Setting Eggs Sept. 24th-Oct. 4th-Last Hatch of the Year. Anyone care to join me?

[Texasmja]

All the others have beautiful aircells at the top. No floaties anywhere. They are officially in the bator as of 11:30pm.

WOW what awesome luck. You are off to a great start! Yay for you.

 

[CluckyCharms]

Hi!

Breed: OEGB (unknown what kind)
Location: Kansas
Set date: Sept. 24

I set 3 OEGB eggs under my broody girls on Sept. 24th. Last time I candled, they were all alive and growing, yay!
My broody girls are silkies and they are so determined! My buff/blue silkie Pumpkin is so cute. This is her third try on hatching and if she doesn't get chicks this time, my heart will be broken. My other silkie named Winter got a chick in the last hatch, but it died.

I am sooooo hoping for chicks.

Here's Pumpkin. She's all ready for Halloween, haha!

This is super cute!!! I like that color!

a nosy peek inside my eggs tonight revealed 4 are moving around like crazy (so awesome to see that first-hand...almost cried, lol). The others...not doing too well. There was a blood ring I think on one of them but I'm leaving it alone anyway, since I don't know for sure.

 

[Brookhavens]

WOW what awesome luck. You are off to a great start! Yay for you.

Keeping my fingers crossed for this one. I just hope I don't screw something up.

 

[LakeBird]

I got mine from Washington in 2 days also. Karen packaged them beautifully. She did label the box "Fragile Live Eggs!" and the box still looks brand new. I just candled them all and only one had a slight crack in it so I used some nail polish to seal it and will keep a close eye on it. All the others have beautiful aircells at the top. No floaties anywhere. They are officially in the bator as of 11:30pm.

My daughter saw a silkie today. Now she wants her own. May I ask where you got your silkies here in WA?

 

[LakeBird]

Picanins eggs arrived today. The box was a little dented on the side:
As I unwrapped one of the eggs, I noticed that that the paper towel was a little wet. I looked down at the carton and saw:

It turned out that 4 of the eggs in this carton were cracked (3 pure production reds & 1 EE/PR):

I set the remaining eggs in another carton to set overnight. I will put them in the incubator within 24 hours of receiving them. What I am adding to the incubator is: 6 EE/PR, 1 PR & 1 Australorp/PR.

 

[lynn1961]

Day 9 on my batch, candeled them this morning, 34 out of 39 doing well. 2 look kind of iffy, will candle again soon and see how things are going !

 

[lynn1961]

A few of the birds that were used for this egg incubation project of mix breeds. Lol, Minus the calf and turkey. The Buff orpington hen is camera shy, or just hiding from the roosters.

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Set this group yesterday (10/3). first set in the incubator i built, so fingers crossed. lol.


overhead before i closed up the box





through the window

 

[novanod1966]

well, last night i candled the 1st round of my staggered hatches. out of 5 mille fleur eggs: 2 were clear (possible damage while shipped), 1 quitter (blood ring), and 2 well developed chicks. out of 10 call duck eggs: 3 clear (possible damage while shipped), 7 developing (good veins). the mille fleur d'uccle eggs are due to hatch around the 11th. call ducks take 26 days so they'll be a little longer than the chickens.

c'mon little one....

 

[Roxanneinla]

...I love this thread...So much going on!!! That orange silkie is just awesome. Sorry to hear that dent on the box though ...love love love all the pics. ...Hubby and me had a discussion on the incubating of the eggs....talk about as the egg turn drama lol....Anyway, His new supervisor use to be in the production chick business and told the hubby that i need to turn the eggs every 2 hours the minute i put them in there. I told him that they are shipped eggs and they need to rest because of there journey over here. Granted the guy was in the chick business and his hatch success rate is up in the 80-90% range. Those eggs he had probable didn't have that far of a distant...hubby just told me just don't screw it up...good grief never butthead this much about this before with chickens. This is turning into a soap opera.