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Your kids are at a great age to appreciate a hatching egg! And young enough to be impatient.
But at the same time, no worse than us adults!
I hover over the incubator and count the days, and have confessed to candling as early as 3 days.
Good to hear your incubator is doing better. Mine was creeping up to 101, so I put a curtain up in the room and it stopped. It's a VERY well lit room, no curtains.. It's for crafts and plants, need the light!
As far as a dud egg goes, buy day 5 you should start seeing some veins. By day 10 there will be definite signs of life! That's when most toss the duds.
Are your eggs white? The colored eggs are a little tougher to see.
My last hatch was dark chicken, couldn't see a thing , and quail..
couldn't see a thing! It was frustrating!
Our eggs now are white and peach and it's exciting to see the chicks!
Gosh,
I'm so sorry to hear about the garden! Maybe restart it? I still need to get mine in. I know how you feel about the kids. Last summer the kids around here stole my solar lights from the front yard/garden. While we were home! I heard them bragging and laughing as they ran off! And this summer they smashed in the small fence around the garden. Bummed me out terrible and I let that bed just die.
If you do restart it, I hope it's a good one!
Here's another great link on what to look for in an egg!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261876
I candled the eggs again last night when the whole family was here - the kids & hubby about flipped out when they saw the little chick moving inside! I think my hubby was the cutest though - we were all in the bathroom cause it's really dark in there and he couldn't see over my shoulder cause the kids were in the way so he climbed onto the toilet so he could see better. My 10yo DD is so excited - I'm saving some eggs for her class to hatch out and now she knows what to expect to see.
I have 4 Serama eggs, 1 white leghorn, 2 EE ("mint-blue" eggs), and 1 brown (Golden Comet I think). I can actually see in the brown one better than the "mint-blue" ones. I think the white one is getting thrown out; I just see a yolk shadow with no veins or anything, Brown one is developing, EE's - no idea, 2 Serama's are developing - I think.
I can't wait to see!!!
Yeah, the garden...I was really excited to get my winter garden going because my summer garden flopped because I have horrible soil (all clay). Then these dang kids. These are the same kids that entered my Serama (4 little ones) coop while I was at work...either the dogs got them & ate them feathers and all or they flew away somewhere.
AND the same kids that were poking sticks into my Jap coop. And the same kids that climbed my fence & smashed my duck eggs. So, I feel that my rage toward them is fully justified. It's all I can do to keep hubby from flying off his handle & starting a battle of the neighbors.
I am watering a bit every morning...hoping
that there was enough root left to regrow at least the bell pepper plant & the peas. Lettuce I can do without. I'll replant the carrot & cuke seeds.
I can't believe those kids had the audacity to take your stuff while you were there. I really wonder about the parents of these kids...time for a soap party!!!
Thanks for the link
I say turn hubby lose on them, there is no call for that behavior from someone's kids....
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