December 2022 hatch-a-long

[gimmie birdies]

I am waiting for my rooster to do his deed. He is 5 months old in Dec. and I may set his brood eggs by New years hatch. Not that I am crazy about his breed he is just a white rock. But I do have a few hens that are laying now, and they don't always. I have to strike while the iron is hot.

The hens are
Frizzle/NN
Frizzle
NN
Blue feathered EE

And anything else I think might look cool.

 

[gimmie birdies]

My current shipped eggs (14) are past the first trimester! day 7/8

One of my Ayam Cemani eggs, the dark dot is his eye.

It was hard to get this pic, he kept moving.

 

[BuckeyeFoodie]

So I've made my culls for my shipped-eggs batch - five out of 16 developing, with a sixth egg I'm keeping for a few more days because I see veining, but no embryo. It's a dark egg though, so I don't mind waiting a few more days.

I'm definitely putting in a damage claim with USPS though....

I also put this week's lay from my blue/splash pen into the incubator today, so there's five more.....

 

[WallyG74]

but seeing the waiting lists for chicks in the spring

Where is this waiting list?

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

I am so excited to follow this thread. Any of you who are hatching please follow me or tag me. I think I want to do a hatch along with my third graders. Maybe pheasant or quail so I can release them at my sister's house in the country.

 

[junior67]

Checked today at days 5&7 think only 5 developing. Kept a couple that I am pretty sure are clears but a bit harder to see.

The guy I am hatching them for asked if I would try again after this group so will be able to do it again.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Keep any with veins, the embryo may be deeper in egg.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Hatcheries sell chicks before hatching far into the year... It is like a wait list, that people pre-paid for.

 

[BuckeyeFoodie]

Keep any with veins, the embryo may be deeper in egg.

Of course! It's definitely better safe than sorry.

 

[gimmie birdies]

My eggs are almost 1/2 way through the development...
Just candled, still 14 in incubator. One still has veins, but looks like I will have to remove. It was the only hedemora egg I had.

The blue x h is the hedemora egg. I will yank tomorrow.
The pink circle was not fertile.