BYC's 16th Annual New Year's Day Hatch-Along—2025

[muddy75]

Less than a week left…..

 

[gimmie birdies]

Mine are on day 15.

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I feel like the numbers of people hatching for this are less and less every year lol

 

[Slothinc]

I’m rooting for #46 Noggy!

Noggy is yours

 

[muddy75]

I feel like the numbers of people hatching for this are less and less every year lol

Yes this seems to be an “off” year for the most part. I’m really surprised there’s not more peeps hatching.

 

[halefamily_flock]

I’m testing out a couple new incubators with eggs from this flock. I have 27 brown, blue & white eggs due to hatch on Thu Jan 2

 

[Slothinc]

I’m testing out a couple new incubators with eggs from this flock. I have 27 brown, blue & white eggs due to hatch on Thu Jan 2
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Yay!!! So glad to have another in the hatch along!! Oh my goodness, what type are the two hens in the front left with the crests and the black speckled tummies???? They are soooooo cute!!

 

[halefamily_flock]

Yay!!! So glad to have another in the hatch along!! Oh my goodness, what type are the two hens in the front left with the crests and the black speckled tummies???? They are soooooo cute!!

They are Spitzhauben crosses. I've been working to create Spitz-crosses that lay blue eggs (from Cream Legbar), with a little bigger comb so they handle heat better, keeping the beautiful Spitz crest & gold spangling. The girl just to the right in the front row is a new breed I introduced this year to increase comb size a bit and bring in some genetic diversity. She's a Sicilian Buttercup. I think the cross is going to have really pretty feathering! Hoping there might be at least one in this hatch. In the spring I'll hatch more intentional breeding groups...for now, I just grabbed some pretty eggs without knowing who they came from.

 

[Slothinc]

They are Spitzhauben crosses. I've been working to create Spitz-crosses that lay blue eggs (from Cream Legbar), with a little bigger comb so they handle heat better, keeping the beautiful Spitz crest & gold spangling. The girl just to the right in the front row is a new breed I introduced this year to increase comb size a bit and bring in some genetic diversity. She's a Sicilian Buttercup. I think the cross is going to have really pretty feathering! Hoping there might be at least one in this hatch. In the spring I'll hatch more intentional breeding groups...for now, I just grabbed some pretty eggs without knowing who they came from.

They are just soooo cute! Love that project! Please show us what you get out of your hatch All your birds are gorgeous!

 

[halefamily_flock]

There are 6 white eggs in the incubator. I'm hoping at least a couple came from my Sicilian Buttercup hens. Here's what they looked like as chicks.

Here is what the Spitzes look like as chicks. This will be my first time *hopefully* seeing a cross between the Spitz and Buttercup.