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A show of hands feet

Nice video!

Excited for you Jaye! Fingers crossed here

What a thrill! It never gets old. It's still astonishing to me that you can add a little heat to an egg and turn it into a baby chicken!

Congrats

Looking good!

KimChick wrote: ↑

Wed May 01, 2019 8:59 pm

Nice video!

Short but sweet. DH took videos of all of them as I candled, but I liked this one best because of the little feet showing up.

Happy wrote: ↑

Wed May 01, 2019 10:17 pm

Excited for you Jaye! Fingers crossed here

Thanks! We are fast approaching the nail biting phase: Day 18 is this Saturday.

windwalkingwolf wrote: ↑

Wed May 01, 2019 11:00 pm

What a thrill! It never gets old. It's still astonishing to me that you can add a little heat to an egg and turn it into a baby chicken!

IKR? It's an amazing thing to witness, right from first candling. As of the last time I candled at Day 15, there are 7 that may potentially hatch if all goes well. All 5 of Biscuit's eggs were NF (no surprise there actually), 1 of Cilla's eggs was NF, and there have been a total of 5 early quitters, 2 at Day 5 candling and 3 at Day 7 and 10. The quitters were sad to see, especially the later ones.

Kbr42 wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2019 9:20 am

Congrats

Thanks!

kenya wrote: ↑

Thu May 02, 2019 10:09 am

Looking good!

I fired up incubator #2 yesterday. Hopefully it will come up to and maintain temperature, so that I can use it as a hatcher.

First early surprise chick, hatched in the hour and a half we were gone to the dog wash! I thought I heard a few cheeps before I left, but didn't see any egg movement or pips, so I chalked it up to hearing birds outside. When we got home, we saw this little one. I was not expecting any to hatch before tomorrow.

Yay!!!
Happy hatch day!

Woohoooo!