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

[Avlana]

Is anyone else hatching a bantam breed?? I love my tiny chickens.   Hoping to find some bantam EEs for my spring hatching. 

I'll be hatching bantam wyandottes. Blue laced reds, silver laced and chocolates. This will be something new for me as I usually hatch and raise large fowl.

 

[chicken pickin]

I'll be hatching bantam wyandottes. Blue laced reds, silver laced and chocolates. This will be something new for me as I usually hatch and raise large fowl.

Oh Chocolates... Im jealous. I want chocolate chickens so bad. Chocolate Orps would be great. Maybe one day when I have more space.

 

[BoereMeisie]

The fridge is a bad idea because of the low humidity--frost free and all that. Away from drafts like air conditioning is best.

I keep them in an egg flat tilted a bit and give them a half turn a couple of times a day. It is best to keep them in a humid place in your house.

Great, thank you

 

[Pozees]

What color Silkies do you raise?

I have one pen covered by a Blue cock bird, he is with 2 Blacks, 1 light and 1 dark Partridge. The other pen is covered by a Black (likely split to Lavender) cock bird, he is with a Splash, Porcelain, and mismarked Partridge - she has the dark head but the rest of her looks more like a buff. The chicks I've hatched from the first pen have been mainly dark Blues and some Splash and Black, and from the second pen I just started hatching, I have 3 that will probably be Splash although they are just a week to 3 weeks old. Right now they look very silvery, have to wait a little while to see how they feather out. The hens in the second pen aren't a year old yet, they hatched in February and only started laying 2 months ago.

 

[Myfourladies]

 

[msladyhawke]

Im hatching silkies with this hatch along. A little nervous to raise silkies in the cold weather we get her in NH but if my tiny Japanese Bantams can survive the winters I can manage silkies too. I love bantams Id like TONS more but DH says they are "worthless" He thinks that because they lay bite size eggs. I like to remind him that the bantams are our best layers. Im getting 3 a day from the 6 of them. While I am only getting 1 LF egg a day from the 18 LF chickens.

This is true for me too! My bantams are laying like crazy, yet the LF are hit or miss. Love my bantams!

 

[ChickenDoodleMI]

Please add me to the hatch along! I will be trying to hatch some Lemon Cuckoo Orpintons, EE and Olive Eggers. Maybe a couple of Polish/Leghorn crosses!

 

[msladyhawke]

Is anyone else hatching a bantam breed?? I love my tiny chickens.

Hoping to find some bantam EEs for my spring hatching.

I am hatching bantam langshans and porcelain d'uccle. Love the bantams!

 

[mstricer]

I'm hatching Mille Fleur dUccles and hopefully Silkied feathered Ameruacana

 

[ronott1]

Please add me to the hatch along! I will be trying to hatch some Lemon Cuckoo Orpintons, EE and Olive Eggers. Maybe a couple of Polish/Leghorn crosses!

To the NYD Hatch a Long!

I have added you to the list! Great choice of breeds to hatch.