Sunday, 5 June 2011

Candling

Well we candled the eggs on Friday and saw some were fertile and didn't know about the others .. So we candled again tonight and 6 out of the 7 were moving around in their shells :). One was dead with a blood line around the yolk and a hairline crack in the shell...


It's really hard to see in the photo as they are dark shelled eggs and difficult to see through... But you can see a line if you look carefully...
But still 6 out of 7 is great :))
I also have some Poland eggs that were supposed to go under a broody ... But she decided when I got them she didn't want to be broody any more... So... I have made an incubator... Don't know if it will work but I'd rather try that let the eggs go to waste...





It's a poly box with glass in the top so I can see lightbulb and 2 thermometers and hygrometers... The digital thermometer isn't that great it tells outside and inside temps so I have the probe and the thermometer in together.. I would have thought they would say the same temp.. But not.. So I'm just going on the inside temp as that corresponds to my little disk thermometer. There are 6 eggs in here and I'm turning them by hand 3 or 4 times a day. Just set tonight so I'll see how they get on

See you soon
Jos xx



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