Setting eggs today 4/1/12 Anyone else?

[SkyeSchazade]

O my goodness, puppies and chicks

due around the same time? Lucky you! Beagle puppies are so darned cute! Your house is going to be quite noisy I can imagine lol. Hopefully we will get to see pictures?

 

[Missymac]

O my goodness, puppies and chicks

due around the same time? Lucky you! Beagle puppies are so darned cute! Your house is going to be quite noisy I can imagine lol. Hopefully we will get to see pictures?

Will post pictures. My first doe is due 150 days on May 15th so it really will be an eventful next couple of months

 

[SkyeSchazade]

Woot! My doe is due to kid any day now, baby goats are the cutest!

 

[gwendalynn28]

I set 12 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte eggs on 4/2/12. I have a tiny flock of two BLRW roosters and 2 BLRW hens. I'm hoping to have a really good hatch on 4/23/12! I bought the parents late last summer as one week old chicks and they are the best birds! Very friendly and docile. I have 7 eggs in my other incubator that are due to hatch on 4/12/12. Those I have candled and I have 7 of 7 fertilized. I'll candle the ones I just set probably in two weeks. I like to candle about halfway through and then on the 17th day before lockdown begins so I know which ones to keep and which ones to toss. I'll take some pics and post them later! They are in my homemade incubator that I made from a medical grade shipping container. I had great success with it last summer, but I used shipped eggs and gave all those babies to my aunt!

 

[booker81]

I'll join in! I set a dozen "mutt" eggs on 4/2 in my homemade incubator. I successfully hatched out 3 turkey poults in March with the bator, and now that I've learned it's silliness, I think I should have some pretty good luck (I hope).

My roos - a production RIR and a breeder quality BLRW

My hens - two black Ameruacanas, a buff laced Polish, a California Grey, a Light Brahma, a GLW, a few RIR and a few Red Sexlinks. I know I have four blue eggs in there and one from the Polish, one from the California, and the rest could belong to any of the brown layers Should be pretty fun to see what comes out!

 

[CluckyJay]

I cant stop looking in the incubator window. :| lol

 

[SkyeSchazade]

I just candled my first batch of blue eggs and i can see definite embryo development in 9 of them!

Two look like they might have a ring and the other (from the young lav.) I couln't see a darned thing and the egg looked very porus. I am going to candle again on day 10, if those three look the same I will toss them. I will do the other batch then too, though I am not counting on being able to see much in the Marans. I am so proud of my lil eggies lol!

 

[gwendalynn28]

I have some "mutt" eggs as well. I am curious to incubate some of them to see what the chicks would look like. The rooster is a splash BLRW. I have two hens that lay blue eggs as well so I'm interested in trying to hatch a batch of all blue eggs! I bet they would be really pretty chickens! I did candle one egg this morning! I couldn't resist, since I had to turn the eggs anyway this morning! I just grabbed one out real quick and put the candler to it! It looks like its growing but I was really fast since I didn't want the temps or humidity to drop too low while I was being curious! I didn't expect to see to much though since I just set the eggs on 4/2/12! It is really hard being patient! I'm excited about this hatch though because I'm finally hatching out my own eggs! I've always purchased and shipped eggs but know I am able to incubate my own! I'm hoping that is going to mean a much higher hatch rate!

 

[gwendalynn28]

I'm the same way. My husband thinks I'm losing my mind more and more each spring! I wish he could understand how much fun it can be if only he'd try it!!

 

[Missymac]

I did early candling yesterday 4/4 as well. My fish tank top covered with a towel in the dark worked pretty well. I could barely make out little red veins on 9 of the eggs. one looked to be possibly unfetilized, and the other I just couldn't see anything no matter which way I turned the egg it was dark. I am going to candle again at 7 days, 12 days, and 17 days.