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

[KYTinpusher]

From blue, green, cream, tan and dark brown eggs.

Very adorable!

@Cynthia12 needs to give a course in teaching chicks picture etiquette.

Mine could sure use it.

 

[LocalYokel]

I have no choice... no comp, so phone is it or no BYC...

 

[Pensmaster]

The sign is beyond awesome!!

I agree I'm going to get a banner made up and put it on my coop roof if neighbors give me too much grief.
It faces their bedroom

 

[jbenson]

My hatch is over. Had 6 bantam white faced black spanish and 2 bantam blue polish out of 34 eggs set. Lost 2 of the white faced black spanish due to incomplete closing of the navel. One of the blue polish may or may not make it. It almost didn't manage to hatch itself. I promised myself this year I wasn't going to help any hatch, but I would do what I could to keep them alive if they managed to hatch themselves. I did well, which means I lost one that shrink wrapped that I could have helped, but chose not to. I just didn't want to deal with the loss of the ones I helped like happened last year. I think most of the issue was that I had a temp spike just after my candling at day 14 and I didn't catch it until the next morning.

So here they are. So cute and fluffy. And since this hatch was so bad, my hubby says I can hatch another round!

 

[LocalYokel]

I have only just started raising Muscovy, but I am hooked. I know the eggs take over a month to hatch, 35 days I think. They also come is a variety of colors, but are most common in varying patterns of black and white. I personally have two black/white and one chocolate (not the eating kind, lol). For be quieter than mallard derived duck breeds they are quite outspoken, their hissing is almost comical. I bought half grown birds for my first bunch so I haven't hatched any eggs as of yet, but their are tons of websites. Here is one I found.

http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/dennis_p_smith/

I see those ducks everywhere over here at the parks......
at least I think.
I've always thought they were hideous, poor looking creatures

 

[Lozuufy]

Very adorable!

@Cynthia12 needs to give a course in teaching chicks picture etiquette.

Mine could sure use it.

LOL mine could too! When I take pics I either get fuzzy pics of their butts or extreme close-ups when they try to eat the camera

 

[shahtir101]

Another chick hatched!

 

[Lozuufy]

Another chick hatched!

 

[LocalYokel]

Another chick hatched!

What color is it?

 

[Pensmaster]

I see those ducks everywhere over here at the parks......
at least I think.
I've always thought they were hideous, poor looking creatures

There're so ugly they are cute. I've been thinking about them as well. Just don't have area for them.