Okay! I candled and removed the clear ones, as well as any that I could clearly identify as blood spots. I could tell on some that they were blood and not embryos, and that's a step up!
I even saw several moving around in the eggs! Several were too dark and I couldn't manage to see even a little, so I stuck them back in there and I'll hope for the best..
I'm down to 44, and I stopped and figured out which eggs were from which place, so no more mystery eggs.
1 BR
2 Brown Leghorn
4 BC Marans
2 Cochins
7 Seramas
16 Araucanas & Ameracaunas, guessing mixed, most are green rather than blue?
12 Olive Eggers
Rathbone --I'm hoping for a few things. I'll be happy if one of the seramas hatches.. my husband is head over heels for the little bitty birds (he wants more old english games bantams now.. likes the creles!) and I keep seeing him check the bator where these are. So, those.
And on that topic -- seramas, should I have them separate at lockdown? Will the bigger babies trample them? I also really wanted a big blue cochin boy running around the yard, but I'm not holding my breath there with only two eggs left. That aside, I want an assortment of pretty egg layers leaving me pretty colored eggs.
I had a small set of eggs hatch Sunday, and have three little babies.. one lonely little survivor from a dozen BO eggs (second attempt to get a few Orpingtons, what gives?), and two from our back yard. I may be biased, but the backyard babies are cuter
Nine more due to hatch this Saturday!
We NEED pictures!
