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[chickenmeadow]

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Thank goodness for your spare incubator top. I swore that my last hatch in the 2nd bator would not make it out after a temp spike to 104 for several hours. Well they made it out just fine, except the one egg with the oversized air cell. Soon it will be hapening for you!

 

[CaliBlueChicken]

Hello,
I am sharing my April hatch. It is my first one and also my hens first time too!

Got them in a nice comfy place with thier momma

little cuties! They just hatched today, there are (when I last checked) 3 eggs left to hatch. 6 have hatched

 

[beckymom3]

Awwww!

I love a hen and chicks! I want a broody!

We now have an Australorp!

I left for 2 hrs to get kids from school, and this guy showed up! He came out of an egg I hadn't even noticed had pipped!

Silly, silly, silly.

We have 9 Dorkings still to finish (3 have almost finished zipping and the rest are all pipped or very zipped), 11 Aussies and 23 Brahmas. No Brahmas are out yet, but 2 have huge holes (pip/zips) in them. LOTS of cheeping!

 

[Illia]

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Wait, how come your sig says you have EEs, but your egg is an Ameraucana x Araucana?

Anyway - I'd love to see the little EE when it hatches.

I cannot wait until I start hatching some Araucana x Marans. A different kind of Olive Egger.

 

[thechickonthehill]

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Wait, how come your sig says you have EEs, but your egg is an Ameraucana x Araucana?

Anyway - I'd love to see the little EE when it hatches.

I cannot wait until I start hatching some Araucana x Marans. A different kind of Olive Egger.

The eggs in my incubator aren't from my hens, they are from Julie at Gabbard Farms. I don't have any Ameraucanas . . . yet!

I do have 3 pips now though - all A/A eggs. Evidently they are impatient to get out.

 

[Illia]

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Wait, how come your sig says you have EEs, but your egg is an Ameraucana x Araucana?

Anyway - I'd love to see the little EE when it hatches.

I cannot wait until I start hatching some Araucana x Marans. A different kind of Olive Egger.

The eggs in my incubator aren't from my hens, they are from Julie at Gabbard Farms. I don't have any Ameraucanas . . . yet!

I do have 3 pips now though - all A/A eggs. Evidently they are impatient to get out.

Ah, so then they're just plain EEs. Sorry, but Gabbard Farms sells EEs, not Ameraucana/Araucana crosses. . . There's a difference. They're using the same sales pitch Murray McMurray does.

 

[thechickonthehill]

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The eggs in my incubator aren't from my hens, they are from Julie at Gabbard Farms. I don't have any Ameraucanas . . . yet!

I do have 3 pips now though - all A/A eggs. Evidently they are impatient to get out.

Ah, so then they're just plain EEs. Sorry, but Gabbard Farms sells EEs, not Ameraucana/Araucana crosses. . . There's a difference. They're using the same sales pitch Murray McMurray does.

Oh that doesn't matter to me as I want them strictly for adding some color to my egg basket (assuming some of them are pullets, hopefully). I seem to be pretty good at hatching roos lately. Have you looked at the Gabbard Farms website though? If the birds are not an Ameraucana/Araucana cross they are certainly, ummm, extremely misrepresented, shall we say. This is a direct quote from their hatching eggs page "AMERAUCANA/ARAUCANA (hybrid) : Ameraucana/Araucana have beards, muffs, and a normal tail with a tail head. " That's rather annoying if the eggs are not actually from an Ameraucana/Araucana cross breeding.

 

[carolina chicky]

I have frizzles due to hatch tomorrow

I am so excited....the little mama hen has been patiently sitting and waiting so I hope all goes well....can't wait to see them!!!

 

[Madcap621]

aw-w-w I reeeeeeely want a frizzle!

 

[Illia]

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Ah, so then they're just plain EEs. Sorry, but Gabbard Farms sells EEs, not Ameraucana/Araucana crosses. . . There's a difference. They're using the same sales pitch Murray McMurray does.

Oh that doesn't matter to me as I want them strictly for adding some color to my egg basket (assuming some of them are pullets, hopefully). I seem to be pretty good at hatching roos lately. Have you looked at the Gabbard Farms website though? If the birds are not an Ameraucana/Araucana cross they are certainly, ummm, extremely misrepresented, shall we say. This is a direct quote from their hatching eggs page "AMERAUCANA/ARAUCANA (hybrid) : Ameraucana/Araucana have beards, muffs, and a normal tail with a tail head. " That's rather annoying if the eggs are not actually from an Ameraucana/Araucana cross breeding.

That's my point - False advertising.