5th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2014 Hatch-A-Long

[Cynthia12]

. I got another eggs from my olive egger today!!! Oops that one fell int the incubator also

Now that's a beauty. Still waiting on my blue Olive Egger..I keep saying any day now. I know they usually take longer than the norm of 5/6 months..but not always! Come on girl! I want one just like the one pictured in this photo!

 

[Cynthia12]

Who knew?

 

[knightie]

hope its not to late, I forgot to post here. I set eggs on the 11th. Four Amerucana's under two broody Silkie girls
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Edited to correct broody breed

 

[chickydee64]

What fun

 

[chickydee64]

I'm not sure, but thats a great idea!

Any excuse for a party.................

.I'm in for the fourth of July......................

 

[jeynu1]

Thank you

 

[Blarneyeggs]

There is no such thing as goat proof fence...lol I tie my little monsters out on dog chains every day and lock them in 6 ft high chainlink with a tarp roof at night.

So far my goat fence seems goat proof(knock on wood). We built a wood fence first using Oak wood posts and cemented each post a foot under ground then stapled cattle fence to the inside of the wood fence. The fence is 4ft tall and they cant get over they also jump against the fence often and the fence doesn't budge. We put the fence up 7 months ago with no issues...yet.

This is such a nice set up! We had ours in an electric netting fence powered by first a solar charger, then we jumped to a 100 mile serious 'jolt' charger and yet, they kept escaping... Now we have the 4 foot no climb fence, it's doing the job, I'm quite pleased.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

So the stuck egg was an ordeal sprinkled w/ chaos

There must have been some oozing super glue in the lower part totally not visible
AND it just so happened that _this_ egg was exactly the same curvature as the egg turner,

So I tried the warm water & just move the next door egg but the result as you maybe have guessed was a cracked in half egg,
w/ egg running everywhere onto the turner, down into the tray which apparently was not 100% level. 

So the saving grace is I have 2 LG bators so as soon as I could get some wads of tissue around the mess I ran
(remembered to close door to keep cats & dogs out)
grabbed the dirty but not THAT dirty bottom of the other LG, ran back across the house,
put the other 48 eggs into the bottom of the other LG, (so much for not moving the shipped eggs too much)
put the hot lid over that, & took the egg covered turner/screen/bottom to the shower for a hose off.
Then I still had 50% of the egg cup part w/ egg shell stuck to it!

I took the turner to the kitchen sink & tried to get the egg shell off w/ a copper choreboy scrubbie, wouldn't do a thing.
I finally spent 15 mins (truely!) picking it out a tiny chip at a time w/ the tip of a paring knife, wow, they should have used egg ooze to hold the space shuttle tiles in place!!
The plastic of that cup is actually a little dinged up from digging the eggshell off w/ the knife. 

I got it all dry again.( By the way during all this I fielded 4calls from DH re:shopping list, 2 calls from other ppl, AND made dinner)

I put the eggs back into the re-cleaned bottom/screan/turner. I did a flashlight candle as I moved them since I had to handle them anyway.
Still looks like about 8 good ones, a few maybe way slow starts ? , a few likely blood rings, a few clears a few too dark to tell.

So I did the logical thing, I stacked the smallest of the maybe eggs on the other eggs, to make room along the open space between the turner & wall,
where I formerly had a row of eggs filling things up, and

Into that now open space I placed 8 of my own eggs I collected the past few days!!
So those are now w/ the Late Hatch Gang -- 4 large brown (CL roo Prince), and 4 green pullet (CL roo Good King Henry)

Egg #39 is not more, long live the newly set eggs #51-59!

Oh MY! and got dinner made? You're amazing!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

hope its not to late, I forgot to post here. I set eggs on the 11th. Four Amerucana's under two broody Willie girls
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I believe it's never too late.

 

[Chase Family]

. I got another eggs from my olive egger today!!! Oops that one fell int the incubator also

I would really like to get a few girls that lay wonderful olive colored eggs like yours.