B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

[ronott1]

4 more dorking chicks born between today and yesterday from my Red Pyle pair. I am sooo in love with the chipmunk colored ones!

So far I've gotten one in each hatch, the rest of the chicks being yellow at hatch.
A couple shots of 2 of the chicks:

They look very nice!

 

[ki4got]

4 more dorking chicks born between today and yesterday from my Red Pyle pair. I am sooo in love with the chipmunk colored ones!

So far I've gotten one in each hatch, the rest of the chicks being yellow at hatch.
A couple shots of 2 of the chicks:

any updated pics of the chicks you hatched out before? I'm curious to see who colors into what.

 

[poultry007]

I want Red Pyle. Who sells Red Pyle or white?

 

[ki4got]

yellow house farms has the best whites IMO, nobody has much in the way of red pyle. hers came from Craig Russell in PA. I don't know if he has any more tho. I know he's got dorkings in a variety of other colors tho.

 

[pysankigirl]

I love the chipmunk colored ones, too, and yours is adorable!!!!!

Man, I cant wait for spring. I have a self imposed rule after last year of no hatching in the winter, but my resolve is wavering as the winter seems so long.
we had a week long power outage last year where we were running the generator the whole time just to power my little incubator...most expensive chicks ever!!!

 

[ki4got]

well, had a slight 'almost oops'... I had set some eggs, wrote down the lockdown date as the 18th... well yesterday I opened the incubator to take the eggs out and put them in the hatcher, there's 2 mille fleur bantam cochin chicks looking out at me! LOL 6 more eggs that were also due at the same time as well. so they went to the hatcher (3 had pipped already!).

last night had a nice blrw pop out before bed but no other progress on the 2 pipped eggs. this morning I had another blrw and a red dorking running around the hatcher!

first chicks of the year!

the other eggs had quit somewhere along the way, but with the pipped ones I didn't take the time to candle like I normally do...

 

[ronott1]

well, had a slight 'almost oops'... I had set some eggs, wrote down the lockdown date as the 18th... well yesterday I opened the incubator to take the eggs out and put them in the hatcher, there's 2 mille fleur bantam cochin chicks looking out at me! LOL 6 more eggs that were also due at the same time as well. so they went to the hatcher (3 had pipped already!).

last night had a nice blrw pop out before bed but no other progress on the 2 pipped eggs. this morning I had another blrw and a red dorking running around the hatcher!

first chicks of the year!

the other eggs had quit somewhere along the way, but with the pipped ones I didn't take the time to candle like I normally do...

That happens to all of us!

I use this but ignore the temps and humidity - 30% for incubation and 65 to 75 for hatching:

http://homesteadapps.com/app/free/hatchchart/hatchturnscheentry.php

 

[ki4got]

Quote:
the problem wasn't calculating the hatch date, it was remembering the set date. LOL

 

[ronott1]

the problem wasn't calculating the hatch date, it was remembering the set date. LOL

That is why I keep the hatch sheet by my computer. It is very hard to keep track of staggered hatches--I often have three groups incubating at the same time for different people. I print a chart for each one and check the charts daily.

Still I have missed and hatched some on the turner rails. The Ducks were early though....

 

[ki4got]

Quote:
LOL my hatch sheet is an excel spreadsheet ON my computer. but sometimes I get sidetracked and forget to just put them down, then I remember a few days later and can't remember, was that Saturday or sunday I set those eggs?