Valentine's Day Hatch!!!

[k2chickens]

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congrat's on the upcoming babies, but this is the Valentines hatch thread. I believe there is just a regular February thread where people are hatching right now in so i bet you would get more help there, just trying to point ya in the right direction. Tonight at 10:30 will be my start of day 10, i will have an official report for all of you on what is looking good and what is sadly not going anywhere. Very excited!

 

[k2chickens]

4 and a half hours till i get my day 10 update!

 

[k2chickens]

well on day 10, out of 12 split light sussex egg's sent to me, 10 are looking good and 1 is a possible blood ring. Also, 6 of my 7 home grown millie egg's are going strong too with TON'S of movement. This is my first time with sussex egg's and i didn't know they would be this much harder to candle than my regular bantam egg's im use to hatching. I would say about 5 or 6 of them i could see very slight movement in...but the other 4 or so were just too dark inside. The egg's themselves are not dark by any means at all, just the insides are too dark for me to tell. So i just marked them down as "growing". I could feel the slight weight gain inside them and that helped me to believe they were growing along with the ones that i saw movement in. Maybe sussex egg's have thicker shell's, i dunno, but for now it looks like i'm sittin pretty.

 

[teddiliza]

Well, I candled again tonight just because I was worried about one, and I'm glad I did because the ominous black spot was larger, the air cell was bigger, and the veining was gone. Whew! Threw that one outside. So now of the 7 'I doubt they're any good but what the heck' eggs, I have 5 left that are developing and going strong bobbing around in there 'Whee!' Porcelain d'uccles are so cute! Crossing my fingers!

 

[k2chickens]

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i LOVE my d'uccle's, got 6 of them moving around inside their shells on day 11 as we speak

 

[aussieheelr]

Ok so I'm not crazy that I think some of my eggs have gotten heavier? I thought I was imagining things. Well that's good to hear since my candling skills lack something to be desired.

I can't tell what's going on for sure until day 13 but maybe that's because this is my 1st go round... well 2nd if you count my broody.

 

[k2chickens]

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lol, wish i had a broody girl.

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

unfortunately my 2 broodies have eggs that are hatching right now and some next weekend. the bator has the V-day eggs in it.

i just candled them last night and so far 3 had detached air cells (i know, i should have candled when i put them in but didn't) 1 was a dud, and it looks like 3 more are questionable. so it looks like 10 V-day eggs are doing good so far!

 

[pbjmaker]

I candled my V-day eggs last night. 2 were totally clear and I couldn't see in the olive eggs at all. Not even an air cell. All the dark maran eggs had a good air cell and some kind of something growing in them - I hope its a chicken

So I have 12 eggs due on the 14/15. 7 BCM and wheaton marans, 2 olive eggers, and 3 EE eggs.

I need the EE eggs to hatch so I can have more olive eggers! That EE of mine is a liberated woman and the rooster doesn't catch her often.

 

[Egg_newton]

Oh how I want some olive eggers.