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

[casportpony]

Today is the first day that day light hours will start going up in the Northern hemisphere so one of my Pita Pinta pullets decided to celebrate by laying her first egg!

The first egg is from an OE hen, an EE x Marans. The second is from an Arkansas Blue and the littlest on the right is from the Pita Pinta pullet.

Nice eggs!

-Kathy

 

[MisfitMarie]

Today is the first day that day light hours will start going up in the Northern hemisphere so one of my Pita Pinta pullets decided to celebrate by laying her first egg!

The first egg is from an OE hen, an EE x Marans. The second is from an Arkansas Blue and the littlest on the right is from the Pita Pinta pullet.

Those eggs are BEAUTIFUL! Congrats on the shortest day of the year! How exciting! I can't wait until my Olive Eggers start laying!

I bet the fresh eggs taste AWESOME!

 

[Kaylish]

Me too! I need more chicken people in my life. I don't really know anyone else that has chickens. Whenever I say anything about chickens, their eyes just glaze over. LOL. At least I can talk chickens on BYC.

X2! My only friend who likes chickens doesn't have any so even when we talk chicken it's not the same. And No One beats the level of Enabling that you find with BYC peeps! you all

I've been looking up chicken things for three years in anticipation of getting them LoL now that I got them my friends are starting to send me chicken craze stuff LOL

Awesome Friends!

Today is the first day that day light hours will start going up in the Northern hemisphere so one of my Pita Pinta pullets decided to celebrate by laying her first egg! The first egg is from an OE hen, an EE x Marans. The second is from an Arkansas Blue and the littlest on the right is from the Pita Pinta pullet.

What wonderful timing!

 

[MrsBrooke]

Today is the first day that day light hours will start going up in the Northern hemisphere so one of my Pita Pinta pullets decided to celebrate by laying her first egg!

The first egg is from an OE hen, an EE x Marans. The second is from an Arkansas Blue and the littlest on the right is from the Pita Pinta pullet.

Yeeeeaaaaahhhhh!!!!

Congrats!

MrsB

 

[ccnbuck]

Thanks! I'm really tempted. I have some reservations about letting my little hen hatch chicks (my australorps) that are going to get so big so quickly in the middle of winter. The last australorp chicks she hatched were almost bigger than her by the time they were about 6 weeks old. She does have a companion (an older non-laying hen) to help keep the chicks warm though. They always raise chicks together. That little old hen just loves chicks even if she can't hatch her own any more. Maybe some silkies and ameraucanas would be a little easier for the moms this time of year.. This is why I initially took the risk of letting her sit on her own eggs (with questionable fertility) instead of just giving her the large breed eggs that I knew had good fertility...

Only the LA roo is large. The LA hen is not a bantam but she is on the small size. She is actually just a bit bigger than my silkie. Heck, her eggs are about the same size as the silkie eggs.

I don't think you would have to worry about them outgrowing your broody. I love my girls and I think it would be cool to share them through their bitties.

 

[1kluckychik]

Just realized (someone) failed to plug in the auto turner. We set on the 12th, and candled once.

 

[chickiebaby1]

Congrats on a successful candling!!! Please post photos of your bantam cochins as they grow. I have 8 bantam cochin (blue and splash) eggs in my 'bator for the NYD hatch. I so hope I end up with some cuties like yours! Where did you get your eggs from?

I have a black bantum cochin rooster and a black bantum cochin hen that are both just over a year old. They are both solid black, so the mottled color has me thrown. I don't know much about color genetics, but I figured if you put a black with a black, you would get black. I have 3 more that hatched just today and they are the same mottled color. Go figure, they are still soooo cute. I have 2 mottled roos, maybe I can make a paring later.

 

[Amberjem]

White to yellow. below 3000kelvin is better. Higher kelvin gets into blue and it does not pass through the shell as well.

Look for led light that is not blue for candling.

good to know I thought the red spectrium would wash out the viening I went to walmart to get the Ozark flashlight they were out we had a electric outage last week guess ppl bought them out I did get a smaller version works ok

 

[Amberjem]

Just realized (someone) failed to plug in the auto turner. We set on the 12th, and candled once.

 

[StarMeKritten]

Only the LA roo is large. The LA hen is not a bantam but she is on the small size. She is actually just a bit bigger than my silkie. Heck, her eggs are about the same size as the silkie eggs.

I don't think you would have to worry about them outgrowing your broody. I love my girls and I think it would be cool to share them through their bitties.

I hatched some "ameraucanas" (pure breed but mixed colors, so technically Easter eggers) and australorps together last year. The lorps grew so much faster! My BA rooster is enormous. His daughter is only 4 months old now and already towers over all of my full grown EEs...

So, what's the better option? Should I give my broody some golf balls and swap them with a couple day old chicks later? Or would it be better to try to give her already developing eggs?