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

[FeyRaine]

In case of Zombie apocalypse i would want australorps. They have not even blinked with their egg production this winter. Their only risk factor is they would probably be friendly to zombies too.
I am really excited for your hatch feyraine!

HaHa -- maybe some of the brown eggs from you are Australorp X eggs (is that a possibility?)

In the NYD HAL Bator -- Last night there were 16eggs that I saw movement in, there are 14 more but those were too dark or just didn't happen to be active when I looked.

My vote for most likely to evade Zombies is actually the SFH, they never walk from place to place, they always run in a hip hop zig zag , I think they are practicing ;>

 

[Dish chickens]

psssst... Its gonna hatch...

This is you

I cheering the chick on, never seen a chicken poop eater ......

 

[silly4buttons]

No shell. I can squish em. They are as clear as a silicone bell. Headed to candle to try to find another dud.....yes we are soaking them in vinegar...the air cell looks super cool without that pesky shell

How long you do soak them for?

 

[bamadude]

How long you do soak them for?

i soaked that 1 for about 36 hrs. They were probably done in 3 or 4 hours but i forgot about em. No worries..vinegar will not absorb the membrane

 

[blackgoat]

You will love the Wellsummer!!

I got rid of all my Welsummers but one, and now I wish I had kept one of the others for my OE project. She laid the most interesting eggs, they were light but with dark pores. They had kind of a stone look to them. Not exactly the desirable color in a Welsummer egg; I think they are supposed to be darker. She was a hatchery bird, so I don't know if I'll ever find that egg color again. I hollowed one out before I got rid of her. This is what it looked like. If anyone knows a chicken that lays eggs like this I'd like to know. I think it could make a neat OE. Or I can just get a bunch more hatchery Welsummers and hope I get another one.

 

[silly4buttons]

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i soaked that 1 for about 36 hrs. They were probably done in 3 or 4 hours but i forgot about em. No worries..vinegar will not absorb the membrane[/quote

I am going to try it.

 

[bamadude]

Its gonna be weired to absorb the shells off of the ones that dont hatch at the end of the hal

 

[cree57i]

Since 8 of my pullets and one of the roos are australorps it is a good bet that the lighter brown eggs you got from me are at least 1/2 austalorp. There were welsummers in there too, but they do not get my vote for ZA chicken to survive with. You could even have welsummer/australorp crosses in that group. Now that would be interesting.

 

[GAGE]

Emma and I finished our second candleing and pulled 3 more clears. We are down to 32, with a few questionables, but we do have a bunch that are moving around. We will candle one more time at lock down. Merry Christmas everyone.

 

[blackgoat]

These are the vinegar eggs!

Very Neat! I'm out of vinegar, I wonder if citric acid would work. I'm kind of glad I have a couple of clears, now.