🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[Applesoy]

That egg is viable.... absolutely a keeper! Cross my fingers for you!

Thanks so much for the reassurance TheBajan! I really hope this one is going to be our first first chick!

 

[FortCluck]

I’ve got 3 of them atm and getting more eggs to hatch. xD they’re pretty awesome little birds. Now if only I could hatch some pullets this time around.

I have always had more pullets than cockerels.

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

Here are the eggs that I'm going to incubate.

The first five are all from Asian Black hens with a swedish black rooster. The last one is from a mixed hen and a bantam Orpington. The third egg is a strange purplish color.

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

I usually use homegrown eggs for incubating, but I have ordered eggs quite a few times. I have only gotten eggs from local breeders twice. I don't remember ever getting eggs from a hatchery.

 

[RoseHawke]

Set Araucana eggs yesterday. Set more BCM eggs and some questionable CCL eggs (not sure they are going to be pure bred...sounds like they could possibly be crossed) today. My SFH are on the way. And just ordered more Isbar/Silverudds and CCL as well as Speckled Sussex. And have replacement Wheaten Marans on the way. Crossing fingers my hatches start turning around. Pretty sure the last 3 BCM eggs out of the group I dropped are DIS (these did not fall...hatch day was yesterday). Sold 8 of my April hatch pullets and have another person really interested in buying some BCM, CCL, and Isbar from me.

kelseyk, FWIW, I pm'ed Blue Ribbon Farms via FaceBook and he seems as concerned about this as I am. To quote, after I'd asked if there were any other such complaints or observations: "No your actually the first. Which worry's me. I try to only sell show quality eggs, a few of mine are not. But strive for repeat sells. I've hatched out of these but sold the chicks before feathered."

That said, I've gone back and looked at another thread I had going on with the person I'd passed along a "trio" to, where she posted a couple more recent pix for me, and although one of the pullets turned out to be a cockerel, they do all at least look like Legbars, no beards or muffs to be seen.

 

[CindyinSD]

Here are the eggs that I'm going to incubate.View attachment 2270291
The first five are all from Asian Black hens with a swedish black rooster. The last one is from a mixed hen and a bantam Orpington. The third egg is a strange purplish color.

Do you think that first one might be a double yolker? They don't survive—ever, that I know of.

 

[Misfits Farm 92]

I do think that the first one is a double yolker. I do know that it probably won't survive until lockdown, and that it will need help hatching. I am willing to give it a try.

 

[TheBajan]

Do you think that first one might be a double yolker? They don't survive—ever, that I know of.

Cindy, I know they very seldom survive but I did see a video of one that made it. They needed assistance but the guy hatched one and then I believe it was the next day when he hatched the other. It might have been on BYC but I don't remember for sure.

 

[kelseyk]

I put 3 blue birchen marans into lockdown yesterday and 1 opal legbar into lockdown today.

 

[FortCluck]

I put 3 blue birchen marans into lockdown yesterday and 1 opal legbar into lockdown today.

I can’t wait to see them!!!