3rd Annual New Year's Day Hatch!!

[anderson8505]

BuffBeauty has some gorgeous Salmon Fs. Her roo, so darn cool, looks like Abe Lincoln to me. Ah... someday. Can someone come over and turn my back-backyard of a 1/2 acre into one giant coop??? That would make things easier for me.

I didn't want to jinx myself by posting this earlier but I've got most of my eggs (almost all of which were shipped) still developing, including the quail. I still can't actually count them, the fear is too great.

Thanks for hosting this hatchalong.

 

[Peep_Show]

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I've got 11 in the 'bator for the NYD hatch. Nice (albeit smallish) eggs....very well-behaved and doing exactly what they're supposed to. (My Marans eggs, however, seem to be a bit slow....movement in the eggs, but an awful lot of egg white still so I'm thinking they're not quite ready for lockdown 'cuz if they pip, they'll drown)

Love, love, love the wheaten coloring on the hens. The five toes take a bit of getting used to, though.

 

[Melissa Rose]

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I have Faverolles, you will love them, they are super sweet! My first pullet just started laying!

I have Salmon Faverolles eggies from Ebay cooking right now, but not for the New Year's hatch. These I set a few days later and are due Jan 7 I think. I had a whole batch (from a different ebay seller) due in December, but none of those developed at all! So I'm hoping for much better luck and/or quality this time.

My official new year's hatch eggs are from my own 2 pens: my pure Cornish roo in one pen with 2 pure cornish girls but of different colors than the roo and 2 grown up Cornish X hens. I got these 5 birds from a nearby woman who did a great job raising them and making them free range for a lot of their food so they didn't grow too fast. I'm not sure what she did when they were young though..probably fed them a lot when tiny, I would assume. Pen 2 is a blue-laced red W roo with a whole bunch of different hens: 1 blue-laced W, 1 blue W, 2 partridge rock, 2 EE, 1 Polish... It will be super fun to see what color the feathers of this lot all turn out to look like and see if I can figure out what hens they came from! um. guess I am counting my chicks before they hatch, aren't I??!!

Ohhh can I be nosey on the seller

. Mine are from an Ebay seller out of Texarkanna and they fedex'd them. Since they were shipped yesterday and I'm getting them this morning I'm hoping

If you don't want to post to this thread you can always PM me

 

[Peep_Show]

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Sounds like we got our eggs from the same place. Mine were shipped FedEx, but in a USPS box. Well-wrapped and none broken. I'm glad she sent 1 doz + 3 because 4 were duds. Still, 11 of 12 bought heading to lockdown is still pretty good.

 

[Peep_Show]

I've got a question that perhaps some more experienced hatchers might answer: What is the longest an egg goes before hatching?

My salmon faverolle eggs look to be right on schedule via candling. But my Marans and my TJ's egg are, errr, ahhhh, developmentally challenged (puh-leeze...that's not in the perjorative sense, so don't get all PC on me) and still seem to be swimming in egg white. There's movement there, though, so they aren't dead, just slow. They're really large eggs, too, that spent a longer time in cold storage than the faverolles. (The joy of trying to coordinate shipped eggs)

The way it looks, I may be taking 3-day old favs out of the bator waiting for the others to pip.....

 

[Melissa Rose]

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Sounds like we got our eggs from the same place. Mine were shipped FedEx, but in a USPS box. Well-wrapped and none broken. I'm glad she sent 1 doz + 3 because 4 were duds. Still, 11 of 12 bought heading to lockdown is still pretty good.

Thank You

 

[LarryPQ]

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If you are SURE of your math, then don't wait past day 25.

I would take your babies out of the bator (ninja-style) before they are 24 hours old, and let the slow hatchers keep going. I know we say, "KEEP YOUR HANDS OUTTA THERE!" but you don't want to starve the new babies to death.

 

[Melissa Rose]

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I had some shipped eggs that I candled on day 5 and would have sworn weren't going to do anything but they were expensive so I left them in for the 10 candle and they did develop

. I didn't stop turning until day 20 and they hatched on day 23 and 24

 

[SkyWarrior]

I missed the flapper contest, but I thought you'd enjoy these picts anyway:

Yes, my EE, Java, is riding Sid the llama. She likes to do that. He doesn't seem to mind.

 

[craz e laid e]

Here is Prince Poppy Cock, my entry for the most colorful roo. . . .