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I lost a chick yesterday. One of the unknown breed chicks that hatched out of the wrong end. I suppose it was bound to happen though since he wasn't behaving the way he should have.

The little lav made it!!! Here he is! The little miracle lavendar orpington. I checked the bator in the morning and he was all fluffy and walking around. Thank you for the good wishes they really helped! Total for the hatch is 8 chicks. Pretty good for free eggs from a bunch of unknown...

Here they are all 4 of them. 1 porcelain Dutch, 1 blue orpigton, 1 EE, and 1 Peepers the 4th. There is 5th egg that has pipped and zipped almost all the way around. The Bator got unplugged and I think it was for too long, but at least something made and there is a lot of peeping still coming...

Nothing so far, but believe me I've been checking. I'm really not expecting anything until late tonight or early tomorrow morning. Got the brooder ready to go and I'll be setting up a second brooder as well. One for the large fowl chicks and one for the tiny bantam chicks. I've had problems in...

So far all is well. The temp and humidity are hold up and the eggs look like eggs from what I can see. There shouldn't be any action until late on Thursday since I set at about 8:00 in the evening. I was mainly able to score the eggs because I'm a 7 year exhibitor and everyone knows me. No one...

Today is day 18 assuming my calculations are correct! Thursday the 25th is day 21 so I plan on pulling an all-nighter.

I candled yesterday and the current number is 65 eggs that appeared to be developing. This is a pretty good number considering that most of the eggs probably weren't fertile in the first place. All is going well so far and it seems that everything will be running right on schedule. I'm so...

Candled on Sunday, but I was unable to really tell, because the batteries were dying in the candler. I purchased new batteries and I will be candling probably today sometime. The excitement is building, but I think most of them are duds, since a few candled porous. I just left them, cause I...

Trust me, I'm excited as well. I have a nice large brooder and I collected almost 40 orpington and dutch eggs alone. Hoping for a good hatch. I am also hand turning all these eggs since my auto turner only holds 40 eggs. Lot's of hard work that will hopefully give me good results.

Well, all is going fine so far. The temp and humidity are staying nice and even and there are no fowl smelling odors as of yet. Most of the poultry here in my county are laying hens kept in hen only coups. Those won't be anything to speak of, however, the orpington and dutch eggs I collected...

These eggs sat out in the hot sun for almost a week and are from unknown sources. None of those eggs would be chicky food here. I generally get about 2 eggs per day from my hens which is just the right amount. My hens do enjoy the occassional scrambled or boiled egg, though.

I am on day 6 of the largest hatch I have ever attempted! I currently have somewhere around 90 eggs set in my Hovabator forced air incubator. I am happy to declare that they all fit with a little wiggle room left. At the end of this year's fair there were 2 coffee cans full of eggs just sitting...