Sunday, February 28, 2010

Homesteading Adventure #3: Second Official Candling

We candled again today and we are left with 16 eggs in our incubator.
The 8 eggs we marked as X at last candling were all still showing no progress and have been tossed.
We are holding steady still with 6 ?s and 10 :-)s.
What's interesting is that a couple of our ?s turned into :-)s and a couple :-)s turned into ?s.
In fact, two of our original ?s (eggs #15 & #17) were the eggs that this time stunned us with MOVEMENT! That was pretty darn cool!
One egg (#22) has me really confused. There is definitely something in it. But it seems to move only when I gently move the egg. I couldn't really tell if it was moving on it's own at all. So egg #22 has an * next to it. I'm interested to see if it continues to grow or if we lost it.
Since I don't have a picture for you today, check out this link:
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261876
You can follow along with us and see what our eggs look like.
Today is day 7. Our approximate hatch date is March 14th.

Here's what our list looks like:
Egg # 26-Feb 28-Feb
3 :-) :-)
4 :-) :-)
5 :-) :-)
8 :-) :-)
9 :-) :-)
10 ? ?
11 :-) ?
12 :-) :-)
13 :-) ?
15 ? :-) Movement!
17 ? :-)Movement!
18 :-) :-)
19 :-) :-)
20 ? ?
22 ? ?
23 ? ?

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