6th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2015 Hatch-A-Long

[bamadude]

Nope

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Remind me again about the egg storage. I know keep cool and tilt every so often. But more details please. Last year I was told tilting was not important.
Links to prior posts are fine as I tend to skip posts when the thread moves rapidly. Please tag or quote me though since I do have this skipping habit. I'm sure someone will come up with a fee for skipping soon.

 

[bamadude]

$15 fine for skipping

 

[carcar80]

I like this LOL.

My roosters sometimes get up a bit too early . Not always though most mornings about 6am. I cant hear them much from inside the house.

On the other hand my goat is in heat and boy oh boy a goat in heat is something else. The sound of a "dying" goat shrilling through the air is VERY LOUD early in the AM. Im sure neighbors LOVE it

A goat in heat. Hmmmm yes that sound miserable! LOL

 

[SallyinIndiana]

My littlest goat is in an early heat today she is not even 6 months old. The real noise right now is coming from my buck because I pulled the girls out of the large pen. I prefer that my little goat not be bred till at least early summer. Looks like I'll have a loud buck every 3 weeks now.

 

[bamadude]

Candle all the goats too

 

[Peep_Show]

I will attest that the flashlight recommended by Bama is da bomb, although I haven't tried it on caskets yet (and not gonna)

Of the farmers markets eggs set I pulled 9 as being totally clear (eggtopsy confirmed this), 1 Ameraucana/RIR egg is questionable and so will be left to percolate a little more, a dozen EE eggs are too dark and thick to see veins but the yolks are plenty dark, and one RIR egg has a little guy in there bobbing about and waving. It was sad to chuck the Andalusian eggs as I really wanted the blue birds. However, I have a bunch of BLRW and blue Marans that were set on Saturday that I'm looking forward to seeing who's onboard with their later candling.

 

[Peep_Show]

Speaking of candling....

Ron, how are the TJ eggs?

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Candle all the goats too

If it was that easy. I think there is a blood test and I know an Ultra Sound could confirm it. I'm using the wait and see approach for my 2 does I want to have kids. I mark their frisky days down and wait 20-22 days. If they are frisky again in 20-22 days I know the first frisky days produced nothing for me other than a bit of entertainment as my does run faster than my buck. My buck does catch them but they make him work and work for it.

 

[chickiebaby1]

Oh My gosh. This thread moves at lightning speed. There is no way I can keep up. Well maybe after tomorrow when I take my first semester nursing school finals. Well today was day 7 for me and I just candled!

Out of 8 eggs, ALL 8 have great veining!!!!

I have 4 black/black bantam cochin and 4 silver/gold laced wyandotts, so I am really excited to see what I get. I just had 2 black/black bantam cochins hatch Sunday and this is what I got. Somehow it has white and almost looks mottled. I guess we will see as it grows, it's still the cutest, tiniest little thing. I can't wait to hopefully have 4 more at new years. I also have a few in the bator for a Christmas hatch next week that are doing great.