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

[vicki2x2]

I kept thinking there 18 also, so I went back and looked again. Then I remembered. Man, sometimes I think I am losing it!! I remember now, I left one dorking egg in the back to separate some eggs I put in, so I could tell them apart!! UGH! SO I checked it now and #8 is a good one!!

edited to say, I am not normally so scattered brained, but lately, I think I am missing brain cells!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

Whew!

I worry that my brain cells are addlepated sometimes...

I'm so excited for you both!! Aly, you should be seeing pips ANY time now!!!

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Nothing yet. I know they were all five wiggling like mad when I put them in the 'bator on day 18, so

pips pips c'mon pips!

 

[eschwaderer]

I always wondered how eggs would do coming from the west through the USPS. Amazing.

 

[Mrs MIA]

Eggs shipping FROM me do 100 times better than eggs shipped TO me... don't know what it is.

 

[Mrs MIA]

Anything Aly? I'm

waiting to hear...

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

No. Nothing.

I thought I saw one of the Mille's rocking...but nothing! Yesterday was day 21, too.

 

[Mrs MIA]

Mine were always hatching early! I think my thermometer might be off...

Hang in there!

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I expected they might hatch late, as I had discovered my temps ran low 2-3 days (like 5 degrees low) but they were still swimming on day 18 when I moved them to the hatcher.

I'll give them until Saturday.

c'mon chickies!

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

Well, today was day 23..so I decided to candle the 5 little Alaska eggs.

It looks like they expired after I put them in the hatcher. No one was swimming.

I won't say this test was a bust, we know they at least developed! So, I am pretty sure it's an incubation issue on my end that caused them to expire.

Good luck to everyone else trying to hatch their own Alaska Eggs!