Flock restart hatch-along

[Chicken_Obsesser]

Can I take number nine and name it Violet?

 

[horselover1999]

Can I take number nine and name it Violet?

9 is taken, 4 and 5 are available.

 

[tviss711]

They all look great!!!

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

9 is taken, 4 and 5 are available.

Oh okay thank you! Can I please have number 4?

 

[horselover1999]

Oh okay thank you! Can I please have number 4?

Yep!

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

Thank you

 

[horselover1999]

Ok, it's day 17 3/4 but I just put them on lockdown.
I candled and saw movement in a couple eggs! I just couldn't see into Walnut, Olive, Iris, Violet, or Currant at all. I am assuming that they are perfectly fine, since there is so much chick in the shell that it's hard to see anything, anyways.

I took out the turner, upped the humidity to around 50%, and put down shelf liner for traction. I tried to position the eggs so that they are all touching and visible from a window, with the deepest part of the air cell up so that pips will (hopefully) be visible!

 

[MargieG]

Long intro, stay with me...

I had a flock if chickens in high school and a little into college. I majored in Poultry Science, and thought I was going to get a job in the poultry industry, where you can't have your own birds (biosecurity), so we let them live out their days until they died naturally.
After I got my bachelor's, I started my master's in Animal Science, focusing on poultry (and horses), and still thought I was going to get a job in the poultry industry.
Well, it doesn't look like I will get a job with poultry at all, so I might as well put my degree to some use!

I wanted to get hatching eggs from exhibition birds like I did in high school, but it turns out that there aren't a lot of breeders near me, and I have never had chickens for fun egg colors before, so I found some hatching eggs locally on facebook and picked them up last night!
Most of them are barnyard mixes except for a couple.

Roosters:
Black Copper Marans
Blue Marans
Olive Egger

Hens:
Black Copper Marans
Blue Marans
Barred Rock
Speckled Sussex
Blue Azure
Olive Egger
Easter Egger

The eggs:
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She did tell me that eggs 1 and 3 are guaranteed pure Marans.

Eggs were set yesterday, due to hatch 2/20!

beautiful. I can't wait to see the chickies

 

[tviss711]

It’s go time chickies!!! We are eager to see you!

 

[Chicken_Obsesser]

Can I name mine Pineapple?