The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

[Penny Hen]

I set my peafowl eggs yesterday... Doubt they're fertile, but why not set them?

-Kathy

That's what I have done with my pullet eggs.

SET ALL THE EGGS!

 

[Penny Hen]

These eggs should hatch on March 8-10. I may still be able to set button quail for HAL.

 

[chattery41]

So if the old wives tale is true, about the rounded eggs being girls, then i should have 3 'for sure' girls here. Whatcha think ?

 

[TJordan]

So if the old wives tale is true, about the rounded eggs being girls, then i should have 3 'for sure' girls here. Whatcha think ?

Let's hope it's true

 

[chattery41]

that one on the bottom i had to candle to figure out which end was up.
So if the old wives tale is true, about the rounded eggs being girls, then i should have 3 'for sure' girls here. Whatcha think ?

 

[UGLYFOOT]

I got them in this morning! Unpacked and there were 5 Neider eggs but one was crushed. The other eggs all around were just fine so I am betting it already had a hairline crack. But I have 6 Oruste (sp) and 8 Twentse. I am going to have to look up how to spell and pronounce these guys. They have been resting since 10 this morning. Do you think I could put them in at 10 tonight or should I give it to the morning?

I looked at that auction too. I waited at least 12 hrs. Depends on candling and what the air cells look like. If really bad i waited till the next day

 

[Sahwithchicks]

I set my peafowl eggs yesterday... Doubt they're fertile, but why not set them? 

-Kathy

I would too, hope they are fertile! Good luck!

 

[NotAFarm]

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Sixers rock!

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Soon to leave the fabulous fivers for the sexy sixers?

I guess that makes me sexy.

What is for 7 years, Senile Sevens?

Yep........Senile.......

I set my peafowl eggs yesterday... Doubt they're fertile, but why not set them?

-Kathy

SET ALL THE EGGS!!

 

[Cynthia12]

I won an aution also for 17+ with 4 different breeds including Neiders. That's why i asked, I wondered if we were competing! Lol glad we both won... Yay for us. I have 3 Neider babies and they are the sweetest i have ever had.

Are these good layers? Have been looking at them. Also..broody?

 

[Asever1]

EMU Egg update!

I weighed the eggs last week and they have all lost about 15% of their original weight. I had to use a different scale though as I think the first one I used was rounding the weights up to the nearest 50grams which is throwing everything off. I was able to calculate what the original weight of the eggs most likely was using a formula I found online.

In any case, the eggs are rolling along nicely. Sure wish I could candle them, but I'm fairly certain I have viable eggs. When I turn them now I notice that they try to rotate back to the position they were previously in. Based on experience with my chicken eggs, I believe this is because the growing embryo inside weights the egg as it settles which causes it to want to stay in the same position. So, I have to prop them up a little bit to keep them from rolling back. I take this as a good sign that all is well and I have baby Emus in all of my eggs! (just a theory..

lol)

My younger son came in with some duck eggs a few days ago (we have three Rouen ducks, 1 drake and 2 hens) He asked if we could try and incubate the eggs so they are now in our spare incubator! Timing wise they won't hatch on Easter, but what the heck!

We had our chicken coop decimated the day after New Years. A dog got into the coop and gorged on our chickens. We lost all but two. Luckily the dog left the ducks alone and our beautiful Royal Palm turkey flew away to safety. It was a hard blow and the kids were super upset. So when my son asked to hatch a couple duck eggs, how could I say no??

On a sorta semi-sweet note, the night the dog killed our chickens I found one lone egg in the nesting boxes. I heated up the incubator and hatched the little sweetie. We are calling her "Legacy" in remembrance of our lost chickens. Not sure who her parents are, but she looks like our old EE roo and maybe the golden laced hen we had.
She's darn cute no matter what!

So that is the EMU egg update and a little more....