- Dec 4, 2008
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Well, my eggs were set last Sat. I candled tonight since we'll be out of town for a few days (thank goodness for automatic turners) due to work. Of the 45 we set there are 5-6 that are questionable. The rest look pretty good! I have several brown eggs in there and they are so hard to candle. I can see a "blob" of cells but no blood vessels because the eggs are so dark. The tinted and white eggs you can see lots of vessels in but the brown ones...who knows at this point. I am picking up some BCM eggs from a friend on my return trip home so I'm kinda hoping a few more of these won't make it to day 14 so I can replace them with the new ones. If they are all looking good I might have to break out the bator w/o the turner but that is tough on my schedule since I am out of town one week a month for work. Might have to take the bator with me in the car LOL!
Overall I am pretty happy with what I saw today. I have 30 hens and only two roosters so I didn't expect that many eggs to be fertile. There were a few more roosters but they were culled for attitude problems. I am picking up two nice ones next week when I get the eggs. Hopefully we'll have some nice purebred BCM and Ameraucanas soon.
Do you guys sell your excess chicks? What do you do with all the chicks you hatch out? I mean, there is no way I could feed and house all of them even if I only hatched out ten a month. I'm thinking I could sell some now that I am incubating and help pay the chicken feed bill.
Overall I am pretty happy with what I saw today. I have 30 hens and only two roosters so I didn't expect that many eggs to be fertile. There were a few more roosters but they were culled for attitude problems. I am picking up two nice ones next week when I get the eggs. Hopefully we'll have some nice purebred BCM and Ameraucanas soon.
Do you guys sell your excess chicks? What do you do with all the chicks you hatch out? I mean, there is no way I could feed and house all of them even if I only hatched out ten a month. I'm thinking I could sell some now that I am incubating and help pay the chicken feed bill.