Well hatching is over...... Started with 20 eggs.....3 was not fertile when candled at day 7. So that left me with 17. I now have 16 baby chicks, had one that didn't hatch and I opened egg up and poor guy looked deformed. Legs backwards and feet turned way in. So I'd call that a 99% hatch rate...
no you are correct. he PIPed the wrong end but so far seems to be ok. He is still moving around inside the egg so I hope he makes it out. I woke up this morning to 3 others that have PIPed. To bad I won't be home till tomorrow morning.
Came home to a PIP yay! The eggs that are hatching now are all different and mixed. Got them from a buddy since it was my first time incubating. My hen that I hope starts setting soon is a RIR. My next batch going into incubator is quail.
She is not setting yet. I've been stealing all her eggs due to not having a rooster old enough to fertilize the eggs, but now that they are getting fertilized I'm going to stop stealing the eggs. I hope she sets.
Thank you also found out some great news today. My oldest hen that I have left from buying 8 at a feed store has been laying for about 3 months now. I bought some more babies from a local guy and they was quite a bit younger then her. I cracked an egg tonight to use in cornbread and it had a...