St. Patty's Day Green Egg Hatchalong, Set 2/25

[redriver]

Did you candle again......I want to candle so bad.....lol

No, I really want to. But since I am resolved to not cull any it wouldn't really serve any purpose other than to mess with them more. So, I am waiting for Saturday. Will weigh and candle, and make decisions about what to cull at that point.

Well, obviously my resolve didn't last that long because I candled this evening. Turns out all the ones I culled were good decisions. Thank goodness! My five original questionable eggs got tossed, along with a sixth that I didn't catch on Day 7. Went from 48 eggs to 42, which means I don't have to hand turn anymore! Yeah! Only one of the six looked like it had started to develop and then was an early quitter. The rest were either super early quitters, or we're not fertile to begin with. Hubby was a little enthusiastic cracking them open so it was hard to tell.

Will weigh on Day 14 to see how my humidity is doing. Probably won't candle again. Ha! Yeah right!

 

[coldupnorth]

Candled my eggs yesterday and pulled 5 of the 13; mostly my black Ameraucanas. I have 8 left - 1 Ameraucana, 6 of my EEs and 1 bantam EE. Hoping my EEs hatch - they are always big healthy babies and I love the huge green eggs they lay.

 

[Peterh005]

I just candled there I got 6 out of 7 eggs are looking good, 1 egg Is clear. Hopefully the 6 good ones will hatch!!

 

[what did I do]

I pulled some eggs today and they were all green (I have a few brown and white eggs in and they were all fertile). I REMOVED 11green eggs from 1 coop, I guess that rooster isn't doing his job. I have a few other eggs that were saved for 10 days that were clear too. It blows me away that almost all the clear eggs were from the same coop. The rooster in there is my Leghorn X Barred Rock who was hatch at the end of August. He is a much nicer rooster to the girls than the other rooster. Maybe when he is older he will cover all of the hens.

I'm down to 13 green eggs and 15 white and brown eggs. 28 eggs left.

 

[kaybee123]

18 eggs incubating, I had already culled three. Tonight on day 13, I candled and saw 13 moving and two I am thinking aren't going well. One I see no veins and clear, the other is too dark of an egg for me to see into it so I am leaving it in. . Not counting them before they hatch but it looks like I'll get some from my first hatch ever!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

So everyone is plugging right along...

Six clear MF Cochin eggs, and looks like my Orp Cockerel is not doing his job. So, 7 Orp eggs out, couldn't see in the Marans at all, but it looks like the OEs are developing, YAY! So down from 42 to 29. Not off to a very good start here.

 

[BroosterSpringsteen]

Everything seems to be going well here. Marked one last night as a questionable early quitter and left it in, but the other 22 look great. So from 24 down to 22, I think. Not bad. Glad to know my roo is lucky with the ladies.

 

[farmerChef]

I will be candling tonite, and then dying a few of my leghorns eggs tomorrow so I can hatch some green chicks

 

[willia03]

I will be candling tonite, and then dying a few of my leghorns eggs tomorrow so I can hatch some green chicks

How do you do this?

 

[farmerChef]

Ive done it a few times before. I use a large pillar candles and a birthday candle for the wax. Keep the big one lit, and light the birthday candle with it and drop some wax onto the egg.
I also use the thicker gel food coloring(like for cake icing) so I use a 20g or 22g needle, it wont do thru a 25g. You can use less because its more concentrated

http://chickscope.beckman.uiuc.edu/resources/egg_to_chick/coloring.html