*~Alaska to Ohio~*18 Eggs* Cold Weather Test Day 23, 0% Hatch.

[vicki2x2]

I was candling some other eggs in my 'bator tonight, and couldn't resist running the flashlight quickly over the dorking eggs, even though they have only been in there since Sunday morning. I didn't do them all, just a few, but I saw veins!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

I'm speechless!!!

Whew. I was so worried. I still am, until I hear that you have pips. Mine tend to hatch day 21/22... so be patient with them.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

We are on day 17!!!!!!

I am going to move them to the hatcher tomorrow morning!!

We have 3 Light Brahma eggs and 2 Mille fleur eggs..


My goodness this was a fast three weeks!!!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

I know, huh? I hope the next three go by even quicker... I WANT SPRING!!!!

Your millies should be spunky, and your brahmas will be fuzzy little chunks... I call them all Baby Huey until they grow out of their dumpy baby phase...

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I'm just

they all hatch!!

I want girls on the milles, boys on the LB's...

No, I am not picky at all..

But I've got like 200 chicks at my house!!!!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

200!!! wow. I thought I had a lot with ~ 30... of course, that's chicken chicks... there's a bunch of coturnix chicks in various pens all over the place.

OOOhhh... I hear peeps coming from the hatcher... my Dorkings are hatching...

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

YAY!!!!

Congrats on the dorkings hatching!!!

I'll have to try some Dorkings later this year!!

 

[vicki2x2]

Ok, candled my dorking eggs tonight, day 8. I confess, I forgot last night.

So, here are the results.

Egg 1 Pen 1 bood ring

Egg 2 Pen 5 broke in shipping

Egg 3 Lil Sister clear

Egg 4 Kate clear

Egg 5 Pen 1 nice red veins and a little wiggler!

Egg 16 Pen 1 clear

- note there wasn't a #6, but
was two #16, this one and the one from pen 5
Egg 7 Pen 5 nice red veins and a little wiggler!

Egg 8 Pen 5 there was no egg # 8
Egg 9 Lil Sister nice red veins and a wiggler!

Egg 10 Kate broke in shipping

Egg 11 Pen 5 wiggler & veins!

Egg 12 Kate clear

Egg 13 Kate clear

Egg 14 Lil Sister veins and wiggler

Egg 15 Pen 5 clear

Egg 16 Pen 5 veins and wiggler!

Egg 17 Pen 5 veins and a wiggler!

Eggs 18 Pen 5 veins and a wiggler!

So far, the eggs are looking really good!! For traveling as far as they did, in as cold as weather as Alaska and Michigan and all in between has, I think they are doing awesome!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Lessee... looking at my notes, your first #16 (after #5) is #6... 51grams, Pen 1. There should have been a #8... We're there 18 eggs in the package? Did I mess up? I could have sworn I had two bundles of 9...

I'm sorry if I did. But still, it looks like you'll have a nice handful of babies there, and for sure at least one male and one female so you can start your own little flock!

That's awesome!! I shipped those on 2/17... our low was 28°F, our high 36°F. I don't know what the weather was like in between us, but that's not bad... not bad at all!

Aly, yours shipped 2/5... out low that day was -1.8°F, and our high was 20.8°F. Still not bad, though you mentioned humidity problems that might have messed with the results. Still... you BOTH are having better hatches this winter than I did all summer last year...

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

All five of mine made it to the hatcher on day 18! We are on day 20 and nothing yet..I'm dying over here!!!