About 10 days ago, the night before we brought my 5 year old home from Duke after a month of struggle for her, a coyote killed my hens. I had only one roo left. And six eggs, four of which I figured were too old to hatch but tried them anyway.
Thanks to the kind hearts here at BYC, we are rebuilding by hatching our new flock. Several people offered to send eggs and I was so overwhelmed with everyone's generosity. Both Lovinmypeeps and Sonew sent a box of eggs last week. I received some beautiful eggs on Monday this week and they have been set now.
Here's what I have in my bator now.
Of my six that I started with, one had a blood ring and I pulled it. They are on day 10. The others are developing and while one seemed to be an obvious clear at first, it is now questionable. 2 have obvious, moving babies, and one appears to have two???? Another had an obvious baby til I cracked it moving it. Now I have to look through the wax and I am not sure...
And here is what my friends sent:
5 - Mixed
3 - unmarked - one is silkie or frizzle, others are brown, large eggs.
1 - frizzle
2 - split lavender silkies
1 - standard cochin
5 - BR/EE mixes
They are on day two. Right now they are all in the same bator until the others get ready to hatch. Hopefully we'll have the new bator that we are doing dialed in by then. If not, I'll have to borrow someone's for a hatcher.
So anyone in the same time frame as these eggs hatching, please join. And anybody else who just likes to chat! Come along. Share what you have in your bator and lets do this together!
Thank you to all my friends on here who are helping our family rebuild our flock. It's a huge blessing. A very unexpected one.
"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"Matthew 19:19
Thanks to the kind hearts here at BYC, we are rebuilding by hatching our new flock. Several people offered to send eggs and I was so overwhelmed with everyone's generosity. Both Lovinmypeeps and Sonew sent a box of eggs last week. I received some beautiful eggs on Monday this week and they have been set now.
Here's what I have in my bator now.
Of my six that I started with, one had a blood ring and I pulled it. They are on day 10. The others are developing and while one seemed to be an obvious clear at first, it is now questionable. 2 have obvious, moving babies, and one appears to have two???? Another had an obvious baby til I cracked it moving it. Now I have to look through the wax and I am not sure...
And here is what my friends sent:
5 - Mixed
3 - unmarked - one is silkie or frizzle, others are brown, large eggs.
1 - frizzle
2 - split lavender silkies
1 - standard cochin
5 - BR/EE mixes
They are on day two. Right now they are all in the same bator until the others get ready to hatch. Hopefully we'll have the new bator that we are doing dialed in by then. If not, I'll have to borrow someone's for a hatcher.
So anyone in the same time frame as these eggs hatching, please join. And anybody else who just likes to chat! Come along. Share what you have in your bator and lets do this together!
Thank you to all my friends on here who are helping our family rebuild our flock. It's a huge blessing. A very unexpected one.
"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself"Matthew 19:19
