Expecting 8!

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Thanks McPherson! I originally started with 14, thinking with a crappy incubator, I would screw things up! Some were infertile, one slipped and fell first week, and 2 I thought were infertile, weren't. Oops! Darn dark shells! Love the dorking eggs for candling though!

How many eggs do you have set? I hope you see something by day 7 too! Good luck!
 
Shellz said:
I had 4/5 hatch all on Tuesday! Yippee! Unfortunately, pics didn't turn out.
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Did an eggtopsy on #5. Looks like it died during the last several days of development. Dunno why. Looked normal. Still had a mass of yolk to absorb, though. Very interesting.
3 Dorking eggs left in 'bator due to hatch Sat. or Sun. Candled just before lockdown - all alive & kicking! Weeeee!
Now I know why folks get addicted to this! Fascinating stuff!
Going to have to stop after the 3 cause I have 28 chicks coming from a hatchery in April.
A special thanks to Sally, for if I hadn't seen that link she posted, my 4th chick might not have made it! Excellent research you have done. A great resource! There should be a permanent tag for it in this section!
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Awwwwesome!!! Well done Shellz!!!
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LOL you ordered chicks?? But you cant just s t o p!!!
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Oh Sally, you're too funny! Lol! Hmm...how many will fit in an 8x12 converted garden shed? Seriously,
a bunch of them will be meat birds, white chanteclers will be my new egg layers, and I'll keep a handful of the biggest pullets & best 2 roos over the winter for future breeding. These will become my sustainable flock, keeping us in meat & eggs. Hoping this will be last year of ordering from the hatchery. I'm going to try incubating again at some point, but not sure when. Have a 3 year old hen that went broody early fall last year. I let her raise the 7 chicks. That's cool too!
 
Shellz said:
Oh Sally, you're too funny! Lol! Hmm...how many will fit in an 8x12 converted garden shed? Seriously,
a bunch of them will be meat birds, white chanteclers will be my new egg layers, and I'll keep a handful of the biggest pullets & best 2 roos over the winter for future breeding. These will become my sustainable flock, keeping us in meat & eggs. Hoping this will be last year of ordering from the hatchery. I'm going to try incubating again at some point, but not sure when. Have a 3 year old hen that went broody early fall last year. I let her raise the 7 chicks. That's cool too!
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well they only go in at night right???
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Tomorrow i go into lock down!!!!
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It is not my first hatch but it still is very cool. CANT WAIT FOR CHICK!!!!!!!!
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Btw i think only 4 or 5 will hatch
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Someone pass the popcorn!
 
Sally Sunshine said:
I let clears in until day 10-14 sometimes!!! but they MUST pass the sniffer! lol Are they candling ok,I had a set of marans that I eneded just leaving them as even two lights didnt illuminate them! and EVERYONE HATCHED!! AMAZING!!!
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The Rouen eggs are candling perfect however the new americauna and rhode island reds I got in today I can't see ANYTHING!!! Nothing is smelling in the incubator yet and in all the shipped eggs only one was busted out of 35 and it was fertile! Thats awesome that they all hatched.
 

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