Too Early for Feb Hatch-A-Long Thread??

[aliciaplus3]

I have an external pip this morning and a few internal pips. Hopefully I'll have freshly hatched chicks to show later on today

Sitting on my hands right now... eggs due tomorrow and I..am..not..going ..to ...candle...today. whew this is hard

 

[FortCluck]

Sitting on my hands right now... eggs due tomorrow and I..am..not..going ..to ...candle...today. whew this is hard

I just candled this morning because they were internally pipped last night so I wanted to check them this morning. One of them is externally pipped so hopefully it will hatch either today or tomorrow.

I'm hoping to get more silver chicks

I'm not very mobile right now so it's not hard for me to not check them. Probably the only positive side of me having the flu

 

[NNYchick]

Oh no! Maybe wait until day 10? I usually wait until day 10 before I toss eggs unless they're definitely bad or stinky. I have a 1500 lumen flashlight that I use for candling so I can see what's going on quite early, especially with light colored shells, but before I had it I could just barely see the development around day 6-7 with my first candler.
Otherwise, I'm sure he will figure it out very soon!

Normally I would do that if they were iffy but these are completely clear and I knew going in it might be a possibility. I got over anxious because I was finally getting a decent amount of eggs but they are coming out of a molt on top of the new young cockerels. Now I have 3 showing signs of going broody soon. Silkies can be so challenging to breed with their incessant broodiness

I opened a few laid this week but I’m not sure I think infertile too.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Normally I would do that if they were iffy but these are completely clear and I knew going in it might be a possibility. I got over anxious because I was finally getting a decent amount of eggs but they are coming out of a molt on top of the new young cockerels. Now I have 3 showing signs of going broody soon. Silkies can be so challenging to breed with their incessant broodiness
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I opened a few laid this week but I’m not sure I think infertile too.
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Hmm, the top right corner looks fertilized to me though. The other two not so much.

 

[FortCluck]

Normally I would do that if they were iffy but these are completely clear and I knew going in it might be a possibility. I got over anxious because I was finally getting a decent amount of eggs but they are coming out of a molt on top of the new young cockerels. Now I have 3 showing signs of going broody soon. Silkies can be so challenging to breed with their incessant broodiness
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I opened a few laid this week but I’m not sure I think infertile too.
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I always hate when I get clears! I only choose from my pink egg layers because they seem to have the best eggs. When I put my red sex link eggs in a few hatches ago, I disliked the look of the birds so I am not doing theirs anymore.

I doubt I will ever buy red sex links ever again... They are wonderful because they lay eggs every single day, but their lifespan is so short!

 

[Friendly_Lurker]

Looking forward to hatching my first blue and green eggs!!! They’re gonna look WEIRD!!!

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Looking forward to hatching my first blue and green eggs!!! They’re gonna look WEIRD!!!

lol, Do tell, why are they weird?

 

[NNYchick]

So I crack open 7 more eggs from this week, as I got closer to the end I started having them look like the one you pointed out. I stopped cracking once I got 2 in a row that had that big ring. I will collect for a few more days and try again. Hopefully they will keep laying and giving me 4-5 eggs a day. My satin and serama hen are broody this morning hopefully no one else joins in this week.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

So I crack open 7 more eggs from this week, as I got closer to the end I started having them look like the one you pointed out. I stopped cracking once I got 2 in a row that had that big ring. I will collect for a few more days and try again. Hopefully they will keep laying and giving me 4-5 eggs a day. My satin and serama hen are broody this morning hopefully no one else joins in this week.

Fingers crossed!

 

[Pyxis]

Yes, just got the first egg of the year from my ko shamos! Gonna collect a couple more and then set them.