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Tarnish Chickens

Follow along as we hatch Silkies, Polish & Easter Egger Chickens.

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Easter Egger success!

April 24, 2017 Steve Leave a comment

We received 10 blue Easter eggers, 6 olive eggers and 2 misc dark brown eggs.  All eggs came in the…

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Not much luck with Silkies/Polish

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Of the 10 silkies and Polishset in the 2nd attempt, only 2 hatched.  One polish and one silkie.  The silkie…

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Removed the turner

April 14, 2017 Steve Leave a comment

I removed the turner. The 2 remaining ‘A’ eggs should be set to hatch 4/16. I’ll manually turn the ‘B’…

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Candling Day

April 6, 2017 Steve Leave a comment

Today we made our first documented try at candling the eggs.  The early batch (group A) isn’t doing too well…

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28 more eggs set

March 31, 2017 Steve Leave a comment

I set the remaining 28 eggs.  The hatch due date is 4/21/17.

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Easter Egger Eggs Arrived

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I received a call from the post office to pick up the Easter Egger eggs at 6:30am.  Their timing was…

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Silkie & Polish – Take 2

March 30, 2017 Steve Leave a comment

The 2nd batch of Silkie and Polish eggs arrived.  They’re were still quite a few broken but at least 10…

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Set the first 6

March 26, 2017 Steve Leave a comment

I set the first 6 eggs.  Considering how much damage occurred to the box and the other 9 eggs, I’m…

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Shipment #1

March 24, 2017 Steve Leave a comment

The first order didn’t go quite as well as we hoped.  Of the 15 eggs, only 6 weren’t scrambled in…

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  • Removed the turner

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