I've got quite a bunch of incubating going on as I've been buying eggs plus hatching my own. I'm having issues keeping track of it all. I would do another hatch along but that does take a lot of work and sometimes I don't give it as much time as I feel I should.
Thus, a couple folks suggested I just post what's going on here, add pictures as I get time. This sounds like a great way to keep track of everything all in one place!
Incubator 1: (Brinsea)
Has 16 of my own silkie eggs in it. I call them my fancies as they are from a breeder that raises show quality. They are vaulted and bearded. Seven in total of those.
Also has 12 Paint silkie eggs, shipped in from South Carolina. They took over a week to get here so not sure what to expect with that on top of the trip. I've hatched several batches of shipped eggs though and usually do pretty well, up in the 70% range. If it's over 50%, it's fine with me. These were all set February 17th.
On deck:
22 eggs, mostly silkie but other varieties arrived today from @2ndTink. We're swapping eggs so I got to see what a green egg looked like in person for the first time today.
Also on deck, the second batch of Paint silkie eggs the seller sent when she thought they lost the first ones. Both of these boxes arrived today and are sitting in egg cartons to be set tomorrow morning/afternoon.The breed pens for my "fancies:"
Piper, one of two roosters, but the only one in the pen. The other is Blueboy. The ladies are Marsha, a splash, Charlotte and Cocoa Puffs two chocolates. I've also just added the black hen. Blueboy is free-ranging with his partridge hen and the 7 pet quality silkies.
Probably on Saturday, or within a week I will have two dozen cuckoo/buff/paint silkie eggs arriving.
These are from the first batch I got from her. They are now three weeks old and live in the brooder in our house. Carol and MB are two of them.
2025 Breeding Pens:
MB, Winnie, Ember, and Marsha is somewhere in there
Mocha, Charlotte, and a couple of black hens
Lester the lemon cuckoo, Carol, Tina, and Tanja.
Buddie - cuckoo roo, Katie - cuckoo, and Bridgett - blue
Outside breeder pen, Missie the grey moorehead partridge, Petra the white supposedly paint, Patty the paint, and Wyatt the white roo.
2/17/24: Set 18 of our eggs, 12 paint. 1:50 p.m. Due: 3/9.
2/21/24: Set 22 Tink's, 2nd set of 12 paint. 10:00 a.m. CST Due: 3/13.
2/25/24: Set 24 Buff/cuckoo, paint 3 a.m. Due 3/16
3/4/24: Set 12 of the pretties eggs. Due 3/25 9 hatched.
3/9/24: Set 23 eggs of the pretties for the Easter Hatchalong. Due 3/30. Put most in the NR360 and the rest in the Brinsea. 20 are left.
3/22/24: Set 22 of the pretties, due 4/12. (19)
4/10/24: Set 28 due 5/1. Lost several due to power outage causing rotator to stop as well. Down to 12 viable and 5 questionable in lockdown.
4/27/24: Set 24 due 5/18. These are Shelley's 7 & my 4
Missing two batches hatched.
5/15/24: Set 19. Due 6/5. Hatched 18.
5/30/24: Set 16. Due 6/20.
6/6/24: Set 35 of Bobbi's shipped eggs. Due 6/27. Only 11 hatched, but they are gorgeous. 3 are NN so will keep all but those.
6/13/24: Set 24 due 7/4. This was my last for the season, until...
7/16/24: Set 63 for the Brinsea Connect App Testers 7/21 ditched 10. On 8/5, one hatched, 8/6, about 35 more hatched. Keeping 2 silkie paints and a dark unk silkie.
9/15/24: Marsha, Ember, and Bernice were sitting on eggs. Five hatched. A day later, one remaining egg was found on the bottom of the hutch after a 2.5 drop. Miracle hatched a couple days later.
9/29/24: Set 14 from an exhibition breeder, unk if any are fertilized. Due: 10/20/24
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