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I order 24 Lemon Cuckoo Orpington Eggs well they hatched and I got 16 to hatch 2 had bad legs and didn't make it. there are 7 Males and 7 Females 

Below is the only Fertile egg I got out of 12 shipped to me.  He is getting so big

Ditto! Which just backs up my urge to lock down duckies tomorrow instead of Sunday!

I did a mass candling earlier, which is why I'm up so late. Takes a while to candle 84 eggs.

I have:

2 questionable BEI's. Can't see well enough to assess.  4/11 hatch

3 BEI's with wonky air cells, but babies are moving energetically.  4/11 hatch

1 runner duck quitter.  4/11 hatch

2 rouens with wonky air cells, but babies are moving energetically.  4/17 hatch

3 Saxonies with really wonky air cells, but also moving energetically.  4/17 hatch

1 Welsh Harlquin blood ring  4/20 hatch

4 Penciled Runners with wonky air cells, moving well.   4/17 hatch

Now for the less worrisome news:

4 Silkie ducks with different hatch days, all alive and active.  4/11 (1) 4/17 (2) 4/20 (1)

4 Welsh Harlequins looking good. 4/20 hatch

5 Rouens looking good.  4/17 hatch

4 Penciled Runners looking good.  4/17 hatch

8 mixed Runners looking good.  4/17 hatch

4 Saxonies looking good.  4/17 hatch

18 mixed Runners looking good.  4/11 hatch

5 BEI's looking good.  4/11 hatch

And the best news of all...

2 surprise Goose eggs looking good! 4/11 hatch

and...

11 of 12 eggs from my flock.... FERTILE!!!  4/23 hatch

My first black copper maran chicks I hatched 12 of 16 eggs Shipped to me.  there are 10 girls and 2 boys

the 4 infertile eggs with 1 Brown leghorn and 1 Rhode Island Red eggs

3 Pips this morning.  Eager little boogers.  They aren't talking to me though.  Eager AND quiet.

OMG, I'm outta control!!  I just bought 4 more grey dewlap toulouse eggs from the seller I got my buff dewlaps from.  So, now I have 9-10 goose eggs to set first thing next week!

Good thing I'm getting ready to toss all but 2-3 SA eggs from the bunch I set 8 days ago.

my first hatch, 7 hatched, 2 were dead and 1 infertile, i guess 70% aint too bad

my first hatch, 7 hatched, 2 were dead and 1 infertile, i guess 70% aint too bad

Your pretty far away, I may just have to wait two years for your eggs. Those people never get back to me about the dewlaps, so I fiinally gave up on them.

I'm glad its pipped, hopefully some others follow suit real soon!

Where Julie? Any between us? 

Dutch, I am pretty excited about the dewlaps!  Can't wait for my 1st set of buff dewlap babies to hatch in about 10 days.

On a different note, how's your horse doing??

Pitiful...feel so bad he's in such pain.  But he gets around.  I let him out for grazing during the day, then lock him up at night.  He spends most of the night laying down, which is good rest for his foot.  I changed his dressing last night at feeding time, and there is pink flesh and granulation happening....but it's going to be quite awhile before the wound fills in, it's so deep.  You know a would like that gets really ugly before it gets better...

Got my fingers crossed your dewlaps hatch alright!    I want a pair of the grays, dangit!