Halloween/Thanksgiving Hatch-a-Long 2019

[ShrekDawg]

Mine are home collected. The Delaware is my roosters fave and 100% of her eggs hatched. The RSL eggs had lots of quitters or ones that died while zipping, so I probably won't hatch from them again.

The yellow chick I want to keep is from the RSL cross. It's just so plump and my favorite. I named her Violet after the girl on Willy Wonka that gets huge and they roll her out.

Sorry about all the bad luck with the RSL eggs!!

But OMG I love that name

 

[ShrekDawg]

What? Do you want to live forever?

Party hard, live fast and leave a good looking corpse. We still got time.

Yes, but everyone asks you, "I did what last night?!?" Much easier to just show the pictures.

(with the blackmail demands...)

Friends will bail you out.
Good friends are sitting next to you saying, wanna do it again tomorrow?

Shipped eggs, we say good hatch above 50%.
Home collected eggs are usually higher depending on everything. Fertility, rooster favorites, genetics, weather and all that.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I'll have to take pics tomorrow of the ones I'm hoping to keep, I'll make my husband hold them while I take the pic. They're super fast and wiggly.

I think I'm going to wait to see if I want the black one after the Cochins/BJG cross hatch because I might want one of those instead. I'm not going to keep chickens every time I hatch, when I move I might though

That’s a good idea! They really are quite wiggly haha

You gotta keep them all!!!

 

[RUNuts]

For chicken eggs this year, I had 23/40 hatch from a local chicken rancher.
For quail, it's been all over the map. Great hatches to poor.

From my research, anything over 50% is a winner. And half those are cockerels. 10 of the 23 were cockerels for me. So to get 6 new layers, fill up the incubator.

 

[BantyChooks]

What? Do you want to live forever?

Party hard, live fast and leave a good looking corpse. We still got time.

Can't say my corpse is very good looking, but I can do the rest.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Can't say my corpse is very good looking, but I can do the rest.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Can't say my corpse is very good looking, but I can do the rest.

Also somehow I can’t picture you partying hard (or at all) or doing anything fast. Picture you as more the slow, methodical, think it through/do it right type

And I thought you hated people!?

 

[BantyChooks]

Also somehow I can’t picture you partying hard (or at all) or doing anything fast. Picture you as more the slow, methodical, think it through/do it right type

And I thought you hated people!?

My version of "party" is "eat a lot of unhealthