Last candling

Ohhh this is the last time we will candle the eggs.. They all look ok and we saw some movement in all the eggs :) worried about one though that had a dark line across a little bit of the egg.. Don't know what it is but there was movement in it, so fingers crossed.


As you can see it's getting full in there.. You can see the air sac clearly. Well I'll post when they arrive and take some pics.
Jos xx

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Another photo for you

Here is another photo for you... It was taken by Scarlet on her phone on saturday night You can see the outline of the chick.. But mostly shadow It's getting big! So I'm sure I won't be able to see much again.

We will stop turning them on Friday :) hopefully they will arrive on Monday or tuesday.
See you soon
Jos xx

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Its day14 today! We candles the eggs again last night!.. they all look ok and you can see small movements but they are getting difficult to see.. as you can see from the video... if you look carefully you can see the outline of the chick...They must be growing and filling up the space..

I will have a quick look them once more but im sure it will all just be shadow.. we are going to stop turning them on Friday... day 18! so getting exciting ... only 1 week to go till hatching day.. we are all really excited!! we are still talking and singing to them lol so hopefully they will all hatch ok...

Will keep you posted

Jos xx

Day 8

Wow! we can see the chicks moving in the eggs...its so amazing!! We candled them last night.. Day 8, and they are all doing really well.. all moving around.. have a look at the little video... its so cute to see them... sorry about the background noise... the radio was on :)
All the kids are talking and singing nursery rhymes to them... lol... Fraser said he wants them to recognise his voice when they hatch :)
We are going to have another look on saturday.. so keep checking back to see how they are getting on.
Jos xx

Hi Everyone

Welcome to my new Blog!!

I have just ventured into the world of hatching chickens!! Its really exciting...

My daughter Erin and I went on an incubating and rearing chicks course, at Bev's Rare Breed Poultry in Cheshire.... it was Fab! Brilliant course and I would throughly recommend Bev's courses lots of support afterwards too :)

Well we now have a small Brincea 7 egg incubator and have bought 7 Sablepoot eggs from Bev.

They have been in the inccy for 7 days now and ALL are fertile....

We have candled them on saturday night and you can see all the little embroys growing nicely... The kids are really pleased and cant wait till they hatch... another 2 weeks to go!!

Here is a photos of Day 5.. you can see the embryo and all the little spider veins around it...

Hopefully they will all hatch... fingers crossed...

Im going to candle them again tomorrow evening.. so watch this space.. :)

See you soon

Jos xx