- May 5, 2010
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So far this year I've failed at hatching anything... but I'll join! Maybe the worst rate award is for me XD Though the BEST prize would be some of these chicks hatching!
So I have 20 eggs total that count for the contest days. 15 chicken and 5 duck. The chickens are 8 black silkies and 7 showgirls(?!) first gen silkie roo/turken hen cross. The ducks are crested pekin/pekin. The picture has the non-contest eggs crossed out.
All of my chicken eggs look like they are developing (hard to tell on brown eggs!). Two ducks are good, two were infertile and I'm not sure what I did with the 5th one XD Going to re-check the bator (and discards!) tomorrow when I'm more awake lol.
My two remaining duck eggs hatched, 1 on Mothers Day late at night and the other around 3am Monday. One crested, one not crested. Never did figure out the 5th duck egg... it wasn't in the incubator nor tossed (my dud eggs were still sitting on the desk when I checked, I hadn't thrown them yet)... maybe someone with better eyes can read it? It's the one in the bottom right corner... Maybe it's an egg for another hatch and I messed up marking it out? Dunno since I re-arranged the bator so the hatchers were by the window :-/ Anyway, here's the ducks, there in with my chicken hatch from last week...
I helped them out a bit... they were rather large for their shells and a little stuck! I'm sure they would have done it fine on their own...
My crested baby <3
*Only the ducks were entered in the MD Hatch. But the chickens are... 3 Turken/? Crosses, 1 (1st gen) showgirl, 3 Silkies
The 15 chicken eggs I entered ALL looked good to go when last candled They aren't due until tomorrow but I have currently 4 pips! 2 "showgirls" (1st gen) and 2 silkies. I may have started getting TOO into hatching and now have stacked eggs... only after filling that little space on the side of course XD I wasn't sure the hatching chicks would do so well with another egg on top of them so they are really stacked funny now...
:-D
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