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Day 17-chicks are hatching. It's the earliest hatch I've had in 50 years. She is a serama.

My little serama is brooding. Six out of eight eggs are developing. Due to hatch towards the end of the month.

I have chicks hatching soon(serama). And I'm hoping my new serama will go broody soon. Both her and the rooster are really small. I took a peek in the nest today; the eggs look more like pigeon eggs. Since she is small I don't expect her to lay many more eggs. Good luck to everyone that has...

Last spring I was angry over a badly damaged box of shipped egg. Quite a few were broke and the contents was all over the other eggs. When candled almost every egg was scrambled. A few had broken air cells. It had been a big order involving dozens of eggs. In the end my wife ended up with four...

I kept five of the young with the hope that they will also brood their eggs.

Twice last summer I had a Japanese quail hen hatch ten chicks. I fed them a mixture of boiled egg, dried meal worms, and mash. All twenty chicks grew to maturity. Some people doubt that I had a quail actually brood and raise chicks. The hen hatched the chicks in an outside pen. I brought the...

I wish there were more people like you in the postal system. As I remember the packaged eggs I've received in the mail, It's obvious that there still are workers like my brother and aunt. Thankfully my relatives no longer work as postal employees. Thankfully I have gotten eggs through the mail...

Many years ago I had an older brother and aunt who worked at a post office. They laughed about taking packages with fragile items and throwing, shaking, dropping them. I never saw how they thought their actions were funny.

Temperature aside, if possible, make the drive to get the eggs. Better than the mail where packages are just another object and are not cared for. Eggs can take quite a bit of abuse before the air cell is broken or the egg is scrambled. When my family moved here, TN, from WI we had a broody in...

If you are going to order eggs through the mail, try to find a place as close to you as possible; less chance for the eggs to be damaged,

Waiting for temps to stay above freezing; me too. I'm hoping to get some serama egg when the weather is safe for shipping.

My wife has done staqgered hatches in her bator. She simply removes chicks as they hatch.

Candling eggs at the beginning does help eliminate damaged eggs. Cracks and weak/ malformed shells are not always easy to see. I never candle my own eggs at the start; only shipped eggs. With my own eggs I candle at the 5th or 6th day and discard those that are clear or have DIS.

101 at the top of the eggs. Shipped eggs are a risk but fun it is. Sometimes I have had good luck and sometimes not.

We hatched many chicks in an incubator similar to your in appearance. We also had many disappointments. Now we use broody hens. We have two hens with chicks at this time and one serama to hatch around the 6th. I believe in candling. With the incubator it eliminated exploding eggs and waiting for...