Colorado

[COChix]

Interesting article about avian flu, it is now is 14 states. Colorado is NOT one of them.

http://www.hpj.com/livestock__gener...3b5-b9c5-502d-85ef-eeb638106aa8.html?mode=jqm

 

[uzisuzuki]

Uzi, when do your eggs go on lockdown?  Looking forward to seeing some pictures!!!

They go on lockdown tomorrow! I'm so nervous because they are going to be so tiny! Which probably should have been obvious to me beforehand considering the parent stock. I can see movement in all 4 & tiny feet in 2 as of yesterday & the air sacs all look like the pictures say they should. I hope I get all 4 to hatch but considering it's my first time doing this I'm not going to hold my breath. I'll still be disappointed if/when that happens, but I'm trying to prepare for it.

The Phoenix eggs should show up today also! They'll go into the incubator as soon as these ones are done. And speaking of, are there any Phoenix bantam breeders here in CO? I had a not great experience with an "expert" on long tailed poultry & am looking for someone closer I can get tips & whatnot from on raising/breeding them (again, if any of the eggs hatch). I'm just looking for someone willing to share what they've learned so that I can have a higher chance of giving any Phoenix chicks I can hatch a good life & making sure my strain is also healthy. The breeder who is sending the eggs has been really great at sharing info with me. It would be nice to find more than 1 source of advice & eggs/chicks to diversify the flock, though.

 

[Double Kindness]

Hopefully everything will be ok with your hatch!!

Chicken and duck math taketh over my brain already!!

I just ordered 10 top show quality cayuga ducklings and the deposit on a pair of adult black east indies ducks from Harolrreed waterfowl

Still looking for Narragansett turkey poults

 

[21hens-incharge]

This is Grandma today. Still mostly white. NOT happy with me either lol.

Grandma from above showing the light buff coming in on the wings.

This is the most developed Polish in the group.

I put an empty roll from TP to show her size. She is the largest also at almost 1/2 inch taller than the little Jennifer.

This is Dawn she had these massive wings when I got her but her body is finally starting to catch up.

This is Sky showing the difference in the wing size. Cute little buggers. My Iowa Blues are rather calm.

Oh and a shot of Cinders just cause she was being pushy.


That is the updated shots of the monsters lol. There are more in the brooder of course but not all are so willing to get a pic taken.

 

[uzisuzuki]

@Double Kindness I can't wait to see pictures of your new birds! I want some duck so much. They are so cute!

@21hens-incharge Your chicks are so adorable! I love seeing everyone's chick photos so much but I think it's making my chicken math turn into chicken calculus!

So, here are what my incubating eggs looked like today (Day 17). Everything one is still moving inside their eggs & I'm hoping that's a good sign because my phoenix eggs arrived today & the breeder gave me 4 extra eggs. I would like a small success before incubating the new eggs so I have some confidence. I don't want to waste them since my family was nice enough to gift them to me. Fingers crossed!

 

[COChix]

@Double Kindness I can't wait to see pictures of your new birds! I want some duck so much. They are so cute!

@21hens-incharge Your chicks are so adorable! I love seeing everyone's chick photos so much but I think it's making my chicken math turn into chicken calculus!
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So, here are what my incubating eggs looked like today (Day 17). Everything one is still moving inside their eggs & I'm hoping that's a good sign because my phoenix eggs arrived today & the breeder gave me 4 extra eggs. I would like a small success before incubating the new eggs so I have some confidence. I don't want to waste them since my family was nice enough to gift them to me. Fingers crossed!

Wow how exciting, I don't remember did you just grab some eggs for hatching for did you check for fertility of each hen first? We are up to 18-20 eggs a day again seems like fertility is about 50-60% based on the eggs I have cracked in last few days. No idea whose eggs are whose and I have two incubators. Trying to hold off a bit longer as it seems as if my cornish might be heading broody again. Today she was sitting on 6 but when I put her off the eggs for snack time and we dug up worms she never did go back to the eggs. So either she isn't very serious or she is just starting. Today she was cackling away at me while I was trying to pick her up.

 

[uzisuzuki]

Wow how exciting, I don't remember did you just grab some eggs for hatching for did you check for fertility of each hen first? We are up to 18-20 eggs a day again seems like fertility is about 50-60% based on the eggs I have cracked in last few days. No idea whose eggs are whose and I have two incubators. Trying to hold off a bit longer as it seems as if my cornish might be heading broody again. Today she was sitting on 6 but when I put her off the eggs for snack time and we dug up worms she never did go back to the eggs. So either she isn't very serious or she is just starting. Today she was cackling away at me while I was trying to pick her up.

I just picked the most recent eggs for each hen & hoped for the best since I hadn't fertility checked in maybe a month before the set date of the eggs. So, I was surprised that 4 of the 7 were fertile! My 1 sorta broody hen is getting more broody, too. She's been trying to hatch the golf ball in the nesting box for the past week, but she's still not sleeping on it. I might try get her to brood some eggs once we get the little coops built just to see if she'll actually do it. I feel like my curiosity is going to end up getting me about a million chickens at this rate. I just keep thinking, "This will never work but I'm gonna do it anyway just to see" & then I end up with actual chicks developing. Crazy!

 

[maggiemo]

Great pictures Uzi. I was scared to death to turn my eggs upside down and just candled with the air sack up.
My eggs with the best veins were the biggest, strongest, first and fastest hatching chicks. All your eggs look great, but what do I know? I have only hatched with an incubator once.
Keep us posted!

 

[uzisuzuki]

Great pictures Uzi. I was scared to death to turn my eggs upside down and just candled with the air sack up. 
My eggs with the best veins were the biggest, strongest, first and fastest hatching chicks. All your eggs look great, but what do I know? I have only hatched with an incubator once.
Keep us posted!

I was afraid to do that too but I couldn't tell if anything was moving inside if in didn't & I was too curious to not try & find out. I appreciate the reassurance since I don't know anything either! You're one hatch ahead of me!

 

[Mtn Margie]

Uzi, good luck on the hatch! I just had my first quail egg breakfast; not much difference except for the cuteness factor.