Here's my little baby boy a couple days ago, the only one to hatch, he looked blue the first day, but since he dried off he's more black looking, I think he's going to be an interesting color when he feathers out.
Candled my 50 eggs on day 10, only 12 were viable, most infertile and a few, the tiniest smallest eggs had blood rings where it looked like the embryo died after a few days, don't know what would cause that in the smallest eggs.
Put 10
ebay pastel call eggs in the incubator today, plus another 20 of my own to fill it up, and put another add on
ebay to sell eggs since I don't have anymore incubator room, I think every day of nice weather and my 1 drake to 1.5 hen ratio, think the fertility should be improving drastically. The 18 eggs I shipped to Pennsylvania arrived without a single broken one, so my first egg packing experience was successful. The purchaser paid for 12 eggs and I shipped 18, so hopefully there will be 12 fertile ones, the eggs were laid after my batch of 50, so fertility should have been better.
Got a call today, my Aylesbury eggs are getting shipped from Indiana tomorrow, very excited about that!
None of the several eggs I've candled from my wild type mallard hen have been fertile yet, I think she is to big for the little tiny call drakes to get the deed done, watched some attempted matings to her, but she just walks around giving them piggy back rides, will keep setting them, and hopefully will get some fertile ones.
