Candeling and hatching diary.

[mortie]

I don't mind eating them at all. Eggs are delish lol

 

[pinusresinosa]

This is the best: Fry an egg and a piece of ham steak, stick a piece of cheese on one of these things to melt it slightly, then stick all of that between two slices of toast.

Enjoy with a cup of strong coffee. Good morning!

 

[sasimpson77]

Ok so by the the time is was all said and done last night I ended up with 4 purebred maran eggs that came with 8 BYM eggs, 12 purebred Rhodebar eggs, 113 BYM eggs that are out of leghorns, marans, Americanas, and Red and black production, covered by the same breed of roosters, 7 muscovy duck eggs, and 46 jumbo quail eggs, and I set two of my eggs from my flock for a total of 193 eggs woohoo what a group the most I have ever set. I will have the following due dates from that batch.

Quail eggs = 04/02/14
Muscovy duck eggs = 04-19-14
and chicken eggs = 04-05-14

add to that the eggs that I already set (there are 123 of them

They are due on 03/21/14 and 03/27/14 and seeing as how eggs can at times hatchover a 3 day period starting 03-21 I could be hatching alot of chicks over the next month or so.

 

[mortie]

Wow! Mine started to hatch this morning and now I have 3 running around. 21 eggs to go!

 

[CooperDooper]

@Mortie - is today day 21 for you?

 

[mortie]

The first one hatched at the very end of day 20. We are a few hours into day 21 now.

 

[sasimpson77]

Wow! Mine started to hatch this morning and now I have 3 running around. 21 eggs to go!

Congrats Mortie my eggs always seemed to be late but I am thinking it will be different the next time around with my cabinet incubator temperature has been great with it also just got a new small incubator that I am trying out this is what it looks lik eI am very curious to see how it turns out.

 

[mortie]

So far we have 8 babies with a few more that are not far behind.

 

[sasimpson77]

I haven't gotten any candling pics in the last few days sorry been kind of busy Spring cleaning moved the chicks out of the living room what a relief hard to believe how load those little buggers and how big of a mess they make they are now on the porch and I added another box to there currennt brooder box so now they have two boxes the original one was about 4' by 18" and the second box I attached is another 5.5" and 18". I also did a test run with putting the almost 2 week old chicks in with the 4 week old chicks and it seemed to go OK so I am sure by the time I get my next hatches the young chicks will be ready to move up even my little special needs chick penguin. I can always hold him/her back if I need to he is still a lot smaller then everyone else but does not struggle with getting up anymore.

So I will candle for sure for the next two nights as my older bunch of eggs is due to go into lock down on Tuesday. I have to confess I do candle after lock down mostly because my eggs have been taking 24-25 days to hatch so I get worried. If I do not feel like this bunch is ready on Tuesday I will hold back on lock down. I will try to post candling pictures to show you what I look for to tell me if they are ready for lock down. I do know that at least one bunch of eggs that I had started in a cooler incubator will be late because I was not able to get them going at the right temperature actually ended up turning them off after I found out my cabinet incubator was coming.

Heard of people who incubate for a few days to confirm fertility before they ship eggs so knew it would be OK. Kind of curious if confirming fertility like that decreases or increases the chances of the eggs hatching. Anybody want to run an experiment with me? We can do an egg exchange where we each start some and ship and also ship some with out starting them and see what happens? Any way it is still early sunday morning but I am not tired and figured I would share with every one where my crazy chicken brain is running.

 

[pinusresinosa]

You worried for nothing mortie! Yay!

Looking forward to your update sasimpson77!