Just took this photo today, DAY 6. All are developing. One of the two I thought was infertile is developing, though seems to be behind the others and I think will likely turn into a blood ring. A few more days and I will be able to tell.
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A customer wants to put some of these eggs under a broody and they’re picking them up Monday. That will take me down to 8, though 7 if the one ends up being a blood ring.
I just sold this weeks hatching eggs. Lately I have been collecting the breeder eggs and storing them cool in the drinks fridges highest setting (about 48 degrees). They can keep well in there for about 2 weeks, then the viability goes down. They are turned 3 times a day. Because of my work schedule I have to time setting the eggs when I will be home at hatch time. My teenage daughter tends to the eggs while I am gone. The importance of turning while stored was made real to us when my husband moved the refrigerated eggs to a different shelf in the Drinks fridge, making room for beer. So my daughter thought I had removed them (I was out of town). These were not turned for several days and the hatch rate went way down. She now gets all the money for the sale of hatching eggs, so she remembers now to turn them and the hubby got a talking to as well!
Depending on my wait list, I will set every few weeks, when the Silkie girls cooperate. So far I have had no trouble selling the purebred Silkies. I usually only hatch to order the Polkies.
I discarded 1 obvious clear; the other 5 showed definite development, though some looked better than the others. I won't try to check them again until next weekend; it's not worth battling this hen any more than absolutely necessary! Two weeks to go here.
I'll try to post. It'll be my first time using an incubator in years!
