I'll be sure to send you my info. Lol what kind of chickens do you have?LOL PM me your info so when I slip up and say something mean again( BY ACCIDENT of course) I'll have your info to work out shipping arrangements.Or it get's warmer outside --hehe
LOL that's all I can say. Haha
yes, what are you going to do with all of the chicks? @boskington what breeds did u set? I may be I interested in a few
Awww.Down to only one egg in the HAL. I'm not surprised, since I only started with two, and we had a power outage, but still a bit disappointing
I candled and only one egg is developing! AHHH!!!! What do I do???? I've never raised a lone chick before. Anyone wanna sell me a few chicks to keep my loner company?!?!?!?!
No I have never shown yet. We are planning on showing some this coming year. All out birds are now exhibition lines.
This is some not so good pictures . But remember there is no such a thing as a perfect bird. All have faults . You just strive to improve on the quality of them and keep a standard.
Personally, with the location of the damage, I'd feel better about wax.. Maybe even clear tape?? Others will have more cracked-egg exp than me though. Good luck!!Here is the picture of the damaged egg. I candled it and it does have veins .What do I do? What do I do?
Will nail polish fix this?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/newestpost/861788Candled and tossed 4 very clear non-starters. Pretty high fertility for this time of year and chilly weather. There were a few I wasn't entirely sure on, but I left them. I always pencil sketch the air sac edge onto the shell so I can be sure they are progressing correctly next time I candle. Anyone else do that?
that leaves 38 eggs in the bator and only 6 chicks spoken for out of this first hatch.. DH is being quite the enabler. He keep telling me to set more eggs. I had to remind him that the turner is full. I told him that to continuous hatch I'd need a dedicated hatcher. Now he wants to make one. Pretty sure that will end up being this weekend's project so I can get it up and running and test how well it holds humidity and temp. If it holds well, I might hatch port of my HAL eggs in there - not all of them though - just in case.
I'm thinking of of taking a a big thick styro cooler like they use to ship fish to pet stores and a 150 watt rough service bulb and some hardware cloth to make the thing. I kinda want to get a dollar store photo frame to make a window in the top cause I just gotta be able to see what is going on during hatching. Pretty sure I can make it for next to free with mostly stuff we already have. Anyone got any good tips who have built one?
