Hatch with me! Placed in bator on 5-13-2010. First hatch!

[morninggloryhatchery]

Will do! Right now I have my coop where my layers and their rooster, then i'm hopefully gonna get some silkie eggs from a good friend down the road in about a week or two since her silkies still haven't started laying from being broody. Once they hatch I will build the Silkie's coop and probably gonna put an extension on the building which will be well insulated and have electricity running through it for the chicks.

 

[Doodle_Doo]

im in..
i have
10 black sumatra
2 saipan jungle fowl
8 law grey
10 thai aseel
waiting anxious for them

 

[AshleyFishy]

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I'm not familiar with law greys what are they?

 

[Doodle_Doo]

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I'm not familiar with law greys what are they?

they are gamefowl..white in color short birds..i dont have pictures of the male i got
the eggs from but they are great lookning birds..

heres a pic from someones law grey..

http://media.photobucket.com/image/law grey fowl/karraho/PICT0380-1.jpg

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

I candled my eggs!!! And on day 5 I have 100% fertility in 18 eggs!

I made a little calendar thing where It says Day 5 Day 10 Day 15 then Lockdown on it then going down the side of the page are the number 1 - 18 and I put a check mark if it is fertile and an X I'f it's not.


yea! That would be awesome if I had a 100% hatch!

 

[chickee]

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Congradulations! That is super!!! You sound like me~ I put an "A" on my first eggs set and a "B" on the second batch, plus I numbered my second batch of (first shipped eggs due on June 2nd- second batch due on June 10th) eggs because they looked so bad from being shipped!

I also made a list of what kind of shape they were in when I candled them before putting them in the incubator. I am also keeping a daily diary of humidity and Temps and candling results. In my first batch 11 of the 15 are still in the bator with 7 of those having bouncing babies and the other 4 questionable

The second batch is on day 3 so I won't candle them until Monday night. My 4 mo. old Black Wyandotte rooster just starting breeding my Blue Wyandotte hens, so I put 4 of my eggs in with the second batch. I was curious if they were fertile so I took a quick look today and even at just 3 days it is very obvious on such fresh eggs that 1 is clear and 3 are growing!!!!

I expect a poor hatch on my shipped eggs since they traveled far, and were pretty beat up!

I will be happy though if any hatch because I need these 4 top BLRW bloodlines for breeding.

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

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Congradulations! That is super!!! You sound like me~ I put an "A" on my first eggs set and a "B" on the second batch, plus I numbered my second batch of (first shipped eggs due on June 2nd- second batch due on June 10th) eggs because they looked so bad from being shipped!

I also made a list of what kind of shape they were in when I candled them before putting them in the incubator. I am also keeping a daily diary of humidity and Temps and candling results. In my first batch 11 of the 15 are still in the bator with 7 of those having bouncing babies and the other 4 questionable

The second batch is on day 3 so I won't candle them until Monday night. My 4 mo. old Black Wyandotte rooster just starting breeding my Blue Wyandotte hens, so I put 4 of my eggs in with the second batch. I was curious if they were fertile so I took a quick look today and even at just 3 days it is very obvious on such fresh eggs that 1 is clear and 3 are growing!!!!

I expect a poor hatch on my shipped eggs since they traveled far, and were pretty beat up!

I will be happy though if any hatch because I need these 4 top BLRW bloodlines for breeding.

That's AMAZING!!!!!!!

I was also gonna ask - What does a blood ring look like? Cause I egg had a baby in it like the others and there were a couple who had a faint pink like, but not all the way around. might have been the yolk

Thats cool that you have BLRW!!! I'm in the process of building a really small breeding pen - 5 hens 1 male - since I am moving to Maine as soon as my house sells. And I'm in Alaska so I can't take my chickens with me. Once I'm established in Maine I will start again with the Silkies then I really want to d BLRW if possible. But I wouldn't be surprised if I had to work on the Silkies for 2-4 years since I want to raise Show Quality Silkies.

you shipped eggs are gonna do good! I can't have eggs shipped up here since I'm in Ak and the traveling would be to rough on the eggs

 

[chickee]

I have had blood rings look two different ways. First hatch it looked like a thin red circle around where the embryo would be in the center of the egg. This batch of eggs I had one that was a thin red line all the way around the inside of the egg. Most important to note that when the embryo dies all the blood from the veins withdraw into a ring of blood. So you won't see any veins when this happens, just the ring of blood. I have one questionable egg still in the incubator that has a thick line of blood up around the air cell. I'm thinking this egg isn't going to make it

Just 10 more days to go on the first batch!!

 

[morninggloryhatchery]

Srry on the one you won't think will make it! Hopefully it proves you wrong and does make it!! Congrats on the 10 day left mark!!! I'm only day 5

. Hatching takes Patience!!

 

[chickee]

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Thanks!

HANG IN THERE! The waiting is is driving me nuts!