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

[Cynthia12]

 

[Cynthia12]

Well I wont be winning any hatching contest. I need another rooster I thought this stud was all over the girls but I have 6 clears then again I think she just started to lay. I know when I had 9 ladies he was fine this summer. I lost a few birds and got some new ones I don't think the new ones are bowing down for him. That or he just don't want his junk out in the cold lol.

So far I'm sitting at a 22.87% loss already. the 6 clears and 2 blood rings. Here is a pic of my blood rings I knew there was some talk about them before but this is what mine normaly look like.



On a plus note it looks like all my golden cuckoo marans are going strong so may get to try out sexing them by head spots.

This is a great shot to share.

Come on Marans babies!

 

[MontanaDolphin]

Good mornin'!

 

[Cynthia12]

Hey Mountain, I used to live in VA. Stephen City, then Winchester. I'm talking a loong time ago. But, I still remember the beauty of that state! That's where I got my likens for the chickens! My grandmother had them. It was so much fun as a kid to go and collect those eggs for her.

 

[Blarneyeggs]

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What a wonderful way to start the day! G'Mornin chicken buddies!! VA is for Lovers....right?

 

[Cynthia12]

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Happy Friday to you!

 

[Cynthia12]

Blarney, I may have been young, but I still have beautiful images to remember. And one of the things that I remember is just walking down this dirt road..and gathering the most huge black berries! Oh my goodness, us kids would come home with black in and on our mouths, and our fingers. I remember a guy down the street from us in Stephen city that had a deer in his pasture. It had a bad leg. So no jumping the fence. He just took care of it. Seemed friendly enough, came up to the fence to visit.
Of course the most fond memories..my grandmother cooking in that old kitchen. She could fry up the best fried chicken ever. Breakfast! I can't believe how people used to eat back then, unless folks on farms still eat up a nice big breakfast, and a nice big dinner to boot.

 

[Cynthia12]

I am a fan of this idea myself, maybe he swings over to CO on I-25? I live right off an exit of the highway on the frontage road ...

We have a chicken train here in Utah. That's an idea though, going outside a state nearby! We have one that goes from north to south here..and also from central to SE. Have done some fun chicken swaps, and egg swaps, and chicken buying and egg buying. Get some nice grain from a gal SE of us too. For cheap, but good stuff from their farm.
Chicken train!

 

[ronott1]

Well I wont be winning any hatching contest. I need another rooster I thought this stud was all over the girls but I have 6 clears then again I think she just started to lay. I know when I had 9 ladies he was fine this summer. I lost a few birds and got some new ones I don't think the new ones are bowing down for him. That or he just don't want his junk out in the cold lol.

So far I'm sitting at a 22.87% loss already. the 6 clears and 2 blood rings. Here is a pic of my blood rings I knew there was some talk about them before but this is what mine normaly look like.



On a plus note it looks like all my golden cuckoo marans are going strong so may get to try out sexing them by head spots.

Don't give up on him yet. Fertililty for Roos can be low at this time of the year. Light does not only lower egg laying in Hens.

 

[Gardeningmama]

We should have a contest for best candling photo... because the candling addicts need an excuse.

Ooh I like that idea. I probably won't win because my camera is shot, but I do have a light as bright as the sun!

Well I wont be winning any hatching contest. I need another rooster I thought this stud was all over the girls but I have 6 clears then again I think she just started to lay. I know when I had 9 ladies he was fine this summer. I lost a few birds and got some new ones I don't think the new ones are bowing down for him. That or he just don't want his junk out in the cold lol.

So far I'm sitting at a 22.87% loss already. the 6 clears and 2 blood rings. Here is a pic of my blood rings I knew there was some talk about them before but this is what mine normaly look like.



On a plus note it looks like all my golden cuckoo marans are going strong so may get to try out sexing them by head spots.

Nice pics! I'm so jealous of the Golden Cuckoo Marans

. The roos are just gorgeous!!!

Well you're still above me and my 92% loss. My one rooster has yet to fertilize one egg. I'm setting another batch Saturday so he can hopefully redeem himself. Although I will give him that has/had mites really bad. I gave him a bath a couple days ago and I swear there were hundreds if not thousands of those nasty things. So he got two baths right in a row and then into the basement. Everyday I've been hosing him down in permethrin. Seems like there's a lot less already. This would of had to happen in a matter of about three weeks because I know he didn't have them when I bought him in early November and when I last looked him over I didn't see anything. They were all at the base of his tail and down towards his vent

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Everyone has their ways of dealing with mites, worms, parasites etc. I take the easy way out. Ivermectin Cattle Pour On...a few drops on the back of the neck of each chicken works like Frontline. I had a bad case of mites, and now that I do it routinely, I've never had a problem since. Added bonus, it's a complete wormer too. Drawbacks: it's not tested for poultry, and I do egg withdrawl for 10 days to be safe. Lots of folks swear by it.

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I candled last night, pulled 22 clears, I only have one BBS Orp left, sooooo sad

Oh Blarney

. So sorry. The eggs I have of yours are doing great!! Now, to get them to hatch...they are HEAVY and those shell are hard!

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Wish I had some valuable advice for ya. Gotta agree with the rest..keep that humidity down(doesn't seem like you'll have a problem with that though). Good luck & I'll bet it'll all shake out in the end!

Blarney, I may have been young, but I still have beautiful images to remember. And one of the things that I remember is just walking down this dirt road..and gathering the most huge black berries! Oh my goodness, us kids would come home with black in and on our mouths, and our fingers. I remember a guy down the street from us in Stephen city that had a deer in his pasture. It had a bad leg. So no jumping the fence. He just took care of it. Seemed friendly enough, came up to the fence to visit.
Of course the most fond memories..my grandmother cooking in that old kitchen. She could fry up the best fried chicken ever. Breakfast! I can't believe how people used to eat back then, unless folks on farms still eat up a nice big breakfast, and a nice big dinner to boot.

You just took me down memory lane. I grew up in a teeny tiny town in PA. All roads were dirt roads and we walked anywhere we wanted..neighbors we're friendly back then. On summer nights my Dad would take us to the local overgrown pond with a flashlight, pillow case, and mom's collander from the kitchen. At the edge of the pond Dad would shine that flashlight on a bullfrog, I would throw the collander over it, in the pillow case it would go. We'd fill the pillow case, bring them home fill the bath tub, and let them loose. I'd sit there and play with them for a while, then back to the pond they would go. MY MOM HATED IT!! We'd do almost the same thing on summer days with snakes, but without the collander, MOM REALLY HATED THAT! Simpler times...