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My Horstman eggs are on the way!!!!!!


Praying for success with your eggs Amanda!! Wishing I had a way to incubate and raise my own. Perhaps in the future. Right now have to pay the charge cards, heating fuel and auto repair bills down.

Today was one of my 'down days'.. slept all day... then horror struck, coop human door had blown open and the chickens had a day of unsupervised free ranging!!!! So now the door is barred and soon as neighbor is back from town getting the knob he offered me. It had been stuck and hard to open all winter... guess spring is here as it is not tight anymore.

Irishmen I like the looks of your poultry! Thinking you will do well with those. Breed to the Standard and you could be THE supplier in your area! Good luck.
 
My Reese chicks from my pullets just hatched. Eggs are still in the incubator from the older Reese girls and also my RC RIR eggs from Dick Horstman. I candled them and they are looking good.
 
The eggs for my older Reese girls go into the hatcher Saturday or Sunday, due to hatch on Tuesday. I hatched out around 55 chicks the past couple of days. They were in 2 hatchers. One was 32 mutt eggs for a friend, all but 1 hatched. The remainder Reese pullet eggs were in the another hatcher. of the remaining 28 eggs, 6 turned out not fertile. and 6 didn't hatch. This was the worst hatch I've had in years. Hoping the older Reese girls do better. I'm going to put them in the hatcher that I got the best results from. Looks like I may change some cockerels and roosters around. Next month I will do a new hatch and compare.
 
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Hoping the eggs I gave Fred to incubate do well. Nervous on how well I held them over for him. Laying right now is sporadic. And somebody is laying elongated very light colored egg. Yard is all ice today!
 
Hoping the eggs I gave Fred to incubate do well. Nervous on how well I held them over for him. Laying right now is sporadic. And somebody is laying elongated very light colored egg. Yard is all ice today!

my yard has lots of mud. Makes for some really dirty eggs that I won't set. I'm hoping to get a few more nice clean eggs and set some between the 12th and 15th.
 
I realize it may be considered BYC blasphemy, but I wash every egg I set. Hatched 13 of 14 last Sunday. The 14th was infertile, so I'm counting that a 100%. You might be surprised how many breeders sanitize their setting eggs.

Sally, these are Fogles. You remember the sire(s) I used.
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my yard has lots of mud. Makes for some really dirty eggs that I won't set. I'm hoping to get a few more nice clean eggs and set some between the 12th and 15th.
Sally, you need a couple or three of my 'Jurassic birds'. You could hide them and no one need know you had them! They would gleefully set on your eggs with a bit of dirt on them and by the time they got through rolling them round their nests, in 21 days...out would pop some beautiful Heritage RIRs .

They would care for the Royal Chicks and gladly kick them to the curb when they knew the ways of the world...

Just having a bit of fun....but it is true. These miserable NNs are giving me fits, wanting to go broody.
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I realize it may be considered BYC blasphemy, but I wash every egg I set. Hatched 13 of 14 last Sunday. The 14th was infertile, so I'm counting that a 100%. You might be surprised how many breeders sanitize their setting eggs. Sally, these are Fogles. You remember the sire(s) I used. ;)
Ok... I admit it... I do just the opposite... I brush em off but do nothing more. Dirty eggs hatch just fine. ;-) I'd worry more about contamination and damage if i did wash them. I've had 100% fertility on all set eggs since the 3rd week in Jan, so... Must not effect fertility. Course I like to brood in the dirt too... makes for good immunity.
 

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