Eggs - day 12! Pictures!

Well I've been having plenty of incubator troubles today. I think the room it is in is flucuating a lot, plus the humidity keeps dropping to 31% - So I tried increasing it, and it shot up to 43%!! Plus the temps got to 104 degrees today. . . If the chicks aren't dead by now, they're traumatized. Anyway, here's the eggs. Most of them are Easter Egger/Wyandotte crosses, and with the days so advanced, I'm pretty sure if any - I'm only getting the two when they hatch.



Here's a shot at candling - This is one of the two fertile and developing eggs at day 12. If you look closely and carefully, you can see the baby chick inside at the very top, sort of curled in a fetal position. This one in particular doesn't move much, but the other one is a wild little dancer.



And, here's the mom and dad. Mom is Llena/Goldenrod, hence the "goldenrod" marked wing for identification, and dad is our only roo, Marc Antony. Very curious as to the outcome of them.




All these photos were taken today. Marc Antony no-longer has his weekend vacations, and is instead open to wander with the girls. The rooster pad idea was scrapped, and now the girls get what once was going to be their building. The shelves that are already in it currently serve as really good nesting boxes, but apparently - According to the eight eggs found underneath the future goat's bed in their barn, the barn is a better place.