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

[chickwhispers]

So many cute chicks!!! No wonder it's called chicken math!!! Can't wait for EHAL!

 

[StarMeKritten]

My broody hen had eggs due to hatch on NYD for the hatch along but the day 10 candling showed that none were fertile. I swapped them for a few fertile eggs from my main flock and 4/5 are doing great. She should have chicks by Monday.

 

[ronott1]

My broody hen had eggs due to hatch on NYD for the hatch along but the day 10 candling showed that none were fertile. I swapped them for a few fertile eggs from my main flock and 4/5 are doing great. She should have chicks by Monday.

Post pictures!

 

[jbenson]

DH is really feeding my chicken addiction this year. He encouraged me to hatch for NYD and then to buy a second bator to hatch more to sell since the interest was high in the first batch. Then he said he wanted to get like 20 bantam dark cornish chicks and raise a round or two of those this year to have our own chicken in the deep freeze (we like bantam birds and being just the two of us, the smaller ones should be just fine for meat and they are easier to pretend we don't have so many if anyone asks cause the coop can be a bit smaller). And now he has encouraged me to order a few other chicks to have more varieties that we could breed next year. He even helped pick out the breeds and colors. So, in addition to the cornish, we will be getting some bantam barred cochin, bantam white faced black spanish and some bantam white crested black polish! Which means some of my current mixed flock, which are getting on 2-3 years old) will be sold to make room before the littles need to move into the grow out pen which currently has adult chickens in it for winter. Holy chicken math!

 

[ronott1]

DH is really feeding my chicken addiction this year. He encouraged me to hatch for NYD and then to buy a second bator to hatch more to sell since the interest was high in the first batch. Then he said he wanted to get like 20 bantam dark cornish chicks and raise a round or two of those this year to have our own chicken in the deep freeze (we like bantam birds and being just the two of us, the smaller ones should be just fine for meat and they are easier to pretend we don't have so many if anyone asks cause the coop can be a bit smaller). And now he has encouraged me to order a few other chicks to have more varieties that we could breed next year. He even helped pick out the breeds and colors. So, in addition to the cornish, we will be getting some bantam barred cochin, bantam white faced black spanish and some bantam white crested black polish! Which means some of my current mixed flock, which are getting on 2-3 years old) will be sold to make room before the littles need to move into the grow out pen which currently has adult chickens in it for winter. Holy chicken math!

That is great!

Does he help take care of them too?

 

[MrsBrooke]

That is great!

Does he help take care of them too?

No kidding!!!!

MrsB

 

[blackgoat]

I finally got some pics of the lavender Marans. Their feathers are very pretty, a silvery grey.

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[ronott1]

I got done pics of the lavender Marans. Their feathers are very pretty.



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They look like they have Angel wings!

 

[jbenson]

I've got hatching fever! But I am also doing real math on space and holy crap, I really hope the next two rounds of d'Uccles sell as fast as the first or I will be in big doo-doo when the dark cornish and friends get here cause I will be short on brooder space. Weather has gone sub zero here, so I think I'm going to take a break from hatching in Feb and do a batch of mixed up Easter Eggers for EHAL (those sold well last year, but they are more for the casual backyard chicken keeper where the d'Uccles end up going to people whose kids do 4H or those who have a farm where they have space for a bunch since I tend to sell them in multiples of 10). The mixed up EEs are so super cute and because they are mixed I sell them a bit cheaper so they sell well to the city crowd, though they sell a bit slower than the d'Uccles cause they usually go in batches of 5 or less at a time, I might do 2 rounds at the same time and fill both incubators

- don't tell my DH we are about to be drowned by chicken math! (It's partially his fault, he encouraged me to get some new fun birds for the black sex link project I wanted to try and the cornies are all his fault).

 

[chicken pickin]

I finally got some pics of the lavender Marans. Their feathers are very pretty, a silvery grey.





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They are such a lovely color, who wouldn't love these little lavender chicks