When we got our 5 laying hens about 3 weeks ago, they had been living with 4 roosters. And of course this means fertile eggs which was later confirmed after cracking open an egg for a cake and seeing the 'bulls eye' which is the early sign of a fertile egg! So Dad borrowed an incubator from someone from school and we set it up about 24 hours before putting the eggs in so it had plenty of time to heat up.
And 15 days later, we just candled the eggs to see if they where alive and they are! It is so cool looking at them because you can actually see all the veins and we even saw them moving around! I'm also sure i saw some little toes in one of them.
I can't wait for them to hatch, it will be so awsome to have six little chicks running around. I will definatly add photos when their time comes to hatch!
Here is a website that I really like and has helped heaps, http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/candling-pics-progression-through-incubation-of-chicken-eggs
Enjoy!
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