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No luck with the dorkings, looks like they quit at about day 15. Next lot due in around a week.

I have Barnevelders pipping and hatching this morning, can't see anything happening with the Dorkings yet. Come on little Dorks!!

Just put six SG Dorking eggs in the hatcher along with four Barnevelder eggs. Here's hoping they all hatch ok

I have 6 SG Dorking eggs in the 'bator now at day 8. I candled them and just one is not looking 'right', so hopefully the other 5 will continue to develop. I also have another 10 to go in tomorrow along with 14 Barnevelder (double laced) eggs. Chicks everywhere before I know it!

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain : Oops... I'm sorry, I should have mentioned that you have to watch them. They usually start weeping within the first 48 hours if they're going to. I'm so sorry... Glad you caught them in time, though... Hey no, I didn't mean anything by it. It was worth a shot, but...

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain : I would have set the ones with the ruptured air sac... those can still hatch if given the opportunity to settle and you handle carefully. But that's very nice of them to send replacements. Good luck with the 6. Quote: Topping up water in the 'bator last night and I...

I left the eggs with the ruptured air sac to sit in an egg carton overnight and did some reading up and decided to set them and see if anything develops.

Well that could have gone better, eggs arrived this morning. I opened the box to be greeted with yolk smeared egg cartons. Of the 24 eggs sent three were smashed, three were cracked, twelve have a ruptured air sac. So only 6 in good enough condition to set in the 'bator. The sender is...

Tasmania, Australia. A long way from you I bet..... I am going to have to edit my details to show I am in Australia I think

I have two dozen SG Dorking eggs on their way to me!!!! They are from only a couple of hours away so hopefully will be here tomorrow! Excitement!

I have been in touch with a small scale breeder only a couple of hours away and I am getting some eggs posted to me early next week. Silver Gray is the only colour available here in Australia that I know of. What are the chances of getting a different colour just show up in the breeding flock? A...

Quote: I have heard of incubating to 9 or even 14 days and candling and putting the good eggs under the hen so she is hatching them after only a week to ten days. Easy if you already have eggs in the 'bator though....

Sorry to hear of your troubles RareBreedFancier, I hope you can clear it up. I set 19 Barnevelder egg in the incubator today, I wont bother setting any Dorking eggs for a while yet as I am sure that they would not be fertile. I hope that they will be by November, then I will set every egg I...

Hi, I have been reading through all 107 pages of this thread and thought i should join in and introduce myself. I too am from Australia and have three SG Dorking pullets and unrelated SG Dorking Cockerel. The girls have just started laying but my boy isn't crowing yet and the three girls tend...