The thing with dry incubation is you don't have to worry as much about the chicks drowning, probably more of a concern for shrink wrapping if the humidity isn't high enough at lockdown. I only do dry incubation sometimes my humidity will drop very low. But average 20-40% and then i try to up it...
Coming up on lockdown and about to discover if I can get wonky eggs to hatch! On the opposite end I can see veining and movement. Going in with 13, sounds like a lucky number to me!
Looks like I have my first casualty... It's being incubated upright and all the others of this color have good veining throughout and in the bottom of the egg too, but this looks like lumpy blood ringing on one side and has no veining in the bottom.
That's exactly what i told the seller... If I need her to send more because these don't hatch, I asked her to be discreet in packaging and no "hold at post office"
Ohhh I hope so... Expensive eggs to be so cruelly mistreated by the post office. 5 were broken upon arrival and the box was dented, I'm going to wait and see but we've already filed a claim and if none hatch I'll have her send new ones. I swear if you mark something "fragile" they go out of...
Aggghhh! Well someone in my local poultry group hatched them and didn't mention anything like that, she has pics of the adult hens, but I'll keep an eye out for pecking!
Joining late! I've got 14 eggs in the bator due on Easter. 5 from Whole Foods which are developing perfectly and will be Leghorn x's and 9 shipped colorful eggs 8 of which have horribly wonky air cells and were mistreated by the post office, so we'll see. When I realized the air cells were...
June I hatched her myself, I just looked it up... She is at least 6 months... Same age as my OEs that are already laying, but in my experience EEs take a little longer to lay. The reason I began questioning was her charging/herding behavior, which I guess she's just taken the roll of flock...
Ok I just searched black sexlink images and there are some that look very similar... @Jacquieh If it is a "black sexlink" then it is definitely a girl because they are bred where only the girls are black
Haha! I was gonna say... That doesn't look right! Could be mixed with EE and and a single comb bird, it doesn't look like my black sex link at all... Do some already have that much red at that age? If it's a sexlink cross there is a chance it could still be a roo, right?
@Jacquieh As chickens...