I didn’t update last night, oops! But yes - the power was off only for about 45 minutes. When it turned back on, the incubator temp had only dropped to 89.5 degrees internally which isn’t too bad for that long. Hopefully it didn’t negatively impact them! I can’t imagine that being any worse than...
OKAY - trying not to panic, our power just went out!! Very random and I’m hoping it will come back on soon. We are on day 14 of incubation. I wrapped the incubator in a down blanket to try and keep the heat in. Is that sufficient? Are there other tips and tricks for this? My husband is going to...
Well, I did an eggtopsy on Sophie after confirming she had quit. It was really sad for me. I don’t know that I could truly determine the cause, but I do think it had something to do with the porosity of the egg. I wondered on day 7 when I had candled, as I had noticed it was a lot more porous...
Fascinating! Sorry for the ones that don’t seem to be growing. That can be frustrating. I’m hoping some of your darker eggs are just hard to see in and there’s stuff going on in there. That double yolker or extra big one is interesting, if it’s just one, the baby has a whole 4 bedroom house to...
Unfortunately I think she quit, probably yesterday or the day before. I will candle once more before pulling it to verify, but the absence of veining usually indicates death. She looks much different than even day 7, where there was lots of healthy veining.
I’ll probably post a thread about it...
Videos!
Here are the two I took from day 7, we have Egg 11 “Lasso”:
Day 7, egg 7, “Annie Oakley”:
Day 12 (today), here are “Lainey’s”cute kicking feet!
Day 12, “Billy the Kid” kicking away!
OK OK, since everyone was TWISTING my ARM about candling again (lol by everyone, I mean ME), here are the results!
Sadly, I don’t think Sophie made it. No veining, just a dark blob in the egg. You guys let me know your thoughts before I pull it, but it looks significantly different than the...
Updating!!! We are on day 12, with a week and some change left to go. Super egg-citing! I admittedly have been peeking at random eggs over the last couple of days. Maybe I will do a formal candling update this afternoon! Or perhaps tomorrow. Maybe both. 🤣 probably today. I’m not good at this...