Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long! - Page 892

The STRESSSSSSS! my temps are going wonky for last two days 102 to 98. And I was so excited about my icelandics because they always looked the best and had movement. Now I did my last candle tonight and got the bator ready for tomorrow but the icelandics don't look so good. No movement and the blobs are not filling the bottom half. And for sure one of the veins was almost non-existent. Oh and Mahonri has a pip and cheeping!

I'm going to go have a stress cry over my brinsea spot check.

I have difficulty drawing a circle! 

 

Probably not, the last time I called him after not getting a response to two emails..........an exact quote was..........."Oh, don't do the email thing."

 

I don't think he'll remember what he had to match an errant chick in the box, since I got 14 of a breed that I ordered 5 and got none of the third breed I ordered.  I just decided to run with whatever I got.  He has at least 50 breeds on his available list.

 

It's a cute chick.  If no one knows, I guess I'll find out when it matures.

 

Deb

I've been thinking that it kinda looks like a Black Australorp. I can post pics of my girl when she was a chick if it helps.

 

Probably not, I've had australorps.  This chick looks like it will be mottled.  Thanks for the thought though.

 

Deb
 

 

 Hang in there, Have a piece of chocolate!!  You may be surprised by what you will get by Saturday!! 
 

 

With 50 to choose from, you can probably narrow it down by half, that still leaves some 25 possibilities!!

 

 

I went nutty trying to figure out what the bonus chick from MM was last year. Looked at almost every chick pic they had, got it down to 2 and then had to wait for HIM to grown up. He's one of our favorites: silver spangled hamburg. A real gentleman. Perky, in charge ( except when the marans are around) and handsome, too. 

 

I turned the eggs, now time for bed, Much to do tomorrow, as in too much.

 

Probably in the heat of the AZ airport when it was flown it!!

The guesses for first, second and third out is just a tie-breaker.......if you're the only one to guess the number Mahonri hatches correctly, you don't need to match the moneyball   the first three hatched!
 

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Deb, If he has mottled Javas, I'd say it's a good chance that is what it is.....dark legs with yellow on the bottom of the feet.... single comb....

 

 

Looky Looky Looky!!!!! 

I got 12 eggs in the mail.

2 were broken.

Ten Eggs went through 18 days of incubation.

7 Went in for LOCKDOWN.

I candled, I pulled one clear/bloodring, and one bloodring out. And one more was stuck and i got it off the turner but it was broken a little but it was okay because it died what looked to me at day 3 or 4 of incubation. I'm thinking a hairline crack that I didn't notice.

Heres some pictures of my first time incubating!!

src="http://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/6817792/width/400/flags/LL"></a>     (Blood Ring)

<a href="http://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/image/view/album/6072249/id/5025041/sort/display_order"><img src="http://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/6817767/width/400/flags/LL"></a>     (Clear/Blood Ring which you cant see)

<a href="http://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/image/view/album/6072249/id/5025038/sort/display_order"><img src="http://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/6817764/width/400/flags/LL"></a>         (Weird Air Cell)

<a href="http://www.backyardchickens.com/gallery/image/view/album/6072249/id/5025042/sort/display_order"><img src="http://www.backyardchickens.com/image/id/6817768/width/400/flags/LL"></a>     (Thats the seven I kept in the bator for Lockdown!!!)

Let me know what cha think!!! :)

 

 

Oh my goodness. I did somthing terrible!!! The two eggs I sat out after lockdown were sitting on my dresser, and when I went to go throw them away, I candled one for the heck of it. IT didn't like anything, then I shook it real quick (not like up down everywhere shake, just a little thump type of shake) I felt somthing in the so I put the light back up to it, and IT WAS MOVING AROUND!!!! Even after it settled! I can't believe this. If me letting it sit out of the incubator didn't kill it. Surely the thump did. I don't even know which of the two it was. I just put it in the bator as soon as soon as I could.

Only from pictures--Mottled javas have different colored legs. This one looks like the pictures of Jersey Giants. I think I know the Breeder and He has Black Giants.

 

Black Giants is my guess and the white will go away at maturity. This does look a bit like my Black Australorps, but the feet and beak are wrong. Also BAs have more yellow to them instead of white as chicks on the body.

 

Ron