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

[darkbluespace]

Me

Me too!!! i also posted a couple wanted ads

Awesome... what are you hoping to hatch?

 

[blackgoat]

danger more craiglist egg ads!

uh oh! I wasn't going to check my local CL until March, but....


oh why oh why did I check ? frizzled serama, russian orloffs, and Golden Cuckoo marans, oh my!

 

[blackgoat]

Sometimes the best thing to do is to leave the house during hatch. It is the best way to keep from from messing with the eggs sometimes.

the first time I hatched, I saw the first pip, then stayed up all night to watch. Then finally went to bed at 6am, and when I woke up several hours later, the chick was there! Sneaky!

 

[chickkrakidd]

I have several different breeds, such as cochin, silkie, wyandotte, white leg horns and black sex-links. My cochin is not laying right now but I did get several eggs out of her before she stopped and my silkie only lays about every other day so I hold on to those, but for right now I am focusing on the sex links and wyandotts. I want to have some good started pullets by spring when people really start to look for chickens. I am probably also going to be listing them on Craigs list, I'm hoping sex-links will sell good seeing as how you know if you are getting pullets or roos. I got 7 pullets and 3 roos out of my last hatch so I was pretty happy with that. For this hatch a long I have the last 4 eggs my cochin layed and 3 wyandott eggs I'm hoping do good. Getting ready to go candle and lock down now. I also set some more silkie and wyandott eggs for 1/15 hatch and I'm setting 2 dozen more sex links tomorrow.

What breeds r the black sex-links? It's a red roo on a barred hen, right? And the black chicks r the pullets/females, correct?

 

[DevilsDenHen]

Awesome... what are you hoping to hatch?

I would love some batam cochin or even some colored eggs (blues and greens ) and have already told hubby i want chocolate eggs for valentines day lol. Chocolate orps of coarse lol Id really like to try some turkey eggs this spring too!
Its hubbys fault he enabled me with this for christmas lol

 

[blackgoat]

I would love some batam cochin or even some colored eggs (blues and greens

) and have already told hubby i want chocolate eggs for valentines day lol. Chocolate orps of coarse lol Id really like to try some turkey eggs this spring too!
Its hubbys fault he enabled me with this for christmas lol

Aw, what a great guy! also, chocolate eggs for valentines day!

I was going to hold off until Easter, but now I want some marans' eggs for Vday!

 

[darkbluespace]

uh oh! I wasn't going to check my local CL until March, but....


oh why oh why did I check ? frizzled serama, russian orloffs, and Golden Cuckoo marans, oh my!

oh, the possibilities!!

 

[ronott1]

What breeds r the black sex-links? It's a red roo on a barred hen, right? And the black chicks r the pullets/females, correct?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information

Red Rooster with silver hen makes a red sexlink. They will have a dark chipmonk pattern for the pullets and a faded pattern for cockerels.

BBS rooster with barred hens make black sex links.

Check the first post in the thread above for more information and examples of breeds that work.

Edited to add: a red rooster x barred hen will make a black sexlink too so RIRs can be used to make both red and black sexlinks.

 

[darkbluespace]

I would love some batam cochin or even some colored eggs (blues and greens

) and have already told hubby i want chocolate eggs for valentines day lol. Chocolate orps of coarse lol Id really like to try some turkey eggs this spring too!
Its hubbys fault he enabled me with this for christmas lol

nice bator

 

[FuzzyHens]

I would love some batam cochin or even some colored eggs (blues and greens

) and have already told hubby i want chocolate eggs for valentines day lol. Chocolate orps of coarse lol Id really like to try some turkey eggs this spring too!
Its hubbys fault he enabled me with this for christmas lol

very nice!! I like the thought of chocolate eggs for Christmas.