I have a bunch set to hatch tomorrow. I had set about 100, but when I went to candle on day 10, I noticed the turner wasn’t working. The brinsea has never had an issue before. Upon closer inspection, the bar with the notched tab that meets the turning gear thing was not aligned, the motor and gear thing had become unseated in its spot on the lid, and slid out a bit, so it was no longer lining up, so it was making all the noises, but not actually moving the trays. I lost about 40%. There were 61 remaining, but at least 10 were questionable. At lockdown, I found an oozing one with a crack, so I’m down to 60.
The celadons did better than the mixed group, I had about 65 set from the celadon pen, and the rest were from the celadon x celadon carrier pen. I only have about 17 eggs of the mixed group left, and the rest are the pure celadons. I fixed the turner on day 10, and it’s been fine since, I’m hoping for the best, spot checks at lockdown look promising. I have some of the snowie celadon project birds in the bator as of when I candled the ones that are going to be hatching, so In a week and a half I’ll have pure celadons coming from the project blue layers and a Tibetan tux celadon male. It’s exciting because when those hatch, I can keep some boys, I’ve been selling all the boys from the last 4 hatches because I can’t be sure they’re pure celadons. I did keep Apollo, and I plan to start testing him with some celadon hens and I’ll see if all his daughters lay blue. He’s so tiny and spunky and pretty I couldn’t part with him.
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They had a mix option that includes snowies, pearl fees, and German pastels. Some fun colors I don’t have 
