I put the first eggs in my new incubator last night, three goosy-lucy eggs.
I can’t really remember ever having hatched anything other than hen and quail eggs before, but I’m sure we must have hatched duck eggs when I was younger, so this will be interesting. The new incubator is a manual turner so I’ve [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hatching’
Goose eggs
Posted in Day-to-day, tagged Eggs, hatching, goose on April 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
White Texas A & M Quail
Posted in Quail, tagged 2009, egg, hatching, incubator, log, plan, Quail on January 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I started some more eggs off in the incubator the Friday-before-last, I bought 24 White Texas A&M eggs to try and have 11 of my own eggs in there as well. The time has gone really quickly, they’re due to start hatching a week tomorrow.
I’ve only put in eggs from one of my quail houses [...]
Quail Egg Setting
Posted in Film/Video, Quail, tagged Eggs, film, hatching, incubator, Quail on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Eggs all now safely in the incubator!
Getting ready for hatching
Posted in Quail, tagged Christmas, Eggs, hatching, incubator, May, Quail, thunder storms on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m getting ready to hatch some quail eggs, I’ve been collecting the eggs and turning them for the past two days and the incubator has been washed and is running ready to put the eggs in on Saturday.
It seems like an ideal time of year for hatching now, especially after the disaster of the lot of eggs [...]
Richard Dorking
Posted in Chickens, tagged Chicken, Eggs, hatching, pure breed, Richard Dorking, Silver Dorking on November 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ever since I took over the pen of chickens that I’ve been looking after I’ve wanted to try breeding pure Silver Dorkings or Marsh Daisys, I’ve spent hours on eBay looking at hatching eggs and going through poultry forums for sale lists. I’ve even almost arranged buying eggs but whenever I’ve been able to hatch [...]
