The Few, But Mighty!

Welp, this being a very strange year, it might as well affect Chickam, as well.

Out of the 36 eggs I set in our ReptiPro incubator ten days ago...only 10 have developed and show embryos. Weirdly, six of those eggs are ones we got from our neighbors, that had been refrigerated...I wasn't holding out much hope for those! An additional 6 eggs were too dark to tell if embryos were there, so I left them in the incubator...but time will tell, for those six.

For the rest, a whopping 13 were fertile yet never developed, with 5 more having damaged yolks. Only two eggs were infertile.

What does all this mean? Well, basically our hens and roos are doing their chicken thing and giving us strong-shelled, fertile eggs. WHY they never developed, not even for one day...is a mystery. The flock is healthy, and the ReptiPro incubator is working perfectly.

But...we'll take what we can get! On the plus side, with a small hatch comes the possibility that one of our broody hens can foster mama the chicks, provided we have a broody or two to choose from in two weeks. Right now we have several hens that are broody, so we'll see!

Onward to our hatch day of Saturday, April 11th!*


*Knowing our eggs, the actual hatch will start 1-2 days early tho, start checking our YouTube page on the 9th!