Okay I need help, maybe. So, candling all the 14 Welsummer eggs on the 28th and only one was nearly completely solid and it has not hatched yet. I don't think any of them will make it.
However, the 18 silkie eggs were put on lockdown yesterday and they were all nearly black except for three maybe? Right now the temp is (on a new digital thermometer) 101°f, 47% humidity. That was went we left this morning for my great aunts funeral. I will have to check it tonight and hopefully get the chance to get on tomorrow and check back with you peeps.
I really hope the silkies make it!! I'm dying for the little fluffy butts! The Welsummers are done I think so I'll have to figure out what to do with the duds. 14 should feed three cats right?
The whole problem was with a possibly faulty plastic thermometer which showed it was at 99.5-100°f until we found that it was not matching up with the new digital one which read it as higher or lower than that. So yeah not really any fault of mine but something we will have to fix for the next time we incubate eggs. Oh well. Live and learn I guess.
Mean while all the Easter Eggers are turning gorgeous!! I've named one, the lightest one, Navajo, because its got red and blue-grey feathers and white down still on its face. The others my dad wants to name after Ireqouis Indian Tribes. I'll have to get camera batteries and get picks
By the way:
to all the new peeps!! Glad to see new chickenereers! Lol.
And Kab, I'm dying! Cricket looks great and id take him but my dad doesn't think I need a roo for my ees.
Otherwise id love that good looking boy in my pen! Lolol