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

[jbenson]

AND i have to say those eggs are GORGEOUS! I agree with @Peep_Show LOL i beed to sit in santas lap with you!

Speaking of EGGS...

Pretty sure my girly malt laid her first egg today! (My lady hands are huge but her egg is really that small LOL) OMG SO HAPPY! she was hatched on independence day. Her brother milkshake was hatched on new years last year...not sure if you all remember him...

And heres malt (below)

What breed is Milkshake? He looks very much like a cockrel I hatched last spring.

 

[Kaylish]

Ok folks...finally got all of my eggs in the bator. Birchen sea turtles, sizzle x duck billed platypus (f2), heritage show quality american alligator, and my project quail x bald eagle olive eggers.

What no Ostrich/Emu crosses?

gators got the emus

I will have brahma x ostrich in the spring

Comes from a very brave and flighty brahma cockbird

Snapping water chickens

You guys Crack me up!

Okay people remember, at midnight on 1/1/15 we have to all be in front of our incubators or broodies and at the stroke of midnight we have to scream "HAPPY NEW YEAR" as long as we can. That way we can scare the chicks right out of their eggs! Don't worry, they'll love you for it.

:lol

But all the late comers are messing up my perfectly calculated guess!

Right?!

The shipped eggs were packed terribly! Paper egg cartons, not bubble wrap on the eggs. the cartons were wrapped in large bubble wrap and the foam nugget spacers. One egg was smashed and oozed onto two others. Packed correctly, this shipment would have made it perfectly. The yolk looked good though.

Blue australorp eggs so I really want them!

I hope they hatch for you.

New contest announcement! [COLOR=800000] Random Post contest #I
Prize: 1 dozen Mystery eggs donated by[/COLOR] @michaelf

Open to hatch a long members except Hatch a long administrators. A post number has been selected. The first hatch a long member to post on or after the number is the winner! A backup post number has been selected to be awarded if the winner declines the prize.

The eggs donated are awesome too!

@michaelf Has an NPIP certified flock too!

Thanks!

Great prize! Thank you @michaelf

It sure is tough sitting on your hands and waiting for candling day! I've been reading up on chicken embryo development cause I want to follow along with them even though I can't touch them or see inside yet. I learned that their itty-bitty barely formed hearts start beating around the 42 hour mark. So most of our incubators should be full of wee little heart beats by now!! Soo cute even if I can't hear them . I wonder if you could hear it with a stethoscope? That would be so cool!

Neat idea

The bigger chick in my avatar is my Olive Egger, and she has a teeny crest, so I'm going to go from there. I only hatched two olive eggers out the 9 eggs I got ( and the other one was a male). So, right now I only have her to start with. I'm thinking of breeding a Polish hen to a blue egg layer, hopefully Araucana, (I absolutely adore the Araucana, but I've had so much trouble finding eggs right now). Hopefully, that will produce a crested chicken that lays a light blue egg. Then breed that one back to a dark egg layer. I have some Cuckoo Marans, but I don't really like the cuckoo color. I just sold my Welsummers, but now I wish I hadn't, as I just found out that a partridge bred to a blue would produce sex-linked chicks. I think I want to get some other color of Marans, maybe Black Copper or Birchen. Then pair the offspring of that second breeding, which should be an OE, to my wee-crested OE. I want to eventually get a Crested OE that will 'breed true', so to speak. I've been looking up information about OEs, and I'm still not sure if OE to OE is more or less likely to lay an olive colored egg. I've been trying to find a picture of the mystical "Avocado" egg, but my attempts have been fruitless (pardon the lame pun XD) . I might toss in an Isbar, too. The Marans/Isbar (Marbars) OE eggs I've seen are amazing. I want not only an Olive egg, but a particular appearance as well. I need to study chicken genetics to make a definite plan. It may not work, or it may take several attempts to get the look I want, but, heck, I have lots of time, and I thought it might be a fun project. I just decided to do this a few months ago, so don't have a plan set-in-stone and any advice or suggestions are welcome and helpful. Sorry, that was a whole lot of explaining when basically the answer is, "not sure yet". lol!

I just hatched a cross with crests and fluffy feet that *should* give me green eggs. Bantam Cochin over Crested Cream Legbar.

They are 5 weeks old

 

[FuzzyHens]

Someone wondered...here is a wheeping/seeping egg..those yellow sticky dots are egg yolk. Yucky. Shuck it!

oh wow...okay, thanks for the photo. that is not what I was expecting. I'll watch for that!

 

[Amberjem]

I did the same thing...no luck on the store bought eggs, but I did manage to see the air cell on a 3'ish week old egg from a local dozen that I bought. So, I've seen it in one egg now. I'm gonna try the store bought again tomorrow as I had already put them away when I got the older one out. But it was smaller than I thought and I really had to move the light around until it popped out. Once it popped out, it was fairly obvious. (I hope that makes sense)

 

[Amberjem]

You guys Crack me up!

:lol
Right?!

I hope they hatch for you.
Great prize! Thank you @michaelf
Neat idea
I just hatched a cross with crests and fluffy feet that *should* give me green eggs. Bantam Cochin over Crested Cream Legbar. They are 5 weeks old

soooo cute!!!!

 

[Roan]

Hey, will there be a "First Pip of the New Year" or "First Hatch of the New Year" contest?

 

[ronott1]

Hey, will there be a "First Pip of the New Year" or "First Hatch of the New Year" contest?

Not usually....but....hold on....A lot of new contests will be announced soon!

 

[Amberjem]

Not usually....but....hold on....A lot of new contests will be announced soon!

 

[Book]

The chicks will be moving then. They internally pip a bit later but close to day 18.

Can you hear chirping yet?

There is some chirping! So excited and freaked too as I thought I had till Monday to set up their brooder! LOL This is such a busy weekend!

 

[Amberjem]

There is some chirping! So excited and freaked too as I thought I had till Monday to set up their brooder! LOL This is such a busy weekend!

lol it seems like ppl are never exactly ready to house their chicks or chickens when they need it and it's a scramble to get it done