3rd Annual NYD Hatch "Designer" Egg Swap Thread

[9Catsz]

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Yep, pets just like snakes can be pets. It's really great for people who are allergic to animals with fur or feathers because they can have a pet too. I vend at reptile shows and there's always 1 or 2 vendors who sell nothing but insects...mostly tarantulas, but there are also mantids, millipedes, centipedes, stick insects, and roaches....YEP I wrote that! People buy and sell roaches mainly to feed to other reptiles, but the giant hissers are quite cool.

As for hatching, I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think they need an incubator.

Oh and kids really

them.

 

[Sumatra503]

Yep, they are the coolest and easiest of pets to care for!

They are incubated in moistened sand at room temperature, so no incubator needed.

The ones I am getting are Indian, Romulus tai, and leaf insects. The indian and tai are the long green stick looking ones you would see in most of the U.S.

 

[rarely bored]

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yeah, all I can say is, the pullets will be great layers.

They will be quite the contrast to your adorable silkies.
My up and coming roo is turning into a real nice splash orpington... but he is only 12 weeks old, and the hens still chase him around. Hoping to hatch his babies for the easter hatch.

Stick insects! Cool idea. Almost as simple as a pet rock - and just as cuddley

 

[9Catsz]

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yeah, all I can say is, the pullets will be great layers.

They will be quite the contrast to your adorable silkies.
My up and coming roo is turning into a real nice splash orpington... but he is only 12 weeks old, and the hens still chase him around. Hoping to hatch his babies for the easter hatch.

Twenty-one days cannot get here soon enough! I have buff orpingtons, originally for their eggs, but they've become sweet pets and I love them to pieces. Gonna get a roo for them next year after I've built a 3rd pen so I can house the silkies and BOs separate. Right now they all run together, but I only have silkie roos w/them and am only hatching silkies.

 

[Pidgey104]

Got my eggs the other day love the 2 dark speckled color eggs. not sure what breed or crosses LOL.

Hope my partner got their eggs. Not sure on what they got though. They came from spydertoys


Who is Rachael Wolfe?

 

[mrheinz77]

The dark eggs are from my Welsummer pullet. Possible dads could be:
Welsummer
BCM
Black Ameraucana
Naked Neck
Blue Jersey Giant
Splash Silkie
RIR
Silkie Cross with HUGE rose comb
Splash Cochin
Blue Wheaten Bantam
Crosses

There were 2 Iowa Blue Eggs (Pure)
There were some for a chance of feather shanked Naked Necks
There were some I have no idea who laid them.

My first Welsummer cross hatched. It is a blue chick. (As a note, a friend that shows her chickens and she said I really need to show my Wellies, especially the one that is laying. If it is pure, you should have a nice bird as my cockerel's main fault is his legs are a little light.) Good Luck

 

[rarely bored]

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yeah, all I can say is, the pullets will be great layers.

They will be quite the contrast to your adorable silkies.
My up and coming roo is turning into a real nice splash orpington... but he is only 12 weeks old, and the hens still chase him around. Hoping to hatch his babies for the easter hatch.

Twenty-one days cannot get here soon enough! I have buff orpingtons, originally for their eggs, but they've become sweet pets and I love them to pieces. Gonna get a roo for them next year after I've built a 3rd pen so I can house the silkies and BOs separate. Right now they all run together, but I only have silkie roos w/them and am only hatching silkies.

Twenty days now!

I'd expect the Charles eggs to give you nice pet/layers, assuming they are pullets.

The two Charles babies I have running around will come up to me and not act surprised when I pick them up. One of them was carried around in a local parade and all the little children (with sticky candycane fingers

) wanted to pet the chicken. Hopefully, someday I'll have a nice flock of purebred somethings... but with our economy the way it is, and how few eggs hatch when they are shipped, it may be a while.

It would be fun if I got a nice little flock of Easter Eggers from this hatch.

That would be an awesome little suprise.

 

[BHep]

Candled today at day 8, here are my results.

Greyeyes.... of the 7 ( I think you sent 9, but 2 were cracked) I pulled 1 egg. The big white Josie egg.

The rest are right on track.

KariMW.....you sent 12. I pulled eggs # 1,2,3,& 4. The IBs.

The 2 darkest eggs stayed because I can not tell for sure ( but look like something is going on in there

)and the rest are right on track.

Thank you both for the great packaging job.

 

[rarely bored]

BHep, I just candled 'your' eggs. Of the 7 which survived the crazy ride here, I only had one clear today!

So I have: the wellsomer x bw am (what is a bw am?)
the wheaten maran x EE (gulp NN?) I will sooooo laugh it is a cute little naked neck. Most likely my husband will fall in love with it...
an olive egg, which btw sure isn't easy to see through!
a DE x EE (DE = delaware?)
EE
and lastly the EExEE

so excited!

 

[BHep]

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The Welsummer X AM. The AM= Ameraucana. The rooster is actually a very handsome Splash AM.
There is a good chance on the NN

I have seen Wheatie ( I know... so original LOL) hanging with Tennessee, the NN.

DE...

your guess is as good as mine.

What color egg ?? I do not have Delawares. If the egg is green then it is OE....I just can't spell or something.

Here are a few pics....

Little Boy Blue...the splash AM:

Dandy....EE rooster:

EE chicks:

Tennessee....