Great Eggspectation UK

Day olds 🥰🥰🥰 #crazychickenlady #chicktok #chicks #dayolds #creamlegbar #polands #chickenlove #poultry #poultryuk #yorkshirechickens #rarebreeds #babychicks #easterchicks

Exhausted, putting on stacks of weight, thinning hair, no sleep BUT my chickens still their clucking, pecking, scratching and laying fabulous coloured eggs 🫶🏻 they got their own ageda and i love it 💛🐓🥰 #gravesdisease #crazychickenlady #hyperthyroidism #thyroiddisease #autoimmunedisease #chicktok #poultry #mytherapy #chickenlove #girlslovechickens #rarechickens #fluffychickens #chickens

Happy chucks in the sun (finally) #crazychickenlady #poultry #chicktok #ukchickens #girlslovechickens #fluffychickens #rarechickens #chickens

💙🥚Cream crested legbar and olive egger hybrid hatching eggs 🥚💙 Beautiful coloured eggs 🌈 Large eggs 🍳 Good layers 🪺 Auto sexing CCL chicks 🐣 Eggs can be posted or collected 🚗💌 Just drop a DM for more info 📱📍

Lots of little cheepers finding their feet and getting all settled in to the brooder 🐣🐣🫶🏻 #dayoldchicks #rarebreedchicks #ukpoultry #chicks #greateggspectationuk #cheepcheep #cutechicks #chickofinstagram #babychickens

Cockadoodle do mutha-fluffas 😆😆 #chickens #crazychickenlady #pretty annoying #poultrylife #funnychicken #chicktok #lovechickens #creamcrestedlegbar #sillychickens

A few more wont hurt right ?? 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️ Embroidered hoody by @fromyorkshirewithlovee -check it out in instagram and facebook 🚜 #chickens #crazychickenlady #funnychicken #sillychickens #chicktok #chickensofinstagram #petchickens #chickens #poultrylife #backyeardbantams #lovechickens #obsessedwithchickens #rarebreedchickens #chickensuk #farminguk #supportourfarmers #nofarmersnofood #nofuture #farmingtiktok #farmtok

🐓MEET THE NEWBIES🐓 In LOVE with this new group - cream crested legbars (blue eggs) and olive egger crosses (olive eggs) I still haven’t named this cockerel yes - any suggestions? Write below ⬇️ Hatching eggs available from these lot and the cutest chicks due next week 🥰🥰🥰🐣🐥 #greateggspectationuk #creamcrestedlegbar #hatchingeggs #yorkshirechickens #poultryuk #backyardchickens #chickenreel #oliveggers #blueeggs #rainboweggs #incubating #chicks #chicktok

Back at it 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 #greateggspectationuk #chickenpens #polandchickens #rarebreedchickens #poultryuk #yorkshirepoultry #building

🪺🥚 BACK IN BUSINESS🥚🪺 What a fab surprise today to find SIX eggs laid in the last 24hours!!!! The ladies have had a nice holiday for the last couple of months and are now back to the day job!!! I’ll be putting these in the incubator to test fertility- I’m not hugely positive about this but maybe I’ll be surprised once again!! 🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓 #greateggspectationuk #polandchickens #rarebreedchickens #breedingchickens #hatchingeggs #bantams #yorkshirepoultry #candycornchickens #homehatching #incubating #chicks #backyardchickens #pompomheads #afrochickens #petchickens

Can you guess which breed is my favourite??!! 💛🐓💛🐓💛 #polishchicken #polandhen #polandgrowers #rarebreedchicks #poultryuk #yorkshirechickens #crazychickenlady #greateggspectation #chickenmad #frizzlepoland #tolbuntpoland #backyardchickens #unusualchickens #prettypoultry #homehatching

How CUTE are these gold and dark Brahma bantams 😍😍 So excited to see these grow 🥰🥰🥰🥰🙌🏼 #polandchicken #greateggspectation #candycornpoland #hatchingeggs #breedingproject #breedingchickens #rarebreedchickens #poultyofinstagram #yorkshirechickens #incubatingchickens #hatchingathome #lovechickens #backyardpoultry #polishchicken #brahmabantam #darkbrahma #goldbrahma #bantambreeds #bantamchicks

🐣🥚 CANDLING EGGS - the ‘bad’ eggs🥚🐣 An example of some of the eggs which haven’t developed properly and need to be removed. Sometimes the embryo will start to develop and then die for an unknown reason. There are a few key times on incubation when death can occur. A thin ring around the edge of the egg indicates early embryonic death, usually within the first few hours of incubation (I call this the ring of death ☠️). Another type of early embryonic death show that the embryo has started to develop then died within the first week or so - these are called ‘quitters’. You can see the dark blob of the embryo and the cloudy egg contents swishing around. All these eggs need to be removed from the incubator so that they don’t go rotten 🤢🤮 you really really don’t was an exploder - not only for it contaminate the other eggs but the incubator will smell for weeks no matter how much you clean it!!!! #greateggspectationuk #hatchingeggs #incubatingeggs #candlingday6 #candlingeggs #polandeggs #breedingproject #chickenbreeding #rarebreedchickens #poultryuk #yorkshirepoultry #polandchickens #hatchingeggs #homehatching #backyardbantams #petchickens #badeggs #earlyembryonicdeath #hatchingeggs #infertileeggs #candlingbadeggs #incubatingeggs #chickeneggs #eggissues #removebadeggs #rotteneggs

