I'm wanting to fire up the incubator around first of February. I'm still working with 6 hens/2 roosters in my aloha pen, lots of cream legbars, and I have an olive Egger hen I think I'm going to put with one of my roosters who is a white splash. Hopefully they will still be laying in February.
Here is my main flock that was used to hatch the above birds this year. There are last years hatches and the year before in this group.
Have I told you guys lately how much I LOVE my alohas? :D
Here is where I am at on the program. These are this years hatches. Loving how they are looking.
In the first pic, on the right you will see two white birds. One a pullet and one a cockerel. This year I had about 8 that hatched out like this. I kept a pullet and cockerel for some test...
Deerfield no this is the first hatch I've had any like this. I really needed a rooster like this and it looks like one is going to be a awesome size. I wish I had something to put in pics for size comparison but I don't have any bantam size birds. I know my alohas are all bigger than my...
here she is again with her two sisters. All three of them are different color. She is mahagony, the middle one is more chestnut and the one on the right is orange.
Deerfield I'm glad you got your power back on. Thats the only thing I dont like about hatching in the spring, power outages are quite frequent around here. Most last less than 5 minutes, so we are lucky there.
I've been too busy to count how many alohas hatched. There are 8 or 9 of my hubby's cream legbar chics in there and 8 or 9 ameraucanas. They are too fast and dont sit still long to count. I might have time to separate them and count tomorrow. lol There is more in the incubator due to go to...
Sommer I have a friend who raises speckled sussex, she is going to let me know in the next couple days if she has a rooster of breeding age for me. I messaged her yesterday about it cause this was my thinking as well. The two whiter hens are a great size. The two that are more red are a...