3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

Thanks, NotAFarm. I will add that to my chores when I get home from work on Thursday. I would have just died if one of the chicks got caught in the turner.

Mahonri- I had a pip on one of your rescued eggies this morning....

Does anyone here have Salmon Faverolles? I have a dozen eggs coming this morning and I am just soooo very Eggcited

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Today is day... wait, what day is it? I think I've lost track

Here, look at some pretty eggs while I think key the Jeaopardy music










Oh! Now I remember...

It's day 17




Which means

drumroll please




Tomorrow is Lockdown!!!!

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And since some of my eggs are Icelandic (which are early hatchers) I'm candling, and listening, while I lock them down tonight.

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I have Faverolles, you will love them, they are super sweet! My first pullet just started laying!

I'll probably lock down tonight also. My eggs always seem to hatch early, even when I lower my temps. Never found that it hurts much. YAY CHICKS! I have my brooder ready so something better hatch.

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I have Faverolles, you will love them, they are super sweet! My first pullet just started laying!

I have Salmon Faverolles eggies from Ebay cooking right now, but not for the New Year's hatch. These I set a few days later and are due Jan 7 I think. I had a whole batch (from a different ebay seller) due in December, but none of those developed at all! So I'm hoping for much better luck and/or quality this time.

My official new year's hatch eggs are from my own 2 pens: my pure Cornish roo in one pen with 2 pure cornish girls but of different colors than the roo and 2 grown up Cornish X hens. I got these 5 birds from a nearby woman who did a great job raising them and making them free range for a lot of their food so they didn't grow too fast. I'm not sure what she did when they were young though..probably fed them a lot when tiny, I would assume. Pen 2 is a blue-laced red W roo with a whole bunch of different hens: 1 blue-laced W, 1 blue W, 2 partridge rock, 2 EE, 1 Polish... It will be super fun to see what color the feathers of this lot all turn out to look like and see if I can figure out what hens they came from! um. guess I am counting my chicks before they hatch, aren't I??!!