All the eggs are in the incubator now! Here's a checklist:
2 Llena - EE/SLW
2 Chatta - EE/SLW
2 Yellow - EE/SLW
2 Red - EE/SLW
1 Cloud Blue - EE/SLW
2 Surprises - EE/SLW
1 Raven - EE/LB
1 Tufted - EE/EE
5 Moha - NHR/NHR
( EE = Easter Egger / SLW = Silver Laced Wyandotte / NHR = New Hampshire Red / LB = Light Brahma )
We're on day 1.5 now and everything looks fine. I do not have a hygrometer, though. The incubator was less than $100, is a still-air, and is styrofoam. So its a good one for first time users and pretty cheap, comes with everything but that. Sooo I need to get one asap, because the water rings on the bottom of the incubator are sooo hard to read when it comes to how much water is in them.
Aside from that news, Mila, one of my three Light Brahmas, is back in season starting today! She started up hear season's loud chatter, pacing around and back and fourth, braaawwk, brrawwwwk. . Over and over. Finally, things went quiet and she was flattened out in the nesting box. Aaah peace and quiet.
Once the eggs reach day 10, I will certainly have my camera ready and I will start posting photos of the candling. Then, after they hatch, I will post a photo every day of the development of the chicks. Since, for the moment, there are so many - I will only do one chick per crossing. (one EE/SLW, one NHR, and the only EE/LB and EE/EE crosses.)
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