Connecticut!

[momma-hen]

Blue/Black/Spash Ameraucanas. I just lost my roo to some critter, gotta hatch while the eggs are still fertile.

The d'uccles are gorgeous, but if I had every breed that caught my eye, I'd be in the poor house !!

 

[chicken boy sam]

How many are you hatching?

 

[tomdeggeater]

28 days to hatch, right? So they would be hatching around mid-March, the 10th.
St Pattie's Day is a week later on the 17th.
Easter's the first Sunday in April... I bet kids would love to adopt a few.
Not the best idea though. Unless their savvy to chickens not liking to be manhandled...
Then about 5 months until they start laying, right? August or September.
Yup, good time to start the inkybater.
Tom

 

[momma-hen]

I'm setting whatever the girls give me over a 3 day period....probably only 6-8 since they are molting (what a cold time to do that!)
21 days to hatch, give or take. It's an old incubator in an old drafty house, so we make allowances

 

[Chickenoverload]

hey im down in new london county! i never knew there were so many chickens owners in CT!

 

[PurpleChicken]

Tons of us!!!

 

[tomdeggeater]

We are in all kinds of neighborhoods and have to keep it quiet to avoid the ! Chicken Police !
Except for us roosters, who get out to make noise occassionally, when the old hens/biddies let us!
Tom

 

[Henrietta23]

Quote:
I smell Chickenstock 2010 in the making! Quick, someone order DRY weather for this year!!

 

[tomdeggeater]

I shall have to check and see what the Old Farmer's Almanac says,,, Be right back

 

[tomdeggeater]

http://www.almanac.com/weather/longrange/CT/Hartford

Kristin, Here's a link to the pre-eminent forcast by the Old Farmer's Almanac.

They are usually correct within 3-5 days, I've found.

Tom ;<D