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[Kelsykin]

Your hubby must be a truck driver if he needed a Peterbilt! Maybe he can pick you up some of those White Breese in Florida from the place I gave you that link to, so that you can add them to your new incubator cabinet that he's getting for you? You can save on the shipping cost!

He does not run into Florida as there is no freight coming out. But what he may do is order the breeds I so badly want.

 

[Kelsykin]

Candled the eggs this morning. 3 have definite veins in them. The other 27 are questionable. I am going to give them another few days and see what they look like then

 

[Kelsykin]

Candled eggs with a much stronger light source and 16 of the 30 are looking good. the other 14 I need to recheck on Thursday to be sure. I see a ton of clear eggs in there. Will crack them to see if they were even fertile.
The second batch of eggs I have 8 in the incubator and I will check them on Thursday. Not that I expect to see much as they are olive eggers. They are about 2 days behind the first batch.
Turkey eggs are on the way and should be here on Thursday. I may have more eggs coming after that. I have an auction for ducks ends ending tonight and I will see if I win it.
If I can get everything to hatch even a bit from each batch I will be not making a huge hatchery order this year.

 

[WildAtHart]

In what way do you candle dark olive eggs?

 

[Kelsykin]

In what way do you candle dark olive eggs?

You need a really strong light. I am pretty sure for the dark ones you need a 1200 lumen light source.
I will be getting a new one of these

 

[Bonniebooboo]

You need a really strong light. I am pretty sure for the dark ones you need a 1200 lumen light source.
I will be getting a new one of these

Those are suppose to be really good flashlights. since you can focus the light and it is 5000 lumens, that should work real well.

 

[Kelsykin]

I am praying for all I am worth. I think the heating element just may have quit on the one incubator.

 

[Kelsykin]

Those are suppose to be really good flashlights. since you can focus the light and it is 5000 lumens, that should work real well.

I am hoping I can candle the Olive eggs with it.

 

[BlueBaby]

I candled last night. The 12 White Breese eggs were easy to see to candle. I see those spider veins starting already! (In the eggs, not my legs) I will have to wait a bit on these Australorp ones though because they are darker, so I will try to candle them again tomorrow night.

 

[Kelsykin]

I candled last night. The 12 White Breese eggs were easy to see to candle. I see those spider veins starting already! (In the eggs, not my legs) I will have to wait a bit on these Australorp ones though because they are darker, so I will try to candle them again tomorrow night.

White eggs are so much easier to candle but the dark eggs are great as well.

I have 27 eggs from the original 36 going strong. Added 8 turkey eggs last night and tomorrow will be 8 ducks eggs.