EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[mlm Mike]

For fun.. Cindy and her chicks, they are 7 weeks old now (SLW).

Getting big!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Evening folks. How's things?

Good evening.

The bird on the left is an adolescent Ancona. They get all black with white spots when mature.

I'm rather surprised that link shows so few sultans.... Are they really THAT rare?

They are pretty rare but it relied on breeders and hatcheries to report what they had. I reported and my breed didn't even show up on the list.

what did I do wrong posting it!!! thanks Paddler!
Thanks about the worms! I had seen those, I need to look up superworms too if my internet lets me that is. I think I will have one kid work with crickets and one superworms, or do you think I should have them both involved in both?

Yes, Jaerhons are lovely what is the typical egg size on them if you have it handy uptop?
And good luck with the chicklets! Minihorses eggs hatched last night, I posted them. so my bators need cleaned and I thought I was finished but have marans eggs coming Sat morning local and I think I should try the tolbunts out.

I don't remember what the link was made up of but it directed to BYC rather than ALBC.
I would involve both in both. That way they can see various life cycles of insects and they can check each other's work.
I don't know if I ever weighed them but for the bird size the eggs are pretty big. The birds are between bantam and LF size but I'm guessing the eggs were 50-55 grams.

She is nine. Super excited. She is on day 5 of 70. She can hardly wait to get her chores done so she can put her check on the board.

That's great. Having a board to mark off was a brilliant idea.
I always loved marking off my short timers calendars.

Lets have some color today!


POST your ROOSTERS!!


share some things you like or dislike about them! dont forget the breed too!

Hard to get a lot of color out of black birds. Somewhere I have a picture of a cockerel that was a Jaerhon/Penedesenca cross. I don't think I've ever seen so many different colors in one bird.




A black and a partridge Penedesenca rooster.






A Jaerhon cockerel.



A gold laced black polish cockerel and pullet pair with a white Jersey Giant cockerel.



A Partridge Rock rooster with a mix of hens. A black leghorn, a blue splash Jersey Giant, a Delaware Frizzle, an Ameraucana, a Welsummer and the butt end of an Ancona.


Same mix of birds except the gold laced Wyandotte and the Jaerhon are in clearer view.



An Ancona/ Penedesenca cross cockerel.

Do you have a big Muslim community there?

I was thinking the same thing. We have a large one here as well as a large Jewish community. However, we have plenty of markets to satisfy all ethnic needs.

Don't fret about being vertically challenged. DW can walk under a snake's belly w/o ducking.....well, not quite, but close. Top of her head makes a handy arm rest, though.

Or a place to set your beer.

Not that I know of, but we live next to Mexico, and apparently have a lot of holidays here, that require intact males, too? I don't know. I just know that 2-3x a year, male goats that are intact sell for a lot to eat for religious holidays.

Birria is a popular goat dish in Mexico.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Don't I get a handicap for correcting SKS before I post, or editing same?

no way!!

Do I detect a conspiracy in the making?

NOPE

WHITES HAS TO HIT 20000 thats it thats the number imma stickc to it!! @BantyChooks

 

[kwhites634]

18 days till halloween?

oh I say add 2200 then???

fer whites?

I'll have to contact my Louisiana mentor, the all-time champeen one-word poster

 

[Akrnaf2]

 

My guess is silver spangled hamburg


Eta: wrong comb type tho

All but the comb LOL. 

 
SWEET!!!  is he legbar over a silver spits? 

Maybe or Legbar over Silver Spangled Hamburg?  He hatched from a beautiful blue egg.

sounds about right !! lovely!

 

 

 You are already family, so no adoption needed!


As close as it is , this will be my first time in Greece,.

Awesome!! oh how wonderful, yes I bet you are excited!! when do you leave?

Tomorrow

LOL that comes soon enough for you! ha ha ha  have fun

Thanks, it's all DW work! It landed on me out of the blue!

 

[kwhites634]

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I think you'll be sorry if you don't cover the paper soon. Leaving it exposed all winter means you'll likely have to replace it come spring.

.If I do, I can; I have plenty left out of a new roll. I'm not getting up on that freaking roof; not that far off the ground. I get nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs on a roof that I can't walk; 'specially near the edge. I done come off one roof; don't need an encore.

ugh yer killing me whites dangit I so would help out if I could

I know you would, Hon, and I truly do appreciate that, but it'll get done, eventually. Don't small the sweat stuff.

 

[casportpony]

 
18  days till halloween? 

oh I say add 2200 then???    fer whites?

I'll have to contact my Louisiana mentor, the all-time champeen one-word poster

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Hard to get a lot of color out of black birds. Somewhere I have a picture of a cockerel that was a Jaerhon/Penedesenca cross. I don't think I've ever seen so many different colors in one bird.




A black and a partridge Penedesenca rooster.






A Jaerhon cockerel.



A gold laced black polish cockerel and pullet pair with a white Jersey Giant cockerel.



A Partridge Rock rooster with a mix of hens. A black leghorn, a blue splash Jersey Giant, a Delaware Frizzle, an Ameraucana, a Welsummer and the butt end of an Ancona.


Same mix of birds except the gold laced Wyandotte and the Jaerhon are in clearer view.



An Ancona/ Penedesenca cross cockerel.

Thanks, I will let them each do both.

I had to zoom for this one!!! I love this guy

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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you better!

I know you would, Hon, and I truly do appreciate that, but it'll get done, eventually. Don't small the sweat stuff.

yea I know but still

 

[kwhites634]

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I would if I could, but I can't so I won't

Still not working since the upgrade?
Not a lick!