Putting eggs in the bator on July 25, does anyone wanna hatch along???

[dandydoodle]

here is the first one to hatch its a bantam

Awwwwe, sooooo sweet!!!!!!!! What kind is it? You have a pretty mommy what is she?

 

[farmer boy]

idk lol i know standard chickens more then bantam chickens ... another egg has a pep hole

its awesome lol can't wait

 

[dandydoodle]

I couldn't wait any longer. I candled. So here is the official count for now.

6 White Ameraucana
3 Wheaton Marans
1 Tolbunt/ Birchen Maran
3 Coronation Sussex
2 Speckled Sussex

Its kind of hard to see in the Maran eggs I am pretty sure these Marans are viable. All the others that I can see in well seem to be wiggly all over the place.

 

[cluckitall]

It'll be here before you know it.

Thanks, Dandydoodle!

I definitely made a major tactical error putting the incubator right next to the couch -- can't help peering in constantly even though I've got 14 days to go!!! Can't believe it's only been a week....

 

[cluckitall]

I had to candle this afternoon because I am DYING to know if my mixed ones were growing at all. I got these from a local craigslist ad for $3/dozen. I don't know how old they were, they had been refrigerated, and she had just recently gotten a roo so I wasn't even entirely sure they were fertile. Before putting them in, I broke open the smallest, odd shaped one to check fertility and they looked to be. I put 11 in the bator. Three of them are growing for sure! The others are too dark or too early to see anything in (I've only had them in since 8/1).
So I checked the rest also and now I have a decent count. I marked the ones I'm pretty sure are not doing anything and I'm going to pull them out on day 10 and triple check then remove the bad ones. So I'm going to not candle again until Tuesday.

Heres my count:
Cochins: put in 7 eggs on 7/25- 1 good, 1 questionable. 5 removed.
Polish: put in 10 on 7/28- 1 good, 1 questionable.
Wyandottes: put in 2 on 7/28. 1 good, 1 questionable.
Easter Eggers: put in 2 on 7/28. 1 good, 1 questionable.
Mixed breeds: put in 11 on 8/1. 3 good, 8 questionable.

So I started with 32 eggs and I'm now down to 19.

There is another local with Barred Rocks and Delawares. I'm going to get a dozen of each from her too.


I am having so much fun with this.

Ooh, I really want Delawares!!! Eventually I might get a few, but I've really only got room for 16 or so chickens. And frankly, that's a lot more than I need! .If I wasn't renting I'd just build another coop and start selling eggs or somethin'. Yay on the Wyandottes!

 

[cluckitall]

Dandydoodle, for what it's worth I thought long and hard about the whole humidity thing and it occurred to me that in the natural state, humidity varies widely and ya know what? Those durn eggs still hatch! All the way from Georgia to Arizona... So I'm hopeful for ya!

 

[cluckitall]

YAY, FARMER BOY!!!!

OMG, he's (or she's) so cute!!! I never understood why anyone would want bantams -- why have little eggs when you can have big ones?? But I tell ya, that picture just might make me a convert

And what a beautiful mama!

How are the rest doing? WE WANT MORE PICTURES!!!!

 

[cluckitall]

here is the first one to hatch its a bantam

The first hatch of the thread -- how cool!!!

(Yeah, I just had to repost your pic again! WHEE!!!

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[cluckitall]

I couldn't wait any longer. I candled. So here is the official count for now.

6 White Ameraucana
3 Wheaton Marans
1 Tolbunt/ Birchen Maran
3 Coronation Sussex
2 Speckled Sussex

Its kind of hard to see in the Maran eggs I am pretty sure these Marans are viable. All the others that I can see in well seem to be wiggly all over the place.

Oh man! And here I sit with my eight little mutts... I LOVE the Coronation Sussex -- or at least I love pictures of them! And the Wheaten marans... Dang, you guys are hatching out all my fantasy birds!!!

 

[cluckitall]

And no wigglies yet

Lot of veins and stuff, tho! But I didn't set mine till the 28th. Pout!

But hey, at least I get to see all your beautiful babies while I'm anticipating!