at least 4 were quitters after about a week in. Of the road side stall eggs that were not...

Humidity is staying at a stable 40ish% and temp is between 99.5 and 100. I've been tilting the incubator several times a day. It's been a week or so now and admittedly I've been candling them since day 2. I saw development as early as 3 days! Looks like at least 8/10 of the large breed shipped...

Well, I just set 34 eggs down in the incubator! 10 of the large breed mix and 24 from a roadside stall (some had been in the fridge for a while). I decided to dry incubate them vertically which also allowed me to fit several more than if I did it horizontally. They will be turned simply by...

I'll probably buy another dozen on Monday and leave a note in their money box with my # and some questions. Less uncomfortable than knocking on their door ;) After chatting with a friend who said she would likely take any extra chicks, I've made plans to use the full capacity of my incubator...

Seeing as my last hatch from shipped eggs was only 8/17 of those that made it to lock down I kind of want to compare to non-shipped eggs. I've been contemplating incubating eggs from roadside stalls for a while now after noticing the fertility was pretty good in the last few dozen my dad brought...