First Time Incubating! SO EXCITED!!

[StephensonC]

Here they are! Gonna be moving to a bigger brooder today. The one in the back corner, standing in the food, is a fiesty little thing. Charges at and pecks my hand everytime I reach in there. Curious to see if he turns out to be a rooster. Lol

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Here they are! Gonna be moving to a bigger brooder today. The one in the back corner, standing in the food, is a fiesty little thing. Charges at and pecks my hand everytime I reach in there. Curious to see if he turns out to be a rooster. Lol

Adorable! He looks like he was scolded and sent to the corner...lol

 

[StephensonC]

As it turns out, he is a rooster! Very pretty red with white tail feathers. I'm not sure about the others yet, but he is getting his roosterish qualities very quickly. His wattles are huge already.

And, what do you know? All this hanging out in the "Incubating & Hatching" thread, I had another 2 hatch 2 weeks ago, and I just put 36 more eggs in the incubator on Saturday. 7 of them are Lavender Ameraucana from a breeder here on BYC. I'm very excited about those. They are very hard to find around my neck of the woods.

AmyLynn your Easter hatch is coming up and will be here before you know it. I know you're excited about that.

Have you found any Showgirl eggs yet?

 

[AmyLynn2374]

As it turns out, he is a rooster! Very pretty red with white tail feathers. I'm not sure about the others yet, but he is getting his roosterish qualities very quickly. His wattles are huge already.

And, what do you know? All this hanging out in the "Incubating & Hatching" thread, I had another 2 hatch 2 weeks ago, and I just put 36 more eggs in the incubator on Saturday. 7 of them are Lavender Ameraucana from a breeder here on BYC. I'm very excited about those. They are very hard to find around my neck of the woods.

AmyLynn your Easter hatch is coming up and will be here before you know it. I know you're excited about that.

Have you found any Showgirl eggs yet?

I haven't found anything solid. I have found a girl somewhat locally that has some showgirls and she'll sell me some eggs, the only thing is, is all of her birds are in together and she doesn't seperate them out for breeding so if I buy from her I have a chance of getting some showgirls, but I have a chance of ending up with other barnyard mixes and no showgilrs too. She does have some frizzles/sizzles so I might get to add a new type to my flock, but I really want showgirls. If I don't find someone locally with showgirl/silkies seperated out to breed then I will probably get a couple dozen from her just to add a new blood line and then look into buying some showgirl chicks this spring/summer.

I ended up with 7 roos out of 12 from the last hatch, (pretty sure, a couple are still iffy) and 4 of them are already crowing. (They are now 11, almost 12 weeks) One started at 7 weeks...lol The other three have been going for the last week and a halfish. Of course I get the early crowers. My sis was supposed to come get the 5 boys I'm not keeping but she hasn't made it out here yet.

Glad to see that you are feeling better and back in the addiction...lol I've been dying to set more, but I am being good,

 

[StephensonC]

I haven't found anything solid. I have found a girl somewhat locally that has some showgirls and she'll sell me some eggs, the only thing is, is all of her birds are in together and she doesn't seperate them out for breeding so if I buy from her I have a chance of getting some showgirls, but I have a chance of ending up with other barnyard mixes and no showgilrs too. She does have some frizzles/sizzles so I might get to add a new type to my flock, but I really want showgirls. If I don't find someone locally with showgirl/silkies seperated out to breed then I will probably get a couple dozen from her just to add a new blood line and then look into buying some showgirl chicks this spring/summer.

I ended up with 7 roos out of 12 from the last hatch, (pretty sure, a couple are still iffy) and 4 of them are already crowing. (They are now 11, almost 12 weeks) One started at 7 weeks...lol The other three have been going for the last week and a halfish. Of course I get the early crowers. My sis was supposed to come get the 5 boys I'm not keeping but she hasn't made it out here yet.

Glad to see that you are feeling better and back in the addiction...lol I've been dying to set more, but I am being good,

Wow! That's a lot of roosters! Sounds like my luck.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Wow! That's a lot of roosters! Sounds like my luck.

Mumble ended up being a girl though so we changed her name to Lucy...lol. The pure white one is a girl, one of the polish/silkies and one of the silkies and I think the other naked neck is a girl. That's the iffy one. It's a start. At least I got some girls and tehy weren't all roos....lol Just gives me an excuse for more hatches....lol

 

[traceyj]

I'm worried about all kinds of things with my hatch and I haven't even got my eggs yet! What if I get Roos, how do I tell they are Roos? I can't have Roos here just hens, so I have to rehome them.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I'm worried about all kinds of things with my hatch and I haven't even got my eggs yet! What if I get Roos, how do I tell they are Roos? I can't have Roos here just hens, so I have to rehome them.

I can have roos, but I don't have enough girls to have more than a couple roos in the coop, so that means the rest has to go. Not an easy thing cause it's hard to pick just two when you have as many awesome roos as I have. Out of the 7 roos that hatched I really like 5 of them....lol I still have one I think is a hen that still might turn out to be a roo. Those darn peacombs are so hard to tell!

 

[FoxHead]

It's so easy to get information obsessed when incubating eggs! Just be patient and see what turns out. And learn from you see (candling, temps, humidity, duds, air sacs, porous shells). It's such a fun learning experience!

 

[StephensonC]

It is such a fun learning experience!! Only thing is, once you do it the first time, you'll become addicted and start doing it again and again. I'm on my 3rd in 3 months...lol I am even considering a 2nd incubator.Lol I don't keep them all though, I sell them to help pay for feed and stuff. I live in an area where they are easy to sell, and if for some reason I have left overs, we have a local chicken auction. The auction doesn't bring as much $ though some days. I figured with spring coming up, they will be in higher demand.

As far as roosters go, I can keep them, but not all of them. I'm kinda partial to roosters. I think they are all beautiful with their colorful stringy feathers that glisten and then there's their beautiful curved tail. I would keep them all if I could.

Amylynn atleast you go some girls from yours. I would love to see them all. I'm sure they are getting huge by now. I wish I could end up with an all white. Any idea what breed she is? I'm gonna try to generate an all white EE this summer.....

And the crowing!!!!!! Are they still in the house? That would be so funny to wake up to. BTW, are you expecting that HUGE blizzard that's headed north?