Hi everyone! Some of you are following the special hatch, others of you are watching the custom hatches going on, and still others just love to see babies and watch for them to come along!
We fired up the incubator before Christmas, knowing we had a few folks looking for Silkies, some for Brahmas, and a few more for Buckeyes. THey have slightly different timelines, and we like to have the 'bator going for a bit before we start hem, just to get it all in balance.
As of tonight, we are two weeks in on some of the eggs, and one week on the special hatch we introduced you to last Sunday. We quickly candled the first few rows of eggs, but left he others alone as they would be a week or less in development. This is what we saw.
We chose to not remove the eggs that we weren't sure about. A few will likely be removed later this week as we prepare for the first of the eggs to hatch. The ones which seems unlikely, but are only a week along, could be due to a host of things, from too early to see well to just too much handling, or they could be newer layers who simply aren't ready to produce fertile eggs yet. We shall see!
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