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

[Nuclear Chickens]

I see 14 that look VERY familiar, LOL!!!

Yes! They are. I grouped yours together to make it easier to identify the ones with the codes on them. I even put them in the incubator where it tends to hold the right temp better. lol

 

[msladyhawke]

Yes! They are. I grouped yours together to make it easier to identify the ones with the codes on them. I even put them in the incubator where it tends to hold the right temp better. lol

I am as egg-cited as you for them to hatch honestly!

 

[acemario]

7 eggs. 2 oe 2 fbcm 3 ee mixes

Pic won't upload. Workin on it

 

[Aphrael]

Make my official count 28 instead of 27. My EE decided to gift me with another egg this afternoon,so I went ahead and put it in the bator since it wasn't long after I set the others. So I have 13 Lav Orp, 12 SFH and 3 RIR/EE.

 

[Penny Hen]

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..

The last set of keets I had I bonded to my sheep. They would follow them all around and pick the seeds and straw out of their fleeces. In the winter they would roost on their backs to keep their feet warm. I was at the next door neighbors and they alarmed me to the fact that 5 dogs had slipped in the field and were chasing the sheep. In the wild guineas bond with elephants, keep them free of insect parasites and the elephants keep them from being eaten by lions. If your are free ranging the guineas it keeps them alive longer to bond them with a grazing animal. Sheep and goats don't faze big predators and hawks and eagles but foxes, possoms and raccoons don't like to approach them.

I bonded them by setting up their grow out pen inside the sheep pen. I had one ewe so fascinated by them she would hang at the fence with her head down breathing her warm breath on them. Prior to putting them in the grow out pen I drew sheep faces on paper plates and hung them on their cage.

Guineas can cross breed with chickens for an infertile offspring. They can be a bit brainless. They will pace back and forth at a fence for an hour or more forgetting that they can fly over it until the dog rushes at them and makes them fly. They will chase each other playing what looks like tag. The females are the real noisy ones. If you have a flock of just males they tend only to sound off over real disturbances not just because you parked your car in a different place than usual.

 

[roostercluck]

Here are my dozen eggs set this morning at 5. I can't wait to here the peeping!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

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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..

The last set of keets I had I bonded to my sheep. They would follow them all around and pick the seeds and straw out of their fleeces. In the winter they would roost on their backs to keep their feet warm. I was at the next door neighbors and they alarmed me to the fact that 5 dogs had slipped in the field and were chasing the sheep. In the wild guineas bond with elephants, keep them free of insect parasites and the elephants keep them from being eaten by lions. If your are free ranging the guineas it keeps them alive longer to bond them with a grazing animal. Sheep and goats don't faze big predators  and hawks and eagles but foxes, possoms and raccoons don't like to approach them.

I bonded them by setting up their grow out pen inside the sheep pen. I had one ewe so fascinated by them she would hang at the fence with her head down breathing her warm breath on them. Prior to putting them in the grow out pen I drew sheep faces on paper plates and hung them on their cage.

Guineas can cross breed with chickens for an infertile offspring. They can be a bit brainless. They will pace back and forth at a fence for an hour or more forgetting that they can fly over it until the dog rushes at them and makes them fly. They will chase each other playing what looks like tag. The females are the real noisy ones. If you have a flock of just males they tend only to sound off over real disturbances not just because you parked your car in a different place than usual.

This is such great info, making me reconsider Guineas....they would go well in my goat pen.

 

[Threedog]

A.D.I. all warmed up and loaded with a dozen fresh eggs!!!

 

[Nonyah Biz]

sorry for late pic post my net was down its been -20 so my count is "6"here they are banty cochin roo/amerracauna hens (yeah i know but first time having chickens this year and first time hatching)

 

[Cynthia12]

Not sure who this one belongs to..but I love her!!


SO....checked my eggs 24 hrs. later, and I'm seeing a lot of bullseyes!