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

[Cynthia12]

LOVE IT CYNTHIA

haha and I TOTALLY agree with the "duck" chicken noises. ill try to post a vid of my polish to youtube to share here!

That would be great, I've tried to put a video on here of my baby ducks following me around, but it won't work. :/

 

[bantambury]

WELL your going to town! I love them!

 

[Cynthia12]

Thank you, tis fun. Get that video up when you can..would love to hear it..see if they sound like mine..my black sex link is especially funny. Really deep voice.

 

[casportpony]

I'm lovin' all the festive avatars!

-Kathy

 

[draye]

Fingers crossed for all you first time candling for this hatch....ive seen good and bad

But about all tou hatching these trader joe eggs makes me want to do the same. @ronott1 shared the pic of one of his sold pullets and i fell in love with her! PROBLEM IS i dont think my trader joes sells fertile eggs...nor does my whole foods....what do i do?! LOL

Whole Foods used to have fertile eggs. I don't think we have a Trader Joes in Arkansas, but Little Rock does have a Whole Food. I guess I need to get back over there and see if they have fertile eggs anymore.

Oh no!  I have dropped eggs before and it feels awful.  Since you just cracked it and got it sealed back up there is still a chance for it to hatch!  I'm keeping my fingers crossed for it.  


Nice!  Congrats!


  This cracked me up so much and I needed a good laugh this morning.  Thanks!  


Awww.  Sooooo cute!


That's great!  
I've hatched a number of refrigerated eggs now, and they most definitely do not all hatch female.  Last NYD I put in 3 refrigerated EE eggs for the HAL and all three were roos.  The other fridge eggs I've hatched have been a mix of males and females.


So it wasn't just me!!!  For a while there I though I was cursed to only ever hatch roosters!     I'm thinking happy pullet thoughts as hard as I can right now.  

Woot!  Congrats!  That is a big bunch of cuteness.  


It seemed like a good idea to me as well.  I built my cabinet bator (the one I'm hatching in now) with two heat chambers separate from the egg chamber and air is pushed from them up false walls and into the egg chamber.  Seems to be working so far.


Great news!  Hope it has an easy hatch.  





Me too!  I do that every time I set eggs.  I pace and fret and go stir crazy, terrified I'll candle at 7 days and find nothing but empty eggs.  

On the note about rates of hatch male/ female:
I think this year has been my closest to have 50/50 as I've ever had. I'm basing this in only the ones that I've kept. I have no ideal what it was on the ones I've sold. My last hatch was 14, lost one. Out if the thirteen left 7 females and 6 makes. 'Bout as close as you can get to 50/50.

 

[Roan]

LOL I just remembered my old youtube account where I had loaded some vids. Here's one of our geese. It's called "Not cleared for landing" *hint* *hint*

 

[chicken pickin]

Lol funny and too cute. He would throw a fit in real life lol he would be screaming his alarm call. Very festive, thanks.

 

[FuzzyHens]

Wow! All my ducks hatched! Now I have 4 ducks,8 bantams, 3 quail and 1 chick. Now to wait for the HAL.

OMG...so cute!!!

 

[Cynthia12]

 

[Canadianislupus]

Had my first crow off happen today. It was pretty adorable. Marcus is still half the size of Chester and has a much higher pitched/scratchier voice. Hopefully not too many more of the 14 little cockerels start crowing in the next 10 weeks (they are 15 weeks. Chester is 7.5 months). I love the sound but I don't want to annoy anyone with too many cockerels crowing at once

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