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

[bamadude]

I can get at least 20 per day.

 

[cree57i]

Im in Mt Juliet, TN. and getting about a dozen eggs daily if you want a BYM. Ive got an incubator but have been intimidated to try to use it. Just read every post in this thread and I may be about to get brave. Anyway, ive got fertile eggs if any middle tn peeps need some.

 

[bamadude]

Im in Mt Juliet, TN. and getting about a dozen eggs daily if you want a BYM. Ive got an incubator but have been intimidated to try to use it. Just read every post in this thread and I may be about to get brave. Anyway, ive got fertile eggs if any middle tn peeps need some.

jw12 is wanting eggs in tn.

 

[FeyRaine]

Do it and divorce

Well, he did put a metal roof on the chicken run _before_ this current cold snap for me, so guess I'll have to keep him.

LOL you sound like me. I know I shouldn't hatch eggs as last year I went way overboard with the amount I was hatching. It was a little crazy. I promised DH I wouldn't hatch until the Easter Hatch-a-long. But of course following along with you all and reading what everyone has planned and all this talk about eggs has me with a little less will power than I before this thread started lol.

I shouldn't hatch eggs, I shouldn't hatch eggs, I shouldn't hatch eggs... Ill keep telling myself that. DH definitely will not be happy if I start hatching this soon again

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Yes, I haven't hatched or even been on BYC for several months, got the NYDH email reminder & peeked into the thread knowing full well everyone here would be firmly on the side of SET THE EGGS !!! (Hi Ron, so glad to see you back again this year, lovely first page info to get things going this year too!)

I'm in east TN and my hens are still laying like crazy, but lol I have no roo so it does no good for the hatch along

Figures, I have 4 very well feed lovely looking extra cockerals that were scheduled to be my winter laying pullets (plus 3 Roos I actually want). If you or anyone needs a great looking well behaved mutt boy chicken asap to make hatching eggs for NYDH just pm me, I got spares ready willing & able ; / (They are basically mutts F3 EE mixed w/ Orp, or Marran, or SFH all I hatched here from green eggs and heading to freezer camp sooner or later so I can keep just the 3 SFH Roos over the flock).

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Question -- I have a few hens who finished their molt ages ago & really I think should have started again but are holding out for spring, I've never done the add light trick, but my current coop is in extension cord range of the house. Anyone have first hand experience to know, if I did add light now (a) would it work in time for eggs to set Dec 11 & (b) would I be committed to extra light all winter or could I just do it to get some eggs now then stop w/o hurting the flock?

 

[bamadude]

Lol. Im pretty sure our fearless leader has christmas lights inside his coop

 

[LAChick]

I would love to try this year. It would be fun!! We have had rain for weeks now, overcast with little sun. Not getting allot of eggs, might get 3 or 4, hopefully. If anyone in northern california would like to sell some I am game. Dream list is EE, Naked Necks, Marans, Hamburgs. Thank you

 

[ronott1]

Lol. Im pretty sure our fearless leader has christmas lights inside his coop

I do! it is quite festive out there.


They are on a timer. I am still waiting for the Partridge Penedesencas to start laying again...

 

[ronott1]

Well, he did put a metal roof on the chicken run _before_ this current cold snap for me, so guess I'll have to keep him.

Yes, I haven't hatched or even been on BYC for several months, got the NYDH email reminder & peeked into the thread knowing full well everyone here would be firmly on the side of SET THE EGGS !!! (Hi Ron, so glad to see you back again this year, lovely first page info to get things going this year too!)

Figures, I have 4 very well feed lovely looking extra cockerals that were scheduled to be my winter laying pullets (plus 3 Roos I actually want). If you or anyone needs a great looking well behaved mutt boy chicken asap to make hatching eggs for NYDH just pm me, I got spares ready willing & able ; / (They are basically mutts F3 EE mixed w/ Orp, or Marran, or SFH all I hatched here from green eggs and heading to freezer camp sooner or later so I can keep just the 3 SFH Roos over the flock).

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Question -- I have a few hens who finished their molt ages ago & really I think should have started again but are holding out for spring, I've never done the add light trick, but my current coop is in extension cord range of the house. Anyone have first hand experience to know, if I did add light now (a) would it work in time for eggs to set Dec 11 & (b) would I be committed to extra light all winter or could I just do it to get some eggs now then stop w/o hurting the flock?

Thanks and welcome!

Lights start working in a week or so.

Nutrena sells a feather fixer that helps hens get over molting and start laying eggs sooner.

You can also try giving them some red pepper flakes. Mix a couple of table spoons into their feed each day.

 

[bamadude]

My brahmas could eat a whole string of christmas lights....and rudolph

 

[FeyRaine]

Thanks and welcome!

Lights start working in a week or so.

Nutrena sells a feather fixer that helps hens get over molting and start laying eggs sooner.

You can also try giving them some red pepper flakes. Mix a couple of table spoons into their feed each day.

Oh they have looked fully decked out in shinny new feathers for weeks & weeks, & the Roos have taken notice, 3 even have reddened combs so either the crap weather has them stalled, or they are laying & farm dog is eating eggs (but not the 1 daily blue pullet egg) or they are laying someplace hidden (bad girls). But since they are rejecting the Roos, I think they are thinking they can wait til spring. I gave them extra oyster shells last week, but I'd forgotten the old pepper trick, spicy feed on the menue at the coop tomorrow, if that doesn't work then I might have to invest in some solar garden lights or a strand of outdoor festive lights & a timer... I think when the DH has bought 2 x 5 dozen eggs in a month I can justify the need for more chickens, so either my own eggs or maybe some local (BYM or whatever I can find). Also, I'm contacting ppl I gave chickens to this yr, to see if any of them can fix me back up w/ some hatching eggs...