Quote: I looked at the eggs this morning. Found a crack in one of them - probably from being knocked around by kittens. Tiny bit of egg yolk so most of it was absorbed before it died. The rest of the eggs looked like the chick had all yolk absorbed but there was no life to them.
Cleaned, sanitized and air/sun dried the base, added straws to air holes so if water gets into those areas the straw acts like a dam blocking water from leaking all over whatever it's on but air get into the incubator still. (Saw that tidbit on LG incubator tip thread).
Then set (these are all with EE roo): 15 Red, 6 BarredRock and 20 White EE (she's my only EE hen). Now my thermometer/hygrometer doesn't fit. I'm not sure on the brown eggs who laid what but these are eggs I collected this week on a day that I got exactly 8 eggs so I know each hen laid one. I have a couple of girls that still have all their feathers so I'm not sure on fertility since the rooster doesn't seem to like them (or they don't like him).
I think some of those blue eggs won't develop because they are a month old but I figure a couple of things:
1-it's for me (not selling or shipping those eggs to someone else)
2-people hatch Eggs sold in stores and they are of an unknown age already that may be a month old
I guess that means I need to see if anyone's started an August Hatch along thread and go join since these eggs will be due the first few days of August (my last chance before my school job starts again). I wonder if any science teachers at work would like to have a incubator in their class room? If not, this will be my last attempt at hatching this year.
CG
