So I decided to try again this year. I guess I just couldn't give up after trying all that, and of course, just missed having some chicken pets. I love those birds hanging out in the backyard, browsing around, doing their things :)). After reading some online blogs, frequenting some of those chicken forums, youtube videos, I was sold. I got some eggs, started my incubator. (Well, had some bad luck with shipping, so had very little hopes for any peeps. Just when I almost gave up hopes, there were peeps!
I did have to throw away a lot of scrambled eggs and clear (Non-fertile) eggs which couldn't deal with the stress. I also had to throw away few (about 4) that were fully developed but dead. I didn't even see any sign of attempt to 'break in' or out rather. They were just simply asleep and never woke up:(. I have no idea why those didn't make it and these did. So I ended up with 4; blue, black,splash,chocolate orpington. My son named them all.
And finally, this is Peaches
-I started the Genesis 1588 Incubator on 3/9/2012 (5:30PM)
ReplyDelete-Egg arrived the same day, so at 7PM I started the settling period .. so they will sit for 24 hours outside the incubator
-Next evening (@5:25PM 3/10/2012) - Eggs are put on Turner inside the incubator
-------21 Days to wait approximately------------
my second batch of eggs arrived on 3PM (3/12/2012). Instead of placing them in the incubator, I decided to let them rest/settle too.
ReplyDelete-Then I started the second batch of eggs also on the following evening (5:30PM 3/13/2012) -> This is the batches from which Peaches was the only survivor (I had 3 additional fully developed dead chicks) :(