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

[BullChick]

I should see veining when I check my duck eggs today. The chicks are looking how I expected them to look. Like they quit! But they are green eggs, so I can't see into them very well. As for movement, I think I see it, but then convince myself that I moved the egg.

 

[Pensmaster]

  I should see veining when I check my duck eggs today. The chicks are looking how I expected them to look. Like they quit! But they are green eggs, so I can't see into them very well. As for movement, I think I see it, but then convince myself that I moved the egg.

I do the same thing or I think the yolk is still moving from getting it out of incubator.

 

[canadachickens]

@ronott1 please do this, and share!

I soooooo gotta make a pair of these for christmas.

 

[canadachickens]

I should see veining when I check my duck eggs today. The chicks are looking how I expected them to look. Like they quit! But they are green eggs, so I can't see into them very well. As for movement, I think I see it, but then convince myself that I moved the egg.

Good luck with the candlng MC! think positive thoughts

 

[Lozuufy]

@ronott1 please do this, and share!

Those look comfortable!

 

[Pensmaster]

@ronott1 please do this, and share!

Now I'm hungry. They would go well with a BBQ

 

[BullChick]

 
  I should see veining when I check my duck eggs today. The chicks are looking how I expected them to look. Like they quit! But they are green eggs, so I can't see into them very well. As for movement, I think I see it, but then convince myself that I moved the egg.

Good luck with the candlng MC! think positive thoughts

Thanks. I am positive! Positive I can't get green or blue eggs to hatch!
I've never added food coloring to my bread, but if I do those loafers, I think I will make them blue.

 

[Math]

I finished my hatch and got 21 chicks for a friend.

I set more eggs on Saturday. It seems that someone is always looking to start or replace their flock so it is good to be able to oblige them.

 

[ronott1]

@ronott1 please do this, and share!

I like the "Loaf"ers--I wonder how much soup I can get in them?

 

[alohachickens]

Candled my eggs yesterday. I'm using a Hovabator Genesis on the New Year's Hatch, though I also have a regular Hovabator with fan, PLUS a Sportsman's which is also full of about 150+ eggs due later in January! I have the capacity to be incubating almost 400 eggs at one time, if I am crazy enough to do so. LOL!

Anyway, of the 42 put in there, 27 are still going. Two blood rings, and the rest were blanks.

I took photos of the breeder pens. These are some of my best Aloha hens put in with Sussex roosters. One rooster is a Cinnamon Sussex cross, the other is a Buff Sussex / Speckled Sussex cross rooster. The boys have huge size and the girls have great spotting, and I'm hoping for spotty babies with improved body type.








Here is a chick from the first batch of babies, that were hatched out of the pen with the white (Cinnamon Sussex) rooster and spotted hens:


Pretty baby - hope it's a rooster!

Dad is the white boy with the gray neck:


Love the look of this boy. He's just totally the wrong color. LOL!

So hoping the New Year brings me a son of his with his size plus MOTTLED color!