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Okay I couldn't handle it anymore. Since I have been hatching in an incubator for a year and a half now I decided to candle the eggs, I figured it had been 4 days I should be able to see something. Well I set her with 12 eggs in a cage well she broke one trying to move them into her own spot I guess but left the egg alone after she broke it. I am very glad to say she still has 11 eggs and so far I can see all 11 embryos moving. I told my husband that we were going to be grandparents since it is my 8 and a half year old sons chicken that is setting and he laughed at me. But that is to be expected since he didn't want anything to do with chickens and ducks until a month ago when I hatch a duck out and I was planning on raising it for eating purposes until he named it Daffy and made it his pet duck, and he thought I was bad with my very first duck I hatched out and named it oreo. He watches tv with his. I figure he will get more into this hatch closer to Valentines since they are due on Valentines day.
i also ordered chicks and got them on the 17th of this months but we got 1 out of 4 ducks alive and 1 chick out of 6 that we ordered but it was the wrong color, my daughter picked out a Blue Millie Fluer D'uclle and these are yellow bodies and orange heads the wings are orange now that the feathers are in, and we got like 2 or 3 of the chicks they put in extra just for heat. I called and they are going to try again, they are shipping again in about a week to two weeks. YAY I am excited and so is my 6 year old daughter she will finally have chickens that are her size that she can collect eggs from.
I will keep you posted and post pictures. Also I built my incubator with stuff I had laying around my yard and garage. It is an old bathroom sink cabinet that I put a board on top and on back and put shelfs in and a small desk fan at the bottom and a desk light with a 75 watt bulb in it and a big bowl of water and a thermometer that reads humitity and started practicing keeping it one temp. After 4 days I finally figured out how to keep the doors slightly ajar that the temp would hold at 98 to 99, I have about a 89 to 96 percent hatch rate. I have had 2 groups of 80 eggs that none hatched but I have set a total of 350 eggs in it at once and had 315 hatch out, the rest were either not fertile or they started and stopped very early. I need to buy one that is small just to hatch quail in since they are very small and get out of my big one.
That's awesome you seen embryos moving in all the eggs! Sounds like everything is on track. .....and congrats on the soon to be grandma title....
Sorry to hear about your chicks arriving like that! I hope the next ones arrive safe and sound! I'm getting 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes, 2 Columbian Wyandottes, 2 Speckled Sussex and 2 Buff Orpington, all pullets......25 red rangers......6 cornish cross and whatever mystery chick they send on April 1st. So I don't have to wait that long for chicks, I'm getting some from the feed store around the last of feb or the first of march, whenever they get them. From their I'll get a couple Red Star, Black Star, Rhode Island Red, Barred Rock and my first half a dozen or so turkeys. I wish I could of got a few turkeys sent with the chicks I ordered, but they don't send a few turkeys with chicks. Can't wait!
Dang...you're a chick hatching machine!....lol. Sounds like an awesome thing to do with making your own incubator! I'm going to try it for sure! ...and think I can have a good start going by what you mentioned there. Thanks for that, I appreciate it! Knowing how to hatch eggs out of an incubator will be another thing I'd like to cross off my list of things to know how to do.