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

[ronott1]

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

thanks!

Welcome! I have added you to the members list.

Silikes!

 

[BullChick]

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

thanks!

WE GOT ANOTHER ONE! WE GOT ANOTHER ONE! OUR EVIL PLAN IS WORKING! WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

so I went out to the coop hoping to find an extra dark olive egg and a first laid WCBP/brahma egg. on the trail to the coop, I see blood on the snow. I checked everyone's feet. nobody has a foot problem. so I go to the coop to get the eggs I expected. one hen who lays dark olive was hopping off nest, Oh goody she laid her egg, but she didn't I looked where I saw the WCBP setting she was not in nest, no egg. so I was going to leave the chicken pen, but I wanted to cover the blood, so hens would not peck at it, and as I was putting snow on top I found this egg:
It was not cold but was laying in the snow, dirty and bloody. I took it in and paper toweled dry, then a little damp on some spots. took the pic, and in the incubator.

 

[ronott1]

so I went out to the coop hoping to find an extra dark olive egg and a first laid WCBP/brahma egg. on the trail to the coop, I see blood on the snow. I checked everyone's feet. nobody has a foot problem. so I go to the coop to get the eggs I expected. one hen who lays dark olive was hopping off nest, Oh goody she laid her egg, but she didn't I looked where I saw the WCBP setting she was not in nest, no egg. so I was going to leave the chicken pen, but I wanted to cover the blood, so hens would not peck at it, and as I was putting snow on top I found this egg:
It was not cold but was laying in the snow, dirty and bloody. I took it in and paper toweled dry, then a little damp on some spots. took the pic, and in the incubator.

The egg looks fine!

Did you candle to check for cracks?

 

[gimmie birdies]

it candled fine.

 

[howfunkyisurchicken]

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)

 

[ronott1]

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)

Welcome!

I have added you to the members list.

 

[ronott1]

it candled fine.

I thought it would but you never know.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I meant to candle, I forgot though.

 

[the jolly onion]

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.