Hello hello! (I’m a story teller so this is a little winded)
So we decided to try to hatch out some eggs from our flock for the first time(none of our girls have ever gone broody and they have been laying for almost a year)
Anyways…the process did not go as well as I wanted it to
We used the 12 egg Kebonnixs incubator. Did everything right… we didn’t wanna go too crazy so we only decided to hatch 8. When it was time for the second candling on day 7, five of the eight eggs were not fertilized, womp womp.( I guess the girls were just not that into him).
I decided to candle the remaining eggs on day 12 because one was starting to look a little funky and just as I suspected; it was a quitter and so was another one which left only egg #8, the final one!
I candled day 14 just to be sure and there was movement so I was getting excited about lockdown. Day before lockdown we saw the egg move so much and then lockdown happened… and then nothing. The egg barely moved . I started to panic but on Thursday morning I got up to discover the first pipping action. I’m not really sure when the chick pipped through the egg but it was before 6 AM when I got up and it hatched around 8 PM later that night. It was amazing !!! I learned a lot from my experience and can’t wait to try again.
Welcome the sole survivor Beanie J.
We are getting more chicks from a farm this weekend for Beanie J. and some hatching eggs of a different breed to add variety.
Thanks for letting me share my journey with y’all
So we decided to try to hatch out some eggs from our flock for the first time(none of our girls have ever gone broody and they have been laying for almost a year)
Anyways…the process did not go as well as I wanted it to
We used the 12 egg Kebonnixs incubator. Did everything right… we didn’t wanna go too crazy so we only decided to hatch 8. When it was time for the second candling on day 7, five of the eight eggs were not fertilized, womp womp.( I guess the girls were just not that into him).
I decided to candle the remaining eggs on day 12 because one was starting to look a little funky and just as I suspected; it was a quitter and so was another one which left only egg #8, the final one!
I candled day 14 just to be sure and there was movement so I was getting excited about lockdown. Day before lockdown we saw the egg move so much and then lockdown happened… and then nothing. The egg barely moved . I started to panic but on Thursday morning I got up to discover the first pipping action. I’m not really sure when the chick pipped through the egg but it was before 6 AM when I got up and it hatched around 8 PM later that night. It was amazing !!! I learned a lot from my experience and can’t wait to try again.
Welcome the sole survivor Beanie J.
We are getting more chicks from a farm this weekend for Beanie J. and some hatching eggs of a different breed to add variety.
Thanks for letting me share my journey with y’all
