Setting eggs 1st day of spring..who's with me?

[TBJumper0514]

Okay, I went ahead and did eggtopsies on the remaining eggs. 5 were green/blue and had been difficult to candle, the other was a white Ancona egg. The Ancona egg was a fully developed but dead chick

. Out of the dozen eggs I got shipped, only 2 hatched and only 3 developed. They were very dirty when I got them so maybe washing them or just being scrambled by the PO got them. Of the 5 Ameraucana eggs, 3 were not good...stopped early on or had not developed. I just couldn't tell because they were hard to candle. The other 2 had what looked to be fully developed chicks that had not fully absorbed the yolk and were dead. So, I technically had 14 viable eggs at lockdown and got 11 chicks out of them.

On to round 2...my Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs are en-route, so I will be setting them later this week!

How is everyone else doing?

 

[Egghead_Jr]

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Anything yet?

Well, my 6 remaining eggs haven't done anything yet and today is day 24...I think I am going to check them out...

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It's the end of day 22 here and they say there is chirping. I have not so very good hearing...

They (I say "They" as I'm refering to the females of the houshold. With that I'll say I'm surrounded- 4 girls and their mother.) say there is chirping from within. Huh! I've been hugging this incubator for warmth and spitting on our preborn chicks for moisture for weeks now. Now I'm depriaved from hearing those brief wails of "momma"? Egades! I've been a nervous wreck and to think this house of hormones is to have any credit would be absurd! Clearly in a house of hens if any eggs were to deliver late the fault rest on me!

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Never had a doubt

Got chick and sounds of more. The older girls got to see the first finish zipping and pop the egg lid off before going to school.

Day 23 and glad it's nearly over. I was so fidgety yesterday I had to go spend the day working outside.