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Hi all -
i posted about egg ring recently, and that embryo has grown since and is due to hatch tonight/tomorrow. very excited - it's wyandotte bantam silver pencil so here's hoping (out of 6 eggs).
Also have 4 dutch and 2 rosecomb in another incy and 4 out of 6 are fertile ! Which is quite good for novice like me - my rate as a novice last year was 2 out of 6 hatched (given postage etc). Does anyone else have advice/tales of novocutto incys?
Wonder if any of the forum people are going to Peebles poultry show next month - it would be great to meet up and chat about chickens then. Feel a bit scared about meeting the "professionals"!
ps thanks for advice about odd egg last time Tim - this is the remaining egg that is due to hatch tomorrow!
Dominic
 
Hi,
Good luck for tomorrow,hope it all goes well :D .
I've got 3 incy's now,a brinsea and 2 covatutto's,one is a covatutto 7 and the other is a covatutto 24.I find the name the most confusing part,as covatutto 24 is always called nova something (think it's novital) by seller's.
I am a complete novice at incubating though.
 
good luck with your hatch, i just had some CLB X MARAN hatch in mine 3 days ago for hubby and i now have it filled with pekin and silkie eggs, i have a brinsea octagon 20 autoturn and i also have a polystyrene one that i purchased from ebay which i use to hatch in only as i have a really bad memory for turning the eggs
 
Hi Dominic,

Excellent, I'm pleased your eggs are doing well. Normally, if you see a dark red ring, the embryo has died. I've been trying to find a picture of one but I don't have one. Another thing on my list - more egg photos this year!

Let us know how you get on ;-) I got my incubator full going last night too.

Tim
 
Thanks for your replies!My wyandotte egg has not hatched (yet!) but although bantams are meant to be 20 days and today is day 21 I am giving it a bit more time - hopefully it will!
I had two dominique eggs last year and they both hatched day 22 so I guess some are late out of bed...
Lydia thanks for your post - I have seen your posts often and I thought you were an old hand at all this!!!
I will let you know how things go and post pics as and when anything happens.
Dominic
ps about showing: was just wondering (as they say in books) - do I really need to shampoo my hen(s) if I show them beforehand? One is a bit flighty and I dont want to stress her out
 
Hi Dominic,

yes,regards showing you do need to bath them.With mine for their first show,I bathed them completely a week before the show.As they have feathered feet,I did re-bath just their feet and feet feathers on the day of the show.

With your flighty one,she may well enjoy the bath,do it a week before,as then natural oils etc will be back to give her feathers a glossy appearance by show day.

Try to also confine her for a few hrs each day the week before the show in a suitable container cage,where she see's,hears and smells activity,and also pick her up and examine her.This will help prepare her for the show.
 
Thanks Lydia - i wasnt going to show - too scared! But have decided to - what is there to lose?
Thanks for your advice.
Dominic
 
give it a go,the first show I took my pekins to,I'd entered the hen in the adult hen pekin class.Only at the show did I realise I could have entered her in a class for younger hens.She looked very immature to my eye compared to her contempories.There were 6 in her class,the judge was David Scrivener and he placed her second which I was thrilled with.
All the people were lovely,really friendly and welcoming.It's a good day out.My bantam cockerel got out when I was boxing him up at the end of the day.......... :oops: ......other people kidly helped me to detain him :D .
 
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