I have one Delaware blue rooster and three blue hens. I also have a 4 month old black rooster a blue hen 4 months and a splash hen 4 months. My eggs are a tannish and go large to medium size. The medium is off a young 8 month old hen. I love these birds. Mine came from a friend in Delaware. She...
I have them seperated in egg cartons and then I use small gage wire to seperate them. You can bend it almost anyway you want and I stay right by the incubators most of the hatching time any way. I have my incubators in the house in the spare bedroom. When they hatch I already have a system of...
What I do is put my eggs in an egg carton. I use the foam type. I cut the bottoms of the egg carton out so the air can flow all the way around the eggs. I then place the cartons in the incubator like normal. Now as far as turning the eggs go I don't actually turn the eggs. I have a pice of 2 x 6...
Nancy: I learned a lot from you and my fellow BYC friends. I think I got my first mail order eggs from you and you gave me lots of information.
P.S. My daughter got a new camera for Christmas so there will be lots of pictures of the hatch.
Good luck to you also. To hatch the turkey eggs at the same time you have to put them in a week before the chicken eggs or do like I did and have 2 hatches going at the same time. I can put the turkey eggs in with the cooler incubator while the hovabator eggs are hatching. Then after the chicks...
I have not been able to candle any of these eggs except for the 8 turkey eggs. To candel an egg you go to a dark room and with either a special light or strong pen flashlight put it ontothe egg and look for developement. There should be veins showing after the 7th day. I then check again on day...
This is the hatch I started on 2-10-2011. I got the eggs from several people including sandspoultry, fowlrus and gamebirdsonly. The other eggs I got from breeders. I also have some eggs from midget white turkeys, white holland turkeys and beltsville turkeys. I almost forgot the 14 white...
Yea depending on the outlook of these I may try to let some grow up and mate back to a BCM rooster. I have seen where that combo makes a black sex link. Something about a white spot. I book marked the page I think. It was way early this morning when I looked it up. It was here in BYC though. I...
I got some BCM rooster over Welsummer hen eggs from gamebirdsonly. Has anyone raised any of these and if so what are they like. What do the eggs look like and how is the mix over all. I should have ask gamebirdsonly but have liked everything I ever got from him . I think it will make a great...
Hey monkeyingaroundfarm. sandspoultry has some turkey eggs. I got 8 from them and they are very nice. They are Holland white, Midget White and Beltsville. They are very clean and nice size. They are right here on BYC. Steve and Sharon are very nice and they pack great to work with. They also...
I just got 16 of the most amzing dark brown Black Copper Marans eggs. I got them from sandspoultry. They are right here on BYC. I was lucky enough to be close enought to pick them up from Steve and Sharon. The weather here is kinda bad but it was worth it to go and get these eggs. I bought them...
The sad part about that is they count hatchery birds, not the just standard bred birds. so their number are not accurate for show type birds
I understand that they count hatchery birds but someone said they never heard of a RIW. There are several other people on here besides garnpa with...
I got this from the american stock breeders of america,
Rhode Island White Chicken
The Rhode Island White originated in 1888 through the efforts of Mr. J. Alonzo Jocoy of Peacedale, Rhode Island. He developed the breed by crossing White Wyandottes with Partridge Cochins and Rose Comb White...
I have seen a RIW. Several people on here have some. granpa with chickens has some and a friend of mine bought some of them and I hatched them out for him. Unfortunely his hen hose caved in from snow and killed them all. I am getting some more this spring for him and my self. I also looked them...
I sent William a message on 1-25-2011. I asked him if his birds were Mohawks and he told me the following "...My Reds were orginally Mohawks..I added other blood to them about 17 years ago and seen no reason to keep callin them Mohawks...William" I also ashed him to look at my 2 birds that were...
I know what you mean. My wife is a teacher and she works part time with Sylvan about 4 days a week and it is almost 7:00pm when she gets home. I am disabled and can't wait to see her when she gets here. I do fix dinner and clean up as much as I can but it's not the same. She is so tired from...