3rd Annual NYD Hatch "Designer" Egg Swap Thread

[9Catsz]

It is disappointing when shipped eggs don't hatch. I got 30 eggs from an Ebay ad 15 days ago and the box was partially crushed, smelled like rotten egg, and had a wet spot on one corner. Five broken eggs and the rest with broken air sacs. I put them in the 'bator anyway and a few actually started to develop, but I cannot see an air sac?? Don't know if one can hatch w/o an air sac. A few have blood rings, and the rest with nothing, as I expected. It's looking like I'm not going to get any to hatch out of this scrambled mess. USPS gets a big fat F in this case.

 

[anderson8505]

I tried to figure out who it is I'm sending to, too. I love the mystery. Yesterday one of my own eggs hatched! This was a first time for my own chicken's eggs, and I only incubated one.

It is a BR hen x Appenzellar Spitzhauben roo chick:

 

[9Catsz]

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Awwww where's the LIKE button when you need it.

 

[BHep]

anderson. And it will be barred.

Very cute !

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Very cute! Congratulations!!

 

[anderson8505]

Thanks all. Just found out from Tad on here that my mix of AS roo and BR hen is a sex link... so he's a little cockerel. I'll keep him to see what he looks like all feathered out, I just need a place to put him. But, some lucky gal/guy is going to get some eggs that might turn into chicks like this.

 

[rarely bored]

Hope my hens kick up their laying a notch. I'm down to 3 hens laying, and only one of them is giving 5 a week, the rest are less... which would be ok, if this wasn't baking season! My son (10) tried to make brownies friday night, but thought the 1/4 teaspoon was 1/4 cup of baking powder! Never seen brownies puff up soooo big!

but, sigh, two eggs wasted.

 

[anderson8505]

I continue to make baking and cooking mistakes at 41. I remember using a Pyrex dish over an open flame once. All you can do sometimes is laugh!

 

[Sumatra503]

looks like whoever gets my eggs will be getting a little bit of Silkie in there too. Seems that he is the only roo doing the do.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Just be happy someone is doing the deed. My rooster appears to be all talk and no action... but I can't help giggling every time I see him.