My journey along hatching my first chicken eggs and beyond!



Thursday, December 8, 2011

A little this and a little that!

Today was another day of candleing. Today was a day of surprise. I didn't really know what I would see, but I'm not too surprised about what I didn't see either. As far as I know, two are much farther along than the other two. Meaning the two lacking in development are probably dead. But don't think I killed them. Remember, I got this batch of eggs not knowing if the eggs would even be fertile or not, so that by itself is its own experiment! So now for some pictures; they aren't the greatest because its kind of hard catching the slight vision of veins. The Rhode Island Reds are especially hard to photograph because the shell is a brown speckled. But I got what I could.

Egg 1: White Leghorn
Status: No change

Egg 2: White Leghorn
Status: Definite change. You can see veins! It definitely looks better in person then in photos.

The air sac is located at the wider end of the egg.

You can see the air sac up top here and veins under it!

Egg 3: Rhode Island Red
Status: Dark area larger and veins are visible!

Egg 3 again. No picture of the second Rhode Island Red Egg 4,
but there's no change from the last. So I think it may not really
have been as fertile as I thought.

Secondly I kind of think I should post picture of the dad, and moms!! We have no idea which mom it came from but...it's got to be one of them!

The whole flock I believe. Rooster in the middle. Hens surrounding. The white ones are White Leghorns, the brown ones are Rhode Island Reds. There may be some Brown Americauna hens but not sure.

Closer up of the Americauna Rooster!

Well that's all for now folks! I hope y'all have had a great week!
Hopefully some baby chicks are in the close future!

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