7th Annual BYC New Year's Day 2016 Hatch-A-Long

[ronott1]

Count me in! Ill have SFH eggs from my own lovely ladies, and am awaiting a shipment of salmon faverolle eggs any day. So excited.

Welcome!

I have added you to the members list.

Make sure the SFH are friendly with the faverolles.

 

[the jolly onion]

Thanks for the welcome! Ill definitely be keeping a close watch on them (just praying they hatch!)

 

[KYTinpusher]

Make sure the SFH are friendly with the faverolles.

Why wouldn't they be?

I know my SFH can be tough on new additions to the established flock, but I have never had a problem raising them with other breeds.

 

[Cynthia12]

I'd love to try! I'll be hopefully hatching silkie eggs, from my own flock, in an incubator.

thanks!

 

[ronott1]

Why wouldn't they be?

I know my SFH can be tough on new additions to the established flock, but I have never had a problem raising them with other breeds.

favorelles have a tendency to be push overs. I have seen the get beaten up by other breeds.

 

[Cynthia12]

I'm in! Though I may be a contender in the worst hatch rate contest. This will be a fertility check. Everyone was separated into their breeding pens a couple of months ago, then they started molting. I've been getting 2 eggs a day for a couple of weeks now

I'll be hatching Silkies and Sizzles (hopefully)

This is one of my frizzles that I hatched for the Halloween Hatch A Long. Taken a few weeks ago. Getting the top frizzies now.

 

[Ravynscroft]

I do not think so. Not that many Ducks due to egg laying in the winter.

Never an Emu either....

Sweet... I get to have a first of something, lol...

I don't understand. Ducks are just as good as laying as chickens. And I was honestly going to hatch emu. Not that I would have kept them long. But I thought about it. I have someone that would love the meat.

Not Call ducks... they are very much seasonal layers... and is rare for them to be laying this late...

 

[Cynthia12]

Count me in! Ill have SFH eggs from my own lovely ladies, and am awaiting a shipment of salmon faverolle eggs any day. So excited.

Here is a photo of my Bantam Favorelle, she was a sweetheart! Great mom!

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

This is one of my frizzles that I hatched for the Halloween Hatch A Long. Taken a few weeks ago. Getting the top frizzies now.

So cute! Here are some of mine:
Frizzled Sizzle...

Smooth Sizzle...


Frilkies (frizzled Silkies)...


Regular Silkie...

 

[KYTinpusher]

Quote: From my experience, SFH are quite sweet, but are sticklers for pecking order in an established flock. Once everyone knows their place, they all do fine.