Chat Thread for the New Crazy 24 hour Auction

[Phage]

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I always put them in an egg carton and hatch them upright.

It prevents the hatched chicks playing football with the yet to hatch eggs.

 

[orumpoultry]

Shipped eggs I usually use cut up egg cartons, so they can still get out.

 

[pickitfarm]

I have been hatching chicks in cartons ever since last year. It works out well for me. The hatched chicks still walk all over the unhatched eggs even laying on top of them. Sometimes I think their chirps help encourage the hatching. My last batch of eggs from Bama1 were my best....13 out of 14 on the 21st day. All are doing very well and as you can see making a mess and this was just the beginning.

 

[ladycat]

Speaking of SBELs (I'm bringing the conversation over here from the Just In Time Hatching Egg AUCTION and BIN Thread)

Look at this ebay auction: http://www.ebay.com/itm/331484597183?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

They don't say what the "blue egg rooster" is, but looks like it must be a rumpless araucana.

 

[misfitmorgan]

interesting, the entire reason i got EEs were for blue eggs for market so and i have 2 white leghoen girls so if i get a Roo i am going to try to make some SBELs.

 

[ShadyGroveFarm1]

SBEL's?

 

[ladycat]

SBEL's?

When you cross a white egg chicken with a blue egg chicken, you get offspring that lay sky blue eggs - Super Blue Egg Layer.

 

[Amberjem]

I like using the egg carton to hatch em with.. One chick hatched and fell right into the empty egg next to it and had to get out of that egg then.. I was amused watching...seemed like murphys law ..get out of one egg only to fall into another head first

 

[bantambury]

When you cross a white egg chicken with a blue egg chicken, you get offspring that lay sky blue eggs - Super Blue Egg Layer.

so I crossed a crème egg chicken with one of my OE girls and 2 of the girls lay light blue. is this considered SBEL?


the pic doesn't do the color much...and sometimes they look a bit more greenish than others
and yes, I got a frozen egg yesterday

 

[FVRM]

so I crossed a crème egg chicken with one of my OE girls and 2 of the girls lay light blue. is this considered SBEL?


the pic doesn't do the color much...and sometimes they look a bit more greenish than others
and yes, I got a frozen egg yesterday

Not really. A SBEL is a cross between an easter egger or any chicken that lays blue/green eggs to a commercial/hatchery leghorn. the leghorn puts the "super" in super blue egg layer (SBEL)