June 2025 hatch-a-long

[PrettyCoolChicks]

sounds like quite the adventure getting those eggs!

I would participate, but our broody duck is Eggspecting on May 23rd.
Candling the eggs tomorrow.

I'd love some early chick pics tho

 

[RoseHawke]

What have I done?! I'm expecting a dozen VERY EXPENSIVE (I'm not telling my husband how much I spent on these eggs,) black bantam cochin eggs Thursday the 15th. At least expensive for me. What may have spurred it is that I scored a little incubator off Amazon Vine. Yes, it's Chinese but as part of the reviewal process I've had it running and been watching it the past week. So far it appears to keep a steady temp and humidity very close to its stated parameters and has been good about turning the "eggs" (dummies.) In any case I've got a Hova-Bator I'm going to set up "just in case."

So those eggs will be going in sometime Friday or Saturday depending. I'm not expecting much, I've only ever done one incubation, and these are shipping to boot. At least they're coming from a reasonable distance, under 180 miles, so I'm hoping for less traumatized eggs.