I have had my first incubator going now for 15 days. This weekend I dropped and cracked one of my two duck eggs. The remaining one is six days old and looks like this:I have one chicken egg that is 15 days old and you can barely see the baby chick in there because it is from a cuckoo maran and the egg shell is very dark, but you can see it nonetheless. I have another egg that is not quite as far along but you can still see the dark that is alive.
I have three eggs that I believe are nothing. No chick, no breakfast, probable fish food.
It is very exciting but I am still nervous about bothering them too much. This is only the second time I have attempted candling them. I don't want to handle them too much.
Maybe someday I will have a duck or a hen that will be broody and take care of this for me. Until then, I have the small 7-egg incubator on a nightstand behind my closet door to stay warm and dark. I also have a large 48-egg foam incubator that is available when I want to hatch out a whole flock.
(The wrong incubator got ordered and it was going to cost almost $70 just to mail it back. We just kept it for the future.)
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