
Sounds like you've been listening well to all the right people. Your hatch is in good hands.Yeah, I've heard the darker eggs are way hard to candle, I found that out tonight, lol. The dark color and the speckles make it really hard but I finally got it, thanks for all the advice though. Yeah, I'm supposed to let them sit 24 hours. It's terrible, it's like giving a kid a brand new toy that they've always wanted and then saying "Here you go... but you can't play with it for a whole day." But it's probably a good thing cause my hygrometer went whacko on me and I couldn't get the humidity right cause I couldn't really tell what it was and I wasn't sure my temp was right til I stuck an analog meat thermometer in there and it was dead on with the other 1. So tomorrow I'm going to stop at the pet store and see what I can find to use til my new 1 comes in the mail, I've heard zoo med makes good thermo/hygrometer combos
I like what I am hearing. We have soo many fire ants in our yard. I should just put some nasty poison out, but with chooks, a well, and a garden at the bottom of the hill, I'm hesitant. Cornmeal doesn't work, boiling water is no good, Borax did nothing, baking soda made them move. . . I've tried almost everything, Maybe the oil will at least keep them out of the house!I love peppermint essential oil. It can be used for soooo many things. It will keep your house pest and insect free. Bugs and mice hate it. I don't know about y'all but I live basically in the middle of a corn feild and mice run rampant around here. My house was infested with mice and also ants, and I couldn't ever get rid of them, especially mice in winter, they just move right in and take over and don't pay rent! But a couple drops of peppermint essential oil in all the drawers and backs of the cabinets, along window sills, anywhere a mouse or ant can find a way in and i haven't had a problem since. You can actually watch the ants run away, I swear I can hear them screaming, lol. It's good for muscle and joint aches and pains also but it has to be diluted to use topically.
Between this and the eggs, you guys have me in a puddle over here. Being Sunday, I think I'm going to go get the skillet out and fry up some vittles.
I read something about no candling between the 14th and 18th day or 11th and 14th day or something like that. Didn't read it until after I had candled nearly every night. Didn't seem to affect our hatch any. Has something to do with the chicks moving during that time and interrupting their natural process.Candling is generally done on days 7,14 and 18 from the fat, air cell end in order to measure air cell growth and check on vein formation. Happy hatching.
K, I can't remember where I heard day 4 or 5 but I'll wait til day 7 instead. I hope I can keeps my hands out of there til then, lol. I can see right now when it comes time for them to start hatching I'm going to be an extreme meddler, lol


*Hopes Ravyn wants to hatch some BLRW eggs in the future**Ravyn does do swaps* j/s
If you open her beak to squirt in, *I think* it needs to go to the left side (have to check that), but don't squirt it into the open hole in back of throat... that is their trachea/windpipe, they will drown very easily...
Going to check something...
Lavender is a favorite color of mine, so is chocolate. j/s. . .
Morning, guys.
