hatching around the 26th post UPDATES here

[Tsagirl]

I know I wish those babies would arrive today! Come on babies!

 

[willowcol]

Well how are everyones eggs doing? No updates since yesterday. No one candled, this is going to take forever trying to figure out if I cooked mine or not, I have to live my hatch threw you guys. lol

 

[texasbartrambaby]

I candled tonight - very first time!! And guess what I saw. NOTHING. But I am only 5 days out. I think I saw dark masses and two of my ameraucanas are clear. Can't tell on those dark cuckoos though.

But, its only day 5. I am just terrified of bator explosion!

 

[willowcol]

I can never candle the dark ones either, lol. I only have luck on the white, or very light eggs. I jsut usually leave the dark ones in til the end, giving a little sniff to them every once in a while. If they smell toss the smelly ones before the do explode. Day 5 is tough, you can usually see small viens but in eggs with any tint they are too hard to see.

 

[william9792]

i have 36 RIR"s due on the 2nd, can"t wait till they hatch

 

[Chef]

I'm do on the 27th! I have eight RIR eggs from my birds and seven BC marans eggs from a local breeder in Ca. I have veins on all RIR eggs and cant tell on the marans. So far so good.

Chef

 

[willowcol]

Yeah we have lots of babies coming soon on here don't we. Helping the Chickens take over the world, 1 egg at a time. Must be our mission.

 

[shelleyd2008]

First off, there is a way you can tell if the egg is developing, though it's not 100%. Before you set the egg, the yolk is usually up near the air cell, or at least towards the center of the egg. This, when candling, would look like a darker part of the egg in a darker shelled egg (haven't done marans, so I don't know if it would work for them). Anyway, before you can see veins, if the egg is developing, the bottom of the egg will be dark, and the top of the egg will be clear. Usually in a few days you will see veins.

Update on my eggs:

Silkies, due date 1-23: out of 20 eggs I have 6 white, 3 cuckoo, and 1 buff egg developing. This is good, since I didn't think any buffs were developing!!
Ameracaunas, due date 1-25: Out of 6 eggs, one looks like it has a blood ring, the other eggs are hard to candle, but they are not clear for sure!!

Golden Lakenvelders, due date 1-27: Out of 5 eggs that survived shipping, I have 5 eggs with gorgeous veining!! The other eggs were scrambled, and 3 of those got tossed last night for weeping in my bator

Hope they all hatch for me, and everyone else's hatch for them!!

 

[pbjmaker]

Shelly - are those the GL's we talked about? I can't wait!

I candled again and 3 of my 8 eggs were definately clear so I chucked them. Two had been very cold and I am guessing there is a fertility issue still since they are pullet eggs.

So I have 5 eggs now due on the 27th. I am hoping they are mostly pure d'uccle. One is from my serama hen though so I can't wait to see what a black mottled seramaX d'uccle or golden lakenvelder looks like!

 

[shelleyd2008]

pbjmaker~~I've talked to so many people about them, it's hard to say!! Probably is though! I got these technically off ebay, but they came from the farmers wife. She sent 12, but 7 of them are pretty sloshy. The P.O. was not very nice to them apparently. Now if I can only get 1 roo and 4 pullets out of it, I'll be good to go!