Anyone incubate an egg that you had very little hopes for after research but its thriving?

[gimmie birdies]

Sorry, I had a 3 egg yolker. One yolk was not fertile. One yolk quit on day ten as expected. The last one made it to day 17, which is amazing.

 

[Slothinc]

Update: Unfortunately didn't make it.

So sorry about your little one Hope the big egg is able to hatch!

 

[PhantomSlayer]

I candled the beast egg and sadly no movement and its day 35 i wanted to see a little beast. Continuing on through goose season.

 

[normbo]

I think my one incubator has a quirk, a filler tube in one corner, and a vent to the top, likely creates a trivial little airflow, that might leave an egg in one corner at a cool temp, then when I move the egg, it can start. While, chicks should hatch in 21 days, I've seen a few hatch after 30 days, but always just one, which I think is due to this design glitch in the incubator. it's weird to think about throwing an egg out, putting it off a few days, then having it hatch 10 days after their siblings. It also creates a problem, whereas, I need to keep the incubator going to put the undersized newborn back in so he can sleep every now and again, and babysit the chicks a bit more for 2 days or so.