CRAP! I candled and look what that got me! ALMOST NO IOWA BLUES! Kari! Only two are developing well and about 5 just quit!the others were clear
shipping was horrid though... ALL the Am/iowas X's are good! didnt pull ANY of those BUt lost my jersey giant!
... ALL my Blue AM's are great! all my fluffy project eggs are good!! Line A's, line Bs, ABs! Lost a few (several) of John's barred rocks and a few bcm...so I think out of 192 eggs we lost about 40 or so with a couple more iffy ones put back in to "See". So that was my candling report for a couple days ago...I had only candled a few for the 10 day since with this sportsman it is hard to candle all those trays of eggs and not cool off the whole thing and we record all developement with eggs and hatching so we can keep track of everything with so many lol....so it is logged...it recovers pretty fast though...which is awesome!
Still looks like I am going to need SEVERAL hatchers....!
OMG the BEST news is that we ordered some polish eggs from illia....Well the foam shippers she used to ship the eggs took a beating on the way, THANKS PO!! and several where lost! ANYHOW I HAD 10 eggs not broken, but some had kinda iffy air cells...wonky...I put them in the incubator for about a day no turning maybe a bit longer with no turner on just sitting upright in the racks...THEN gave ALL ten to a new broody...who is deadly serious about hatching SOMETHING! SHE is an EE...and she took ALL ten after a moments pause and a worried look almost to say "ok well I will TRY,but I dunno"
What I had done was put them in the nest when I took her off to do her morning "thing" when she came back ready to sit there they were! And still warm! she thought another hen added some I guess she hopped right on and had to work to get ten polish eggs covered but is doing a great job since EVERY ONE is developing and shows movement on candling!!
SO THAT is awesome...I didn't count those eggs in the hatch along as they got going a few days later! one of the polish is a CREOLE hope it hatches!
AND WE still have TWO developing Iowa Blues!!!
Kari can I get some Jersy giants? That was SOOO disapointing,I was surprised I was that upset SOOO must have more...just a few.Maybe some iowas?