HALLOWEEN Hatch-a-Long 2016 w/ Hosts, Mike, Sally & BantyChooks

[DwayneNLiz]

No, he doesn't have feathered legs. It's just the angle that I was holding him. His butt and tail feathers were showing lol. I'm not sure how far from you I am but I'm in the general Altoona/Ebensburg area.

Garlic pasta and some wine sound WONDERFUL tonight. I may have to make something like that...maybe spaghetti squash since I have a ton of it lol

i was thinking the same thing about the pasta for dinner, think i need to go to the store

Not yet..... mail should be here soon though

Thought I would share one of the eggs I might be entering into the Halloween decorating contest. I have at least 6 in the works and this is the first done.

I'm only gonna enter my favorites but I might need help paring them down

nice egg!

 

[chickendreams24]

Thanks I'm pretty bummed not sure what's up with the silkies. The friend I got them from, hatches from them all the time but uses broodies I've used my bator twice and not done well. I hope these two are some nice colors and have the 5 toes my paint silkie I got from her previously is perfect except I think it has a single or possibly pea comb. Hoping that one is a pullet.

silkies are harder to hatch, and even worse if they are in with LF eggs and or shipped 
someday i will try them again lol
i can say that i am an egg killing machine, but i am hoping to fix that with my new bator that i made

Woohooooo!!!!!

Thank you. It is hard to combine my desire for more counters with my desire to keep the house authentic. No to mention, I need to update for safety Companies want to modernize.
I think it was 25 dozen.
She wanted me to have an avatar. Any avatar.

Yeay!

I'm trying to hatch a batch of shipped silkie eggs right now too. Given the harder hatching rates of silkies, I pretty much figured if I got 1 out of 8 eggs, I was lucky since shipped eggs do alot worse to begin with.

I may order a batch of 24, to try a larger variety to see if I can get a few more... 

What kind of bator/humidity are you running at? I've had pretty good development so far in a few of my eggs, but i'm keeping the humidity around 45-55% - I let my cochin eggs sit with 30-40% humidity. The two viable eggs I had in there formed, 1 hatched, the other never made it out of the shell because it was upside down or something. (hubby opened it up to find out.)

The silkie eggs, the two with the worst air cells that were shipped, had blood rings show up with in the first 3 days of being in the incubator. So, I was shocked when we made it past day 8 with 3-4 still viable looking. (2 were unfertilized.)

I'm still figuring out the best way to handle the silkie eggs, because they seem to be pretty temperamental.

best of luck sweetie!!!!! 

yay!!!!!  did they come yet?

I dont care what avy, just so you have one.   I keep thinking yer a newbie lol

They technically weren't shipped she drove them the almost two hours here. I actually did first incubate shipped silkie eggs and I did pretty well.

I do great with my own silkie eegs better probably than my large fowl but this is the second batch of silkies I've gotten from her and not done well on. Little number two is out now and looks to be either a dark blue or black and I would guess pullet based on comb size at hatch. Last living silkie egg is pipped. The two probable dead ones I have on the bator still but separate and no movement in them.

The orps look to be starting internal pips soon.

I'm using a Farm Innovators think it's a 4250 with Turner and built in digital thermometer and hygrometer. I also have a second calibrated thermometer hygrometer in the bator. Temps have been very steady the lowest it's been has been 97* but it's been almost completely steady at 99-100 humidity I have been basing on a combined estimate between what the air cells looked like. It's been running between 23-28% for incubation and right now we are running 35-42% not what I would normally run. I would have it a bit higher but the eggs seem to be doing quite well with these numbers.

Hope you feel better soon Sally.

I'll hope and wait and I'll keep trying never have I had such bad silkie hatches as these last two including the first ever hatch we did. That's okay though.

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh, I had not thought of angel food cake! Thank you for the tips! I feel bad when I have to throw them away when they get old.

Do you have dogs..cats? If so...maybe they are tired of eggs too...scramble them up..give them back to the chickens a few times a week. I know, you probably have been. I sell my extras to a regular..thank goodness! Helps with feed bill.

 

[Cynthia12]

I have a terrible cough and sore throat, but I think I said that lol something always hitting me
Happy Friday!

I have hour and half yet!!!!

oh yums!!!! Good CALL!!!!! Do you have a good homemade recipe?

Oh no, that time of yr. I can't stand the cough! It goes on and on for me. I hope you get over yours fast..you are still a youngin.

 

[Cynthia12]

They technically weren't shipped she drove them the almost two hours here. I actually did first incubate shipped silkie eggs and I did pretty well.

I do great with my own silkie eegs better probably than my large fowl but this is the second batch of silkies I've gotten from her and not done well on. Little number two is out now and looks to be either a dark blue or black and I would guess pullet based on comb size at hatch. Last living silkie egg is pipped. The two probable dead ones I have on the bator still but separate and no movement in them.

The orps look to be starting internal pips soon.

I'm using a Farm Innovators think it's a 4250 with Turner and built in digital thermometer and hygrometer. I also have a second calibrated thermometer hygrometer in the bator. Temps have been very steady the lowest it's been has been 97* but it's been almost completely steady at 99-100 humidity I have been basing on a combined estimate between what the air cells looked like. It's been running between 23-28% for incubation and right now we are running 35-42% not what I would normally run. I would have it a bit higher but the eggs seem to be doing quite well with these numbers.

Hope you feel better soon Sally.

I'll hope and wait and I'll keep trying never have I had such bad silkie hatches as these last two including the first ever hatch we did. That's okay though.

You have your own silkie eggs? Man, I've been trying for a few yrs. My silkie boys don't breed! What? I am hoping this boy I have now will. He hasn't started to crow yet..they are still pretty young. I have the white boy, a white pullet, and a month younger splash pullet. Crossing my fingers for some fertile eggs in the future!









I trim their eyes. I want them to see. Still fluffy.

I got 12 white silkie eggs from a gal out of state..hatched 6. Pretty good hatch for shipped. They were fertile!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

You have your own silkie eggs? Man, I've been trying for a few yrs. My silkie boys don't breed! What? I am hoping this boy I have now will. He hasn't started to crow yet..they are still pretty young. I have the white boy, a white pullet, and a month younger splash pullet. Crossing my fingers for some fertile eggs in the future!

I trim their eyes. I want them to see. Still fluffy.

I got 12 white silkie eggs from a gal out of state..hatched 6. Pretty good hatch for shipped. They were fertile!

LOL, cute silkies, along with their eyes i'd trim vents, give them a little help finding their mark

 

[Mylied]

Hopefully I'm not too late to join. Boo! I have eggs due to hatch the 9th of October.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Hopefully I'm not too late to join. Boo! I have eggs due to hatch the 9th of October.

Yayyy!! not too late! whatchya got cookin'?

 

[Mylied]

Just five easter egger mixed eggs. This is my first time hatching, so I just used what the girls laid in a couple days. My rooster is an Ameraucana. Some of my girls are the same, some are easter eggers, some are red sex linked, and some are mutts. I just have them all together. So two eggs are blue and 3 are brown.

 

[Fluffyserama]

Eggs are here and air cells are looking acceptable for shipped eggs. I'm not going to even dream about a good hatch until at least half have made it to day 7.
We'll see how they do