Eggs are set. 21 days to go. day 10 Candling report

[Smitty's Farm]

Yay! Your eggs have arrived!

That's exciting! OK......here it goes
BLUE.....BLUE........BLUE...........BLUE......BLUE.........BLUE........BLUE!!!!

That's me sending blue vibes your way!

 

[coloradochick]

D,

Good luck!!

And we never did see updated pics of the last little ones

 

[speckledhen]

Bet you get a couple of little Suede, Jr's to choose from. I have three blue cockerels in the nursery, every one, a different shade of blue and every one gorgeous. One of them is the King of the Nursery and keeps beating up all the Barred Rocks, but at six weeks old, that's really when it begins in earnest.

 

[ZuniBee]

here's wishes for a berry blue hatch!

I can't wait to see the fuzzy butts as you would say!

 

[Wynette]

GOOD LUCK on your BLUE hatch!

 

[LoneCowboy]

DAng! I marked the calendar today, and these are going to start hatching while I'm gone to a class!! AAAHHHH!!! I thought I timed this right.

 

[chickenranchwife]

Good luck on your BLUE hatch Cowboy, just means when you get outta class you'll have something to look forward to!

 

[LoneCowboy]

Ok, did a quick candling (day 6) since I won't be home tomorrow night, and we all know that in hatching you must round back not up when it comes to days

Good news Speckledhen!! Charlottes eggs are growing except for #6 which has a blood ring. Her's are so easy to see veins in that there's no problem candling them. The others I believe are doing well too, but it's still hard to see through the dark shells, and I didn't candle them all. But, I figure if Charlottes are doing so well, then it's a good average that the others are too. I do know that one of the barred rock is developing too. So, looks really really good. I'll get more specific on day 14

Zunibee, I can't really tell yet. I think they are growing, but like the other dark eggs, I just can't be 100%. But the yoke area looks darker than it should, so that's a good sign.

So, I'm feeling optimistic about this hatch. If I can just keep the humidity under control, I'd be really happy. We've been having snow, and then a really warm day and snow, and a really warm day, so the humidity has been a nightmare to keep where it needs to be. At night it can be too high, and in the morning it's not even registering on the hygrometer.

But then it would be wrong to have a smooth hatch right

 

[speckledhen]

That's great news! I'm so glad I thought to send those along even though Scout had already gone to his new home. Excellent!

 

[LoneCowboy]

Ok here's the official day 10 candling report.

24 of 32 eggs are growing. YIPPIE

I've got 7 blue orps growing I think, 1 is ?

5 blue Americuna's growing

5 Barred rocks

7 blue Jersey Giants