I'll be setting 39 chicken eggs tonight as soon as my incubator heats up.
I've got bantum cochins, polishes, 1 bantam RIR mix, welsummers, golden lakenvelders, black sexlinks, blue andalusians, blue laced red wynadottes, and easter eggers.
21 days will be August 25th!
Any hatching buddies?
Official Candling Activity! 8/12/11
If you haven't candled already let's do so and record what each egg looks like.
This is how I did mine. I numbered each egg on top as well as wrote what the egg is so I can see it from the viewin window. Then on a piece of paper I did like this:
1. Bantam Cochin-dark on fat end, can see veins and embryo
2. Golden Lakenvelder-completely light colored. Looks kinda porous too. Pretty sure it's a no-go.
3. etc etc etc
After recording how each egg looks put it in one of these catagories:
*Excellent- can see definate veins and embryo (can also be in this category if you think your pretty sure you can see an embryo but it's not 100%)
*Good/Alright- can see some veins, no embryo visible or barely visable
*Not sure- dark on fat end, can't really see much, or egg is dark colored so hard to candle
*Extreme Doubt/Dead- reserve this category for eggs that you extremely doubtfull about their progress or that you are completely sure it's dead or never developed at all
After you decide which category the eggs go it, list them for us here. You can do this in one of these ways:
-By breed like so:
Cochins-
4 excellent, 1 good, 2 not sure, 1 dead
Golden Lakenvelder-
2 excellent, 3 good, 1 not sure, 1 doubful/dead
etc etc etc
OR
-By category like so:
Excellent-
4 Cochins
2 Golden Lakenvelders
1 Blue andalusian
etc etc etc
Then at the end you can put like this:
Excellent: 14 total
Good: 4 total
etc etc etc
Progress
15 out of 30 eggs are in excellent/good shape as of right now. etc
8/15/11 Let us know when your scheduled for lockdown, what kind of eggs you've got and your due date
I've got bantum cochins, polishes, 1 bantam RIR mix, welsummers, golden lakenvelders, black sexlinks, blue andalusians, blue laced red wynadottes, and easter eggers.
21 days will be August 25th!
Any hatching buddies?
Official Candling Activity! 8/12/11
If you haven't candled already let's do so and record what each egg looks like.
This is how I did mine. I numbered each egg on top as well as wrote what the egg is so I can see it from the viewin window. Then on a piece of paper I did like this:
1. Bantam Cochin-dark on fat end, can see veins and embryo
2. Golden Lakenvelder-completely light colored. Looks kinda porous too. Pretty sure it's a no-go.
3. etc etc etc
After recording how each egg looks put it in one of these catagories:
*Excellent- can see definate veins and embryo (can also be in this category if you think your pretty sure you can see an embryo but it's not 100%)
*Good/Alright- can see some veins, no embryo visible or barely visable
*Not sure- dark on fat end, can't really see much, or egg is dark colored so hard to candle
*Extreme Doubt/Dead- reserve this category for eggs that you extremely doubtfull about their progress or that you are completely sure it's dead or never developed at all
After you decide which category the eggs go it, list them for us here. You can do this in one of these ways:
-By breed like so:
Cochins-
4 excellent, 1 good, 2 not sure, 1 dead
Golden Lakenvelder-
2 excellent, 3 good, 1 not sure, 1 doubful/dead
etc etc etc
OR
-By category like so:
Excellent-
4 Cochins
2 Golden Lakenvelders
1 Blue andalusian
etc etc etc
Then at the end you can put like this:
Excellent: 14 total
Good: 4 total
etc etc etc
Progress
15 out of 30 eggs are in excellent/good shape as of right now. etc
8/15/11 Let us know when your scheduled for lockdown, what kind of eggs you've got and your due date
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