Lisa I am so glad that you got some of the SBELs. I had bad luck with them; huge wonky air cells and none ever pipped. Did I miss pics of them? Weird about the Marans; I hope you get some
I have not posted pics yet, i need to, they are cute! I want to give them little baths first, their fur on the heads are all slicked back and nasty, they need to be fluffed up
The air cells on these were weird too, most of them went up the side quite a ways on one side, like a "u" shape...I was worried too because the air cells got so big, like half air cell, half chick, I used hardly any water because the Marans were in with them and they are so hard to get dried out enough, and of course they were still too wet, just the opposite, and not enough air cell. I should not have kept them in the same bator I suppose. I lost the second marans, then went ahead and looked in the last few, all drowned, full of the wet slime. Dang it. Wishing I would have looked a little sooner....but the one baby that hatched first is still doing ok so far, not moving around a whole lot, but seems ok for now. I sure hope it is a girl! I have 6 SBEL's...I want to wait to see what gender for a few weeks, My neighbor wants one and I want two. If there are more than three girls I will let you know My luck there will be 5 boys and one girl. Or 6 boys....Congrats on your boy's mission call! That is exciting! Glad he is not leaving the country.Donna, that is too bad the welsummers are not hatching for you, poor Joel! If I get any in m y assortment eggs, they said maybe a couple Welsummer eggs, I will let you know if any hatch, you are welcome to them (if the stars line up, dark eggs are not hatching for me right now, Grrrr)
Sundance, I am staying far away from your place until yo have rehomed those birds, you have some fun ones, I am not even daring to think about it!
So tomorrow I plan to set the eggs from Blujems, and also two dozen eggs coming from birdguy
So much for that last batch. Sphinx, you called it, you win all the roosters that hatch from the eggs lol!! I really want to be done after I can finally find my showgirl eggs....no hatching all summer this year. No way. Really.! Really??
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