Day 10
I candled my 41 incubator eggs. 4 looked good (these were eggs collected after roosters died - one by my choice, one by illness or something-so I'm looking at them as last chance bonus). I have a few iffy ones, but a lot of "nothing" ones. Since every single d'uccle egg was infertile, I checked the broody d'uccle sitting on 6 more eggs... also infertile. So for the year, I got two d'uccle chicks to add to my sons' flock of 2 hens and 2 polish. Since there was still a broody bantam, I gave her the four good eggs. I'll keep the incubator going on the remaining blue eggs but I'm not holding out much hope - it's more to keep the incubator warm until the eggs with the broody start to hatch in case I need an emergency incubator (if I left the hatching totally up to my first broody, she would have only had 3 instead of 6 chicks because she was ready to leave the nest before all of them were finished hatching). Who knows, I might be pleasantly surprised. There's one egg that i couldn't see in, and two more that I could at least see the air cell but nothing else because they were green-ish instead of blue.
Oh well, I'll look on the bright side...broody can raise the 4 chicks (oops, I'm counting my eggs before they hatch LOL) and if nothing happens to the incubator eggs, I won't have chicks in the house much longer (the 2 1/2 week olds should be able to go outside by the end of September if not before).
CG
