4th Annual BYC NYD Hatch / December online hatching egg swap

[TMNfarm]

I really want to know who I got mine from... Only two hatched, and 1 died overnight. She was the one with the bug belly... Mushy chick

. But Ihave one pretty little one that looks like she will be white. My envelope said New Hampshire White roo over RIR hen. I hope its a she! Can you feather sex those breeds??

 

[SilkieSensation]

I really want to know who I got mine from... Only two hatched, and 1 died overnight. She was the one with the bug belly... Mushy chick

. But Ihave one pretty little one that looks like she will be white. My envelope said New Hampshire White roo over RIR hen. I hope its a she! Can you feather sex those breeds??

Thinking that makes sex-links, but I could be wrong. Maybe it's the roo that has to be red to get sex-links.

Tanryn, still waiting on pix of those quail & OEGB

I got 2 quail out of the 10 eggs from this swap, none out of my 4 & none out of the 29 chicken eggs from 4 different sources, including some of my own. I had a power outage that lasted overnight about a week & a half in & moved the bator an hour & a half away to my new house about 2 weeks in with no heat at the new house for 3 days after. Didn't have very good luck with this batch or the ones that were due the week of Christmas. All 4 of the babies hatched from the 50+ eggs set for the week of Christmas died within 48 hours of hatch. A Scovie & a quail perished during the move, the 2nd quail died shortly after & the chick that was due on the 23rd finally hatched on the 26th or 27th while I was gone overnight & died the next day from leg problems.

I really hope the current batch do better. So far the majority of them look pretty good. I have 4/9 shipped Serama & 4/8 shipped mixed bantams developing & all but 3-4 of mine developing. 9/9 quail are developing as well (from my eggs). I have a staggered hatch set starting the 8th going through the 20th or so and will be setting another 36 or so Monday from a local Amish farm that has a mixed flock of Rainbow layers (EE, OE, Cuckoo Marans & production layers all running together).

 

[SilkieSensation]

Also, I didn't see a link for this swap for January. Does anyone know if there is going to be one this month

 

[mrheinz77]

I just posted the January Swap in the Chickenstock section

 

[Tamrync]

Silkie Sensations,
Here are the pictures of the OEGB and Quail. These were taken right after they were moved to the brooder. Do you need updated pictures? Sorry about that, I thought I posted them but I was having picture issues with this website last week and I bet i gave up!

 

[pnp4kidz]

My final count on the little shipped eggs... not sure who sent them... screen name... sorry.
they had a note saying Barred Rocks, and two 'project'...
the barred rocks three hatched! they are doing great...
both projects hatched too, quite late tho, and so they were a bit egg shaped... one did great, one has spraddle, and I"m treating but he/she has a big round soft belly, and appears to be weak on the right side... so, I doubt this one will make it but I have two teen girls and a sister here, and we all go in and care for the chicks... we will do our best! syringe feeding going well, and baby walks for a while, but when he/she gets on the right side he/she can't get back up... no bueno.
thanks!

 

[SilkieSensation]

Silkie Sensations,
Here are the pictures of the OEGB and Quail. These were taken right after they were moved to the brooder. Do you need updated pictures? Sorry about that, I thought I posted them but I was having picture issues with this website last week and I bet i gave up!

Do you remember which of the OEGB hatched...BBR-BB Red, BR-Brown Red, SDW-Silver Duckwing, OEX-Mixed color pen

 

[Tamrync]

Do you remember which of the OEGB hatched...BBR-BB Red, BR-Brown Red, SDW-Silver Duckwing, OEX-Mixed color pen

The 2 that made it the eggs only said OEGB, I had a couple after candleing I tossed that said BB and BR. I don't remember any OEX or SDW. The 2 look the exact same, no color differences yet that I can tell. Want me to take some better pictures of them?

 

[SilkieSensation]

Probably the mixed pen then. Was Quail roo over 2 Red Pyle, 1 Wheaten & 1 Ginger hen. If they were from the same hen we should be able to tell male from female by now.

 

[Tamrync]

Probably the mixed pen then. Was Quail roo over 2 Red Pyle, 1 Wheaten & 1 Ginger hen. If they were from the same hen we should be able to tell male from female by now

Here is picture of the new home built for them. I tried hard to decorate it for them, they could care less!

All 6 of them look the exact same so far, all around the same size too. 1 is a touch smaller. A neighbor stopped by and said I had all girls, I asked him how he knew, he said males have white markings on the cheeks. If that's true then they are all girls.
They love to dust bath, wow, they are a totally different color now, smoke grey from the D.E. in the dust bath.