JUNE HAL

[DuckGirl77]

Just candles for the second time. All but just a few seem unfertile of my 36 eggs! I see veins and a little eye in some

I hope you get more than a few! I can't see anything in mine, but maybe this is the year of invisible chicks!

 

[SunnysideFowl]

Just candles for the second time. All but just a few seem unfertile of my 36 eggs! I see veins and a little eye in some

Maybe just give it some time? My brown eggs usually can't be accurately candles until about day 15.

 

[AtlantisPeeps]

I just realized I worded that wrong , haha! I meant most of them are embryos, and only a few are unfertile. Whoops

 

[AuntNomi]

I set eggs on June 9th, so should be hatching around the 30th. This will be my 3 rd time incubating, I haven't been very good at it. So I am hoping for a better hatch rate this go around. My first ever broody hen hatched 3 chicks on the 9 th also, they are adorable. And from my last hatch I did a few weeks ago I have 7 chicks. I have a Blue Ameraucana Roo over Blue English Orptingtons, White Leghorns, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Black Ams, Lav. Ams, Welsummer, and Golden Laced Wyandottes. So I will have plenty of Easter Eggers.

 

[Lacy P]

First one hatched a day early! Hopefully the others follow soon!

 

[AtlantisPeeps]

Candling is my second favorite part of hatching! It's so exciting. I've got 22/37 confirmed embryos. I should be up to 25 in a few days as a couple are still fresh. This egg was crystal clear and I could see everything! The baby was bouncing around and everything!

 

[Lacy P]

Candling is my second favorite part of hatching! It's so exciting. I've got 22/37 confirmed embryos. I should be up to 25 in a few days as a couple are still fresh. This egg was crystal clear and I could see everything! The baby was bouncing around and everything!

I showed nay neighbors six year old a candled egg today that I could see all the blood vessels through. I get so excited to see what they look like.

 

[PeepsForUs]

Hey! I'm joining late in the game. We had a failed hatch of shipped eggs last month so I was holding my breath on this one before getting excited. Our most recent bath of mutt eggs have been in the incubator since 11:30pm on Friday the 27th of May. According to my newbie calculations, they're due to hatch on Saturday the 18th, correct?

We had a minor accident the other day while candling and lost two partially developed eggs. However besides that I think we are right on target! 34 eggs remaining and only one so far that appears to be sterile! We can't wait to hear the peeps!

 

[spanishred]

Well our hen went broody again! She hatched out our chicks 4 months ago.. and last night 7/8 eggs we had under her this time hatched! Barnyard mixes. The excitement of having no idea what they'll look like!

 

[CollieFeathers]

Went into lock down this afternoon. Should have Silver Laced Wyandotte chicks by Thursday afternoon. The main incubator is one of those Chinese made yellow plastic ones with a digital readout. It has circulated air with a fan and an egg turner. I leave the vent plugs out. The temperature stays very constant and I add water about every 4 days for humidity. On the last three days I've switched the eggs to a wafer (non digital) Hova Bator still air incubator 1602 and raise the humidity to 60-65% by filling two of the troughs. Use a Walmart Temp/Humidity reader in the incubator plus the thermometer that came with the incubator to keep an eye on that. The eggs were an eBay purchase and came in the mail. The pics of her flock looked very nice and the eggs were well packed.


Will post what happens on Thursday. The eggs are very slightly propped up with a little piece of egg carton so they don't roll into one another.