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[k1parker]

My name is Karen. We have had chickens in our little back yard downtown for about 9 years. I started because I had a baby and we wanted nutritious eggs for him. Now I am hatching my own, this is probably the 4th batch because I love it and think it is a good educational thing for my kids. In the past I have mail ordered eggs with fairly poor hatch rate, then used local eggs with a pretty good hatch rate in spite of a low rooster to hen ratio and now this year am mail ordering eggs again because I can't find any local eggs for sale from a farm with roosters.
So far- first batch 29 eggs in, 4 hatched.
Second batch- 12 eggs in, 2 hatched, 1 pipped and 1 moved so much all through I will probably let it stay for 7 days over before I check! On day 24 right now.

 

[MrsMistyReal]

Good morning welcome aboard to BYC family gr8 people tons of information loads of fun enjoy shake your tail feathers

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Welcome! Glad to have you in the flock!!!

 

[Allie Grace Sanders]

Welcome to the flock, @k1parker! Great to have you here!

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi Karen and welcome to BYC. Fingers crossed for more hatches

 

[Jetblack2004]

Aww sorry to hear about poor hatch rates! I hope this one goes better. You can always start a thread in the Incubating and Hatching Eggs section of the forums if you have any questions!
We're glad you joined

 

[ronott1]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens!

Hatching is very addictive. Sometime I think I need a 12 step program

 

[pennyJo1960]

My name is Karen. We have had chickens in our little back yard downtown for about 9 years. I started because I had a baby and we wanted nutritious eggs for him. Now I am hatching my own, this is probably the 4th batch because I love it and think it is a good educational thing for my kids. In the past I have mail ordered eggs with fairly poor hatch rate, then used local eggs with a pretty good hatch rate in spite of a low rooster to hen ratio and now this year am mail ordering eggs again because I can't find any local eggs for sale from a farm with roosters.
So far- first batch 29 eggs in, 4 hatched.
Second batch- 12 eggs in, 2 hatched, 1 pipped and 1 moved so much all through I will probably let it stay for 7 days over before I check! On day 24 right now.

Welcome to backyard Chickens Karen maybe you could go back to the introduction page fill out a profile then we could see if we had member close for eggs or maybe buy them from you

 

[sourland]

Hello, Karen, welcome to BYC. Sadly shipped eggs are generally a crap shoot as to viability.

 

[k1parker]

Hello, Karen, welcome to BYC. Sadly shipped eggs are generally a crap shoot as to viability.

One box had 3 broken eggs then hatched 4 out of the remaining eggs... who know???
My egg that had a loose air sac but a growing moving chick clear up to lockdown still hasn't hatched. Now it's day 23. The air sac was saddleback so I don't know if it died or what. I think I will leave it alone for another few days then maybe do the float test...