California - Northern

[zooweemama]

Still air incubators work for hatching.

Do you think one of those "little" blah blah bators would work for a hatcher? You know that cheap cheap one?

 

[ronott1]

Do you think one of those "little" blah blah bators would work for a hatcher? You know that cheap cheap one?

Yes, they should work fine. The temperature can go as low as 97.5 degrees at lockdown. It is better for lower temperatures at hatch.

I hatch in one of the Genesis incubators and incubate in the Brinsea.

 

[lizanne]

I sold a couple of my chickens last week, so now I can get some new ones. I'm looking to get something fun, that lays a different color egg than the ones I already have. Any suggestions?

These are mine.

 

[zooweemama]

I sold a couple of my chickens last week, so now I can get some new ones. I'm looking to get something fun, that lays a different color egg than the ones I already have. Any suggestions?

These are mine.

Ameracauna (real ones not the fake ones they sell at hatcheries)- they lay blue eggs. OR a Cream Legbar (also blue eggs).

 

[mendocinosunris]

Is that bulge on it's neck it's crop? I've had some chicks that ate a whole bunch, and their crop looked a little naked. I don't know about the rest of it's patchiness though....

Good guess, but no - definitely not its crop.

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OK - thanks for the feedback on the bubble. I guess as long as the chick's fine, I won't worry about it.

Well, it's definitely not being picked on. It's with a fierce little Araucana broody, and - trust me - NO ONE picks on her chicks!
That fraying gene does sound kinda like what's happening here. I'll watch & see what it grows in to.
Worst case scenario, it'll either be a good broody or a good bbq.

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HAH!!! And our parents said video games were a waste of time...

 

[zooweemama]

Yes, they should work fine. The temperature can go as low as 97.5 degrees at lockdown. It is better for lower temperatures at hatch.

I hatch in one of the Genesis incubators and incubate in the Brinsea.

Awesome I think I will buy one of those little cheaper ones for hatching. This will save me a lot of opening and closing!

 

[mendocinosunris]

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Good suggestions - or if you want to add dark eggs, try welsummers or marans - they have dark brown eggs. The welsummer eggs are speckled, I think...

 

[debs_flock]

I sold a couple of my chickens last week, so now I can get some new ones. I'm looking to get something fun, that lays a different color egg than the ones I already have. Any suggestions?

These are mine.

I agree, you need a true blue egg................legbars, ameraucana or araucana (not the feedstore/hatchery variety, which are EE). You need a DARK brown egg, marans, penedesenca, emporadenesa (once again, don't go hatchery), a nice khaki olive egger. Then if you want to add ducks, my call ducks lay a pale blue egg, Cayuga lay gray/black egg. Hmmmm, lots of choices.

And I have nothing against feedstore/hatchery birds, I have some in my egg flock, but they won't lay the true color you are looking for.

But you need to turn those eggs over, always store pointy end down. The aircell is in the round/big end. Very important on hatching eggs and even with eating eggs. If you enter a competition where eggs are judged for eating quality, your entry will get tossed if the eggs are upside down.

 

[debs_flock]

Yes welsummer.................hadn't thought of that one, lovely speckling on many of them.

 

[mendocinosunris]

Had to pass this one along. It's from cheezburger.com