🐣🥚 HATCHING PHASE 1 - PIPPING🥚🐣 At this moment 3/6 eggs have ‘pipped’. By day 20 the chick will have absorbed all of the yolk which means the chick can survive a couple of days without food or water. Now chick will break the shell by pecking from the inside. The chick uses its egg tooth to create a crack or small hole in the shell which the chick can now breathe air through. Hatching is very tiring process and there are LOTS of rest periods in between even after the tiniest change. The chick will rest inside the egg, breathing air and gaining energy to hatch in 12-24 hours later. Hatching is a slow process if you are impatient like myself who just wants to see the chicks after 3 weeks of waiting! However, opening the incubator or helping the chick before it’s ready can have really bad effects on the hatching process. Therefore as the saying goes ‘nature never rushes but is always in time’. Patience is key here!!! They’ll hatch when they are ready! Usually in the night 😆🙈 #greateggspectationsuk #hatching #incubatorlockdown #incubatingday20 #readytohatch #hatchingeggs #homehatchjng #polishchicks #brinseamini #bantamchicks #backyardchickens #yorkshirechickens #ukpoultry #pipping #eggshatching #eggtochick #eggspipped #hatchingprocess #chickenhatching

🥚🐣 DAY 19 - PREPARING TO HATCH 🐣🥚 The eggs have been removed from the turning mechanism and laid flat. The chicks will now be positioning themselves into the correct orientation to break through the shell and hatch. The humidity has been raised as high as possible to prevent the eggs membranes from drying around the chick, called ‘shrink wrapping’ which would prevent the chick from vacating the egg shell. For the next few days the incubator will now be in LOCKDOWN - meaning I will not remove the lid or disturb the eggs in anyway until hatching is complete. In nature, the hen would not leave the nest now even to eat or drink until the eggs have hatched. I will keep you updated over the next few days 🐣🐣🐣 #greateggspectationsuk #hatching #incubatorlockdown #incubatingday19 #readytohatch #hatchingeggs #homehatchjng #polishchicks #brinseamini #bantamchicks #backyardchickens #yorkshirechickens #ukpoultry

🥚🐣 CANDLING EGGS - DAY 14🐣🥚 This is the last time I will candle the eggs before hatching. As you can see the chick is nearly filling the egg now. I will take out any eggs which have only developed so far and then died, or are empty otherwise there’s a risk of a rotten egg explosion 🤮🤮 this can also have detrimental effects on the other eggs in the incubator - really not good! The eggs will stop being turned on day 18-19 so that to chick can position itself in the correct orientation for hatching. 🤞🏼 hopefully these remains 6 will hatch successfully in a weeks time! #greateggspectationuk #hatchingeggs #incubatingeggs #candlingday14 #candlingeggs #polandeggs #breedingproject #chickenbreeding #rarebreedchickens #poultryuk #yorkshirepoultry #polandchickens #hatchingeggs #homehatching #backyardbantams #petchickens

8 years old and looking like they hatched last week 😍 #crazychickenlady #silkies #backyeardbantams #hatchingeggs #petchickens #funnychickens #pumpkinchickens #chickenpumpkinchallenge #pumpkinfail #obsessedwithchickens #fluffychickens #bantams #poultrylife #rarebreedchickens #polishchickens #ukchickens #weekoldchicks #chicks #fluffychicks #houdanchicken ##arucana #wyandotte

First impression of the pumpkin wasnt great….but loved it once it was cut open 🎃🐣🐥😍 #crazychickenlady #silkies #backyeardbantams #hatchingeggs #petchickens #funnychickens #pumpkinchickens #chickenpumpkinchallenge #pumpkinfail #obsessedwithchickens #fluffychickens #bantams #poultrylife #rarebreedchickens #polishchickens #ukchickens #weekoldchicks #chicks #fluffychicks

Well this didnt go as i planned…. And yes the pumpkin is still sat there untouched 🙈 #fromyorkshirewithlovee #FYWL #crazychickenlady #silkies #backyeardbantams #hatchingeggs #petchickens #funnychickens #goldtop #brahma #pumpkinchickens #chickenpumpkinchallenge #pumpkinfail #obsessedwithchickens #fluffychickens #bantams #poultrylife #rarebreedchickens #ukchickens

🥚🕸️CANDLING EGGS - DAY 6 🕸️🥚 Candling is the process of shining a super bright light through an egg to see what shadows you can see inside. After setting the eggs in the incubator the first time I check them is day 6-7 (with some assistance from a 3 year old 🙈😆). Checking them before this can disturb the development and there isn’t much to see anyways. At day 6 you can clearly see the embryo which is a dot with spider-like veins coming from it 🕷️🕸️ hopefully these will develop and hatch into chicks 🐣 but some still may no get that far. The infertile eggs are clear and the light shines straight through. These will be removed to make space and also because they could become rotten 🤢 and even explode (which has happened before and wow, you’ve never smelt anything like it 🤮) I’ll candle them again at day 14 - check back to see what’s changed in a week! 🐥 #greateggspectationuk #hatchingeggs #incubatingeggs #candlingday6 #candlingeggs #polandeggs #breedingproject #chickenbreeding #rarebreedchickens #poultryuk #yorkshirepoultry #polandchickens #hatchingeggs #homehatching #backyardbantams #petchickens