By the way! Pee Wee has the face only a mother could love!He is cool though. Been thinking of getting naked necks myself.
I'm waiting on eggs to hatch from a broody too. It's my first time hatching anything and my first time with a broody too. So needless to say I am definately nervous and excited about this hatch. Our EE hen Hazel is sitting on 10 eggs which should be due to hatch Friday. The eggs she is sitting on are from our own flock. We sold all of our adult roosters and 9 days after getting rid of the last rooster Hazel decided to go broody. Since there was the possibility of our own eggs being fertile we decided to let her sit on some of those rather than buying eggs and risking her not being a proper broody. The moms of the eggs are EEs and RIRs, and the dad is likely my EE roo. We had a BR roo too but he was sold a week and a half or so before the EE roo and was the submissive roo.
I'm getting anxious to see if anything hatches. I tried to candle at day 8 and day 16 and I think I saw what I was supposed to. I don't have a candler and I've never done it before so honestly I was just going off pictures I had seen online. If nothing hatches I have a source for cheap chicks and I could get some breeds I want to add to my flock.
I hope something hatches from these eggs though. Likely we will end up selling chicks that hatch though.
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Oh my goodness! No doubt. I must confess though, I have spent waaay too much time on here the last week since I signed up. I have actual work to do and it just keeps piling up! lol I guess I better get to it.
Same here !! It's addictive. I guess probably because I can talk to other poultry obsessed people, whereas in 'real life' I only encounter normal people, and they don't care much to hear about duckies...
This Friday 6/8/12 should be day 21. I have a small flock. 6 adult hens right now and they aren't even a year old yet. I have 2 RIRs and 4 EEs that are laying. There are 10 teenagers (12 week olds) that were just added to the adults (the cochins, frizzle, NN, Ameracaunas, Polish, EE/Polish mix, and leghorns in my signature). Most of the teenagers are hens, there are only 2 cockerals in that batch. I plan on keeping one cockeral right now, because we don't need 2 roosters again.You are in the same boat as me. My broody is even an EE. haha But all the eggs are hers as my older ladies don't care for the roos attentions much anymore.
I don't have a proper candler either, just trying to do the best with what we've got right now and comparing pictures too. When are yours due to hatch? It looks like mine should be around Monday or Tuesday.....
Good luck to you! Keep me updated!!
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