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COChix

First incubation from flock

We will be setting 42 eggs from our mixed flock for hatching. We are hoping to be able to also utilize a broody hen or two for helping to hatch and raise the chicks. This is our first try at incubation and hatching. Follow along and enjoy.

04/09/15 - at 8:30 we set 42 eggs, we are incubating 14 eggs from a fellow BYC member - Percheron chick from the Colorado thread. The breakdown of what we are incubating is as follows:

12 - Amerecauna eggs from Percheron chick - Roo is a Blue Wheaten Ameraucana
2 - EE eggs from Percheron chick - BW Roo X Cream Brabanters
15 - EE X BO eggs from our flock
13 - Mixed brown egg layers X BO roo from our flock.

Broody update - nobody feel like sitting on eggs, they are too busy enjoying spring and gobbling everything green in sight and worms and bugs. We will see......

04/22/15 - candled eggs last night, don't have a true candler. Used my old IPhone light. Not the best pictures but at least you can see some, here are the results:

25/42 - total in incubator look to be fertile.

From our flock - 22/28 -
BO x EE - 11/15 fertile - it was super hard to see into the blue/green eggs.
BO x EE - 4/15 unknown status based on inability to see anything definitively either way.

From our flock -
BO x Brown Egg Layers (BR, Dark Cornish, Delaware, EE, RIR and Welsummer's) - 11/13 fertile.
BO x BRowns - 1/13 - unknown.
BO x Browns - 1/13 - clear.

From Percheron chicks eggs -

BW Roo x Cream Brabanter - 2/2 - non fertile.
BW roo x Amerecauna's - 3/12 - fertile.
BW roo x Amerecauna - 1/12 - unknown .

Will candle again before lock down and remove any non-viables.



Lockdown today 4/26/15 - 28 eggs going into lockdown

26/28 from our flock were fertile
2/14 from PC's flock


04/28/15 - first pip was around 4:18 pm today

04/29/15 - we have twelve pips this am. The first pip is working on unzipping now.
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