My2butterflies
Crowing
I just hatched my first 4 keets this week! Major thanks to a couple members that guided me along 
Now I have moved 10 eggs from a clutch of 30+ eggs my broody hens have been sitting on. I know I have 7 females, but only 2-5 rotate sitting on the eggs. With one in particular that gets stuck with them the most.
I think she’s getting sick of it. Yesterday she left the eggs unattended for at least 3hrs if not closer to 5. I took the opportunity to remove the 10 that I could see development in. One egg looks like I wrote 5/12 on it. There should be seven eggs with that date, but it has rubbed off. I was trying to see if they were eating eggs because I’ve seen a big drop in how many were being laid each day. And I wasn’t finding them outside. Of course now I’d be highly unlikely to find them with all the tall grass and thick woods.
Anyway, that would put them, or some, to hatch this weekend. I candled them all and saw movement in all ten. One thing looked off though. I feel like in addition to the air cell their was a second shadow that I don’t recall seeing in my last batch. I thought it was liquid at first, but it doesn’t move as much as a liquid would. So I’m stumped.
Here are the 10 in the incubator.
And three eggs I candled a couple days ago.
I’m a little torn on when to lockdown. The 5/12 eggs should be ready tomorrow but a few others look like they might not be as far along. I’m kinda thinking I’ll keep the turner on till Friday unless I see pips. Does this sound alright? Or would an early lockdown be ok?
Now I have moved 10 eggs from a clutch of 30+ eggs my broody hens have been sitting on. I know I have 7 females, but only 2-5 rotate sitting on the eggs. With one in particular that gets stuck with them the most.
I think she’s getting sick of it. Yesterday she left the eggs unattended for at least 3hrs if not closer to 5. I took the opportunity to remove the 10 that I could see development in. One egg looks like I wrote 5/12 on it. There should be seven eggs with that date, but it has rubbed off. I was trying to see if they were eating eggs because I’ve seen a big drop in how many were being laid each day. And I wasn’t finding them outside. Of course now I’d be highly unlikely to find them with all the tall grass and thick woods.
Anyway, that would put them, or some, to hatch this weekend. I candled them all and saw movement in all ten. One thing looked off though. I feel like in addition to the air cell their was a second shadow that I don’t recall seeing in my last batch. I thought it was liquid at first, but it doesn’t move as much as a liquid would. So I’m stumped.
Here are the 10 in the incubator.
And three eggs I candled a couple days ago.
I’m a little torn on when to lockdown. The 5/12 eggs should be ready tomorrow but a few others look like they might not be as far along. I’m kinda thinking I’ll keep the turner on till Friday unless I see pips. Does this sound alright? Or would an early lockdown be ok?
