Just as a test? what do you think? thought of maybe running 3 to 6. i've never hatched before and all i have are cockerels and pullets from april 4, 2011 hatch. probably wouldn't even keep babies, but sell em if anyone wanted................. ????
I had a clutch of 15 from hens we got as chicks in March. My broody hatched out 6 of them and one died. They are doing great.
I got my six in late March as week old chicks, and hatched 7 out of 8 eggs 12 days ago. The babies are behind me right now peeping up a storm in their dog crate turned brooder. I don't know what happened to the one egg that didnt hatch, but the seven that did hatch all seem fine and very vocal and active to me. No problems so far.
I set some shipped eggs last week.. since they were extremely porous I added in some pullet eggs from a brown leghorn that I got in May.. figured that if only one or two of the shipped eggs hatch then at least they will have a couple of buddies the little brown leghorn was only a few weeks old when i got her (picked her up at the feed store) so she would have been hatched out in late April/ early May if we figure late April that would make her 5 months old.. both of the eggs I put in are fertile .. have veins forming and should hatch with no problems I set a dozen Maran eggs this morning and also added two more of her eggs to the bator if you are in doubt if the eggs are any good.. crack open some and check the fertility .. if you see a "bulls-eye" then you know they should be ok to set I know some people will tell you to never try to hatch a pullet egg.. I have hatched them in the past without any issues.. so long as the fertility is good and the egg is of a normal size I don't see any reason not to incubate some if that's what you want to do
