🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[TheBajan]

My FBCM were a failed hatch so I'll be trying again. Setting a new batch next week so they should hatch about Aug 6th.

 

[kelseyk]

Set 14 assorted bantam eggs today - hatch day of 8/1. Blue Birchen Marans being set tomorrow.

 

[Vantic]

I will be setting Crested Creme Legbar * 12 and Blue Marans *12 from FireFox. Hatching around the 12th. No sales this time, they are mine all mine!

 

[wolfinator]

I'd love to do a hatch this year but no broody hens. I prefer to hatch eggs naturally. However, I have 10 ducklings coming around July 27th if order doesn't get delayed and I might get a few bantam chicks next week. I lost my last bantam back in January, she was about 5. She loved sitting on duck and standard chicken eggs for me. She'd go broody every spring and sometimes in fall. Between her and another bantam hen, they hatched a couple dozen eggs. I kept only 1, a rooster.

UPDATE:
Well, looks like I've got a broody hen after all!!! Of all my hens, she's one of my meanest. She's one of 3 Cuckoo Marans that I have. She's setting on a Runner duck egg, 3 Easter Egger eggs (2 blue, 1 green) and possibly one of her own eggs. She just started setting on them on the 9th & 10th so that puts hatch dates of chicks on the 30th & 31st and duckling on 8/6 . Only thing is she's refusing to let me put her in a separate private area, a 2x3x4ft wire cage. She completely freaked out so I had to allow her to set in the nest. Problem is, it's the top nest. We do have an old small coop but it needs a bit of work as I haven't used it for almost 2 years. So over the next couple weeks its getting a new roof and floor for her and the anticipated chicks and duckling.

This is her in the top nest.

 

[FortCluck]

UPDATE:
Well, looks like I've got a broody hen after all!!! Of all my hens, she's one of my meanest. She's one of 3 Cuckoo Marans that I have. She's setting on a Runner duck egg, 3 Easter Egger eggs (2 blue, 1 green) and possibly one of her own eggs. She just started setting on them on the 9th & 10th so that puts hatch dates of chicks on the 30th & 31st and duckling on 8/6 . Only thing is she's refusing to let me put her in a separate private area, a 2x3x4ft wire cage. She completely freaked out so I had to allow her to set in the nest. Problem is, it's the top nest. We do have an old small coop but it needs a bit of work as I haven't used it for almost 2 years. So over the next couple weeks its getting a new roof and floor for her and the anticipated chicks and duckling.

This is her in the top nest.
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One of my meanest is hatching eggs too but she will be a great at protecting them.

 

[Willow2253]

I’ve got to start checking fertility of my flock, I think I want to try a few eggs from my own chickens.

 

[Muscovy Wunda]

How have I only just found this? I am here with my 12 highly fertile pekin duck eggs due to hatch the 4th. Lets see if we get em all to lock down!!

 

[Capt Mike]

Just set 45 in my new to me incubator........

 

[HappyClucker7]

I'm watching this thread. I'm not hatching, but I want to see lots of cute babies.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Same here. I just finished my July hatch and think it's time to chill for a while and just enjoy the fuzzy babies that belong to others.