4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch-a-long

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I cannot wait to see how many eggs I can add to my collection today! By the by, how does everyone store their eggs? We have an old travel trailer that has a 'fridge in it, even though it's turned off it stays around 60 something, so perfect for storing eggs! At some point, I plan on converting the old trailer into a brooder house.... ; ) We shall see how that ball rolls!

~ Aspen

 

[mamawolf544]

I cannot wait to see how many eggs I can add to my collection today! By the by, how does everyone store their eggs? We have an old travel trailer that has a 'fridge in it, even though it's turned off it stays around 60 something, so perfect for storing eggs! At some point, I plan on converting the old trailer into a brooder house.... ; ) We shall see how that ball rolls!

~ Aspen

I keep mine in electric egg turners in a very cool room so I dont have to fool with them.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

I keep mine in electric egg turners in a very cool room so I dont have to fool with them.

We do not have heating or cooling in our house, so it's either too cold inside or too hot for the little eggies. We shall see how they do in the 'fridge that isn't turned on. : )

~ Aspen

 

[Shelshanam]

I would be afraid to do turkeys this time of the year, we are in Ohio and it was hard enough to keep them alive in the spring.

Actually I'm set up pretty well for cold weather hatching. And my area is a moderate climate (Southern Oregon). So we do get down to freezing occasionally but not often, more like a frost that is usually gone by 10am. Mostly it seems we just get rain (go figure in Oregon)!

But I hatch inside, have a 1st week brooder that I've made of a plastic storage container and a lamp kit that was suppose to go in a bottle. I let them get good and strong in that brooder and then we move to the garage in which I have a kiddie pool on an insulation pad with a heat lamp and sides to keep drafts out. So far I've not had any looses and I've not stopped hatching since the cold weather hit!

And another person was asking about Turkey egg cost several pages ago after I posted I was excited to start the hatch a long. I ordered from a member here down in the classified section, my eggs are coming from Ohio and total cost was $56 shipped for a dozen Royal Palms.

 

[bnewns]

I would love to hatch out some turkeys, but I'm 100% positive that they would end up missing before long. I have to keep almost everything under lock and key.

 

[MarineCorpFarmr]

Oh id love a few turkey eggs.How much do the eggs sale for.

around $5 a pop. 2 of my turkey hens have started to lay. Nothing fertile yet tho... the toms need to get it in gear

 

[mstricer]

beautiful dogs!

Thank you

Quote: That would be a humane society egg and the other was a breeder egg.

Quote: Me too

Quote: WHAT!!!! Aren't you cold

Quote: Turkeys are still laying in Ohio, I thought turkeys only laid in the spring. I lost a couple turkeys my first year raising them, they were about 4 weeks and I had them outside in a hoop house and didn't think anything about the ground being wet and the got sick and died, lesson learned, this time out of 5 turkeys I manged to get 3 to survive, one of those were invited to Thanksgiving dinner and the others roam the yard.

I would love to hatch out some turkeys, but I'm 100% positive that they would end up missing before long. I have to keep almost everything under lock and key.

My turkey boy sleeps in the tree's, everyone else gets locked up.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

WHAT!!!! Aren't you cold

We have two wood stoves and plenty of Mesquite trees for firewood. : )

~ Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Got two more duck eggs this morning...come'n girls!

~ Aspen

 

[tadpole98]

some of my flock has coryza so I dont know if I want to hatch out their eggs. we will see