Chickam Eggs For 2025 Candled!

For those who don't know, on the 10th day of incubation we candle (shine a bright light) through the eggs to check for embryos--and weed out any duds.

So far I'm cautiously optimistic that the 5 hour power outage we suffered on the 2nd day of incubation hasn't affected our eggs. We really won't know until hatch day, May 31st - June 1st. 

 

But here's what we have!

Out of 15 eggs set, we have 10 with embryos, another one is an unknown because of a shell to dark to definitively see through (it stays in anyway), and 4 duds that never developed (eggs from Boudica - gold laced Wyandotte, Arson - Light Brahma mix, and two that were possibly from Gretchen - lavender splash Orpington).

 

Here's the 2025 Chickam roster of 11 eggs, with mamas listed if we know them. Turns out camping in the coop for two days obsessively watching eggs fall out of hen asses paid off!

 

1 - Peanut (Americaunas, dark shell, so unsure if viable)

2 - Takoyaki (Giant Cochin/Americanas mix, hatched 2024)

4 -  Bobo (tiny black bantam Cochin'd'Uccle mix)

5, 6 - Luna (silver-gray bantam Cochin mix)

7, 8 - Brick (gray/lemon bantam Cochin mix)

9, 10 - Large White eggs - Apricot? (Danish Brown Leghorn)

13, 15 - Arson (Light Brahma mix)

 

We're disappointed that Gretchen and Sticky weren't mamas this year...but in exchange they have BOTH gone broody and stand a great chance of being recruited to be Chickam mom this year!

For dads we have: Mjolnir the buff Orpington, Eggroll the blue laced red Wyandotte, and Bacon, a bantam Belgian D'anvers. I'm betting Bacon will be daddy for the bantam hens--the big girls are too optimistic of a climb for him. And the big boys have trouble locating the...um...needed area to sucessfully 'daddy' for the bantam hens.

But they've surprised us in the past!

 

 Next stop is hatch day!

When we go live, you'll see the livestream to click on here:  Chickam 2025 Live Stream