Feb 13th hatch!

[ChooksChick]

This thread needs a bit of a boost-

I put 72 eggs in for a Valentine's Day hatch. I'm going to be swimming in chicks!!

 

[Livinwright Farm]

Well, here is the list of progress of the 36 mixed breed chicken eggs in my LG bator on Day 10:
Group 1 was collected within 4 days prior to incubation
1-A(pure BLRW):

1-B(EE/BLRW):

1-C through Q(various hens/BLRW roo):

1-R(BA/BLRW):

= bacterial ring
1-S through V(various hens/BLRW roo):

1-W(BA/BLRW):

hard to see due to the pores in the shell
1-X(SLW/BLRW):

Group 2 was sitting in my basement for minimum of 2 weeks
2-A through L(EE/with BG or BLRW roo):

I am ABSOLUTELY shocked that every egg in this group is developing properly, given how long the eggs were just setting in my basement!

 

[HHandbasket]

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You must have a ginormous bator! We're still not sure how many our incubator will hold, but it's an ExoTerra, same as a Reptipro 5000. We're totally new at this so we're starting with a small hatch. A fellow BYCer gave us a dozen various eggs from her yard, plus I had 4 Trader Joe fertile eggs in the fridge that had been there for a couple of weeks & were right at their "expiration date" so I didn't hold out much hope for those anyway but thought what the heck, couldn't hurt. That made a total of 16 eggs that we set for a Valentine's Day hatch. Three of the 4 Trader Joe eggs had to be chucked at 6 days when we candled, but the other one shows veins, as do ALL 12 of the eggs gathered from my friend's yard (she has very loving, active birds hehehe).

Those of you who are longtime hatchers, do you remember that excitement from your first incubation??? I can't believe I am enjoying this. I didn't even WANT to get into this aspect of chickeneering, but here we are!