The Wyandotte Thread

[NanaKat]

I have been having a horrible hatch rate this fall and winter ...the eggs are fertile, but I'm getting a lot of quitters. This goes for the banty and the large fowl.
I'm going to wait and condition and then collect in the spring.
Looking into a better incubator too.

 

[DMRippy]

I have been having a horrible hatch rate this fall and winter ...the eggs are fertile, but I'm getting a lot of quitters. This goes for the banty and the large fowl.
I'm going to wait and condition and then collect in the spring.
Looking into a better incubator too.

I have my best hatches using the dry incubation method. I find they drown if the humidity is too high.

 

[NanaKat]

I have tried that before and did okay. I did a half filled incubator. This time I was using all 48 cups and was rotating in and out several hatches....adding when I candled and removed for the hatcher.
Will go back to the dry hatch for one more hatch with selected eggs. Thanks.

 

[DaphneNL]

Nice pictures cluckcluckluke. Beautiful eyes!

 

[jewel1]

Just wanted to share...

My Columbian Wyandotte (Roxy) is likely not show quality, but she's turned from the ugliest little runt of a chick that couldn't grow feathers...into a beautiful young lady who graced us with our first eggs Thanksgiving week! She makes me laugh almost every day because she's a talkative little thing and always comes running (waddling) over at high speed when she sees me, hoping for a treat.

Then....


Now!

oh, and she loves to boss around my cats....


She's just a joy.

 

[DaphneNL]

She's the cutest! I think she's beautiful.

 

[sophiesmith]

Here is my Wyandotte hen,Wing.All She does all day is sit on the eggs. She is feisty

 

[sophiesmith]

Just wanted to share...

My Columbian Wyandotte (Roxy) is likely not show quality, but she's turned from the ugliest little runt of a chick that couldn't grow feathers...into a beautiful young lady who graced us with our first eggs Thanksgiving week! She makes me laugh almost every day because she's a talkative little thing and always comes running (waddling) over at high speed when she sees me, hoping for a treat.

Then....


Now!

oh, and she loves to boss around my cats....


She's just a joy.

She is so cute

 

[faysel]

msladyhawke this is salmon wyandOtte

 

[DaphneNL]

Those wyandotte girls can be pretty stubborn when it comes to sitting on their nests. If they decide it's time to sit on some eggs for a couple of weeks, it's very very hard (or impossible) to get them of the eggs.