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

[kara1015]

7 eggs set from my own flock!

2 FBCM
2 Leghorn
3 EE
all covered by Ameraucana Roos.

 

[KimberlyK0509]

*************** instead of ordering something online to put in your nest box for egg laying, go to the store and get the liner for dish racks. My nest boxes are literally the boxes you dry dishes in and then the mat that goes at the bottom. *********************************************

 

[kara1015]

Did you get EEs from her? I got EE eggs from her last year for a Christmas hatch. There was such a variety of colored chicks. Here are the chicks I hatched from her last year.

Did you end up keeping any of those babies @chicken pickin?

 

[ShayBaby]

I was exactly one hour late (1pm) setting these guys, but I got an emergency call from school while I was preparing them and had to run pick up my DS. (Everything's ok now.)
15 bantam eggs. 2 lemon barred Cochin, a black Rosecomb, 2 silver penciled Rocks, and the rest I think various colors of OEGB. Not expecting many to hatch, but it'll be fun to follow along.
Picture proof: (3 wouldn't fit in my little impromptu turner, so I left out the ones I felt most wouldn't make it ((floaters)).)

I chose to use my homemade styrobator with wonky humidity levels over my Brinsea Mini Eco with perfect temp and humidity because I've vowed never to use it again. It's killed and deformed way too many chicks..

 

[Aphrael]

I hate myself SO much right now... Our heat is out (gas company has some kind of problem and whole town has no gas right now). So here I am trying to get my eggs all set to go into the bator while my fingers are frozen and I dropped one. It smashed to bits on the floor.

 

[itsbob]

Quote: Quail mature at 6 weeks of age and begin laying soon after. Quail eggs are more nutritional than chicken eggs but it takes 5 of them to equal a chicken egg. The birds are also raised for meat.

OPPS.. I messed up.. the bosslady just informed me we don't have a quail egg connection, but a guinea connection... ANY input for those.. other than they are noisy? I do notice them a lot sharing runs with chickens..

 

[itsbob]

I will share that I would REALLY like to find some fertile Maran Eggs.. I have EE's two current layers, plus a young roo with 7 young hens, but REALLY like the idea of those dark chocolate eggs..

 

[chicken pickin]

Can you take the extra rails out of the turner and set an egg carton in their place for the shipped eggs? That way you can have 1 rail turning for your own eggs and the shipped eggs resting for the first week. Once the "no turn" period is up you can replace the rails and put the shipped eggs in there and won't have to worry about turning any of them.

Oh very smart thinking!!!

 

[itsbob]

Quote:
I think that's the first negative I've heard about the Brinsea Incubators.. I just picked up the Brinsea Mini ADV because of all the positive feedback I've seen..

 

[mstricer]

They beat chickens up I heard. Are to dumb to go in a coop. They make great yard alerts