Order Up. Toaster oven Hatch-A-Long

[TwoCrows]

A coworker of mine just finished hatching eggs from my flock. He set 12 eggs, 9 made it to lockdown and 5 hatched. So those are the numbers to beat. He was using a Little Giant circulated air incubator with automatic turner. Let’s see if my toaster oven can do better than that.

Go Toast Oven GO! Team Toaster Oven!

 

[Alexandra Runner]

Hello! Is number 9 Dutch Baby still viable and available?

 

[Tstraub]

Hello! Is number 9 Dutch Baby still viable and available?

I got you down for Dutch Baby the first post had been updated

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

A coworker of mine just finished hatching eggs from my flock. He set 12 eggs, 9 made it to lockdown and 5 hatched. So those are the numbers to beat. He was using a Little Giant circulated air incubator with automatic turner. Let’s see if my toaster oven can do better than that.

C’mon, little eggies, we know you can do better than that!

 

[Alexandra Runner]

I got you down for Dutch Baby the first post had been updated

Oh, yay! Thank you so much!

 

[Tstraub]

Oh, yay! Thank you so much!

Absolutely, glad to have ya

 

[CloneFly]

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I'm setting 21 eggs from my backyard flock in my modified toaster oven incubator I have successfully hatched eggs in this incubator before my last run had about a 50% hatch rate with several fully developed chicks dead in the shell I have made some improvements to the incubator and plan to run it at a lower humidity this round in hopes of improving the hatch rate.

To keep with the oven theme all eggs have been marked with a number. These numbers will correspond to an egg or chicken food item in the menu below. Please feel free to place your order and cheer on any of these eggs.

The Sire should be my Black Copper Marans Cockerel Axl. There is a small chance that some of these eggs were fertilized by my leghorn mix rooster that the had been with the girls few weeks prior so if any hatch out white his contributions might still be in play
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The Ladies
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Eggs 1-5 are from my French Black Copper Marans Betty

1. Coq au Vin-CatInTheHenHouse
2. Souffle - Nym
3. Mayonnaise - (removed)
4. Quiche-Daniel Grey
5. French Toast - wrathsfarm
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Eggs 6-11 are from my olive egger Blue

6. Omlet- TwoCrows
7. Over Easy
8. Scrambled- GreenJay
9. Dutch Baby-Alexandra Runner
10. Fried Chicken
11. Chicken and Noodles
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Eggs 12-18 are from my Barred Rock Oreo. This is a sex linked pairing all males should be born with a white spot on their heads. Anyone choosing one of these is encouraged to predict the gender and hopefully I can witness the hatch and verify the gender

12. Boiled
13. Poached - Debbie292d
14. Fried Egg - Rock17
15. Pickled Egg-BackroadGirl57 predicts girl
16. Chicken Alfredo- GirlsHuntToo predicts girl
17. Rotisserie Chicken
18. Chicken Nuggets
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Eggs 19-21 came from my Olive Egger, Cocoa
19. Egg salad
20. Chicken salad
21. Egg Noodles-ChickenLoverTrin

Hello! Is it still possible to place an order for #11 chicken & noodles?

 

[Tstraub]

Hello! Is it still possible to place an order for #11 chicken & noodles?

Coming right up

 

[Tstraub]

Candling tonight went pretty well. Most of them look really strong. #1&#2 don’t appear to be progressing as quickly as the others. Maybe they are just in a weird position but they just don’t look to be filling as much space inside the eggs as the rest. With the dark shells it’s hard to tell for sure what in looking at.

12 was really active tonight so I tried to get a video. My phone was having trouble focusing in such low light but you can sort of see what’s going on.

 

[Rock17]

Go! Fried for the win!