i appear to have had a bit of an accident

[lynda66]

yup we waited 24 hours .... i tried candling yesterday with a really crap torch with dodgy batteries ... and it appears ... that the 2 silkies and 3 bad hair days .... all have the start of ikkle chicks .... unfortunately the 8 marans and 5 aracuanas shells are too dark/pigmented .... to see anything whatsoever, so this time may be a complete surprise ... dunno what i'll do if all 18 hatch though lol

[CoraxAurata]

I have kind of over run myself with eggs this time - if I end up with 48 chicks it won't bother me but OH will have tantrums <g>

[lynda66]

well i spose if 18 hatch i'm gonna have lots of roast chicken .... hmmmm 48 might be a little excessive

[MaureenHall]

I candled mine yesterday too and could see some signs of development in some of them but as I'm by no means an eggspert, I'm leaving them all in the incubator till they either hatch or go way over the eggspected hatch date. This first week seems to have gone really slowly

[julesapple]

Yummy....

.... i'm sure i shall become very adventurous with eggs

Use the whites for meringues and the lovely yellow yolks for lemon or raspberry curd!

All these eggs you lot buy - it's just fab!...and I'm having a hard time deciding to get just three hens! I never had this problem deciding how many kids to stop at

Jules

[CoraxAurata]

well i spose if 18 hatch i'm gonna have lots of roast chicken .... hmmmm 48 might be a little excessive

It was mostly and accident.... honest!......

[miss_corerupted]

i'm interested in getting some other breed chickens for eggs and maybe meat. Is it easy to incubate or should i start with chicks??

Any particularbreed recommended??

thank you

[Finedon.Dandy]

lol well you have 3 weeks till they start to wonder if you're ill again ... although there is kitten birth due before the chooks

Wish pea and pod could be cooked that quick! LOL!!!

[MaureenHall]

Well it's the end of Day 18 in the incubator (same for Lynda's too I think). I've just turned the eggs for the last time, and I candled them all too. There's at least 6 that look viable, at least 6 that's definitely not, and the others I'm just not sure. The ones that are definitely not I've taken out so that any chicks that hatch will have a bit more moving about room It's wait and see time now

[Snadger]

Good luck Maureen.....fingers crossed!

[di]

Good Luck Auntie Mo & Lynda from me too!!!
My babies are cheeping away spending their last night indoors.They've been outside during the day for a while now...tomorrow the hutch will be ready for their first big boy night outside!(we hope at least two,maybe even three out of the eight might be ickle girlies.)