Okay, this is my first time ever incubating. And, if you'll recall, I have the first two eggs ever laid here in there, and nine from my neighbor down the road who has heee-yoooge Buff Orpingtons.
The two laid here are from a silver laced wyandotte - purely a hatchery quality girl, and she and her sisters had been housed with a couple of white roosters (one a leghorn, and the other a ... erm ... white rooster). I bought them and brought them home and three days later I had two eggs, so I ran up the road to the BO house and tried to buy some from my friend, who refused to sell me any but sent me home with a shirttail full of nine eggs.
They have about fifteen adult hens and one adult rooster in a huge tractor that they pull around their yard, and a bunch of five month olds or so. Oh, and two turkeys. So I figured that my odds of getting eggs that were actually fertile from them were not so great, unless that rooster was really gettin' busy.
But, I candled tonight, and I saw actual active movement in both my wyandotte mix eggs, and definitely in two of the BO eggs. There were a few of the BO eggs that were either too dark or maybe too porous to see through well, and I ... well, I didn't toss any eggs. Nothing smells bad, and the inside of my incubator has been coated with latex caulk just in case anyway, so I put them all back.
I also saw - well, on one of them, it looked really clear and I could see shadowing that had to be yolk, and I could see the air sac, and I think I could see a bit of veining. But, no movement.
On another, there was a band around the egg that I thought was a line, and I was trying to decide if that was blood ring - then I saw movement. So, maybe not. I don't know.
I'm so obviously not an expert here. But horribly excited about my wyandotte babies!
Oh - and I'm also apparently now a chicken nerd.
I uploaded video to youtube . <ugh>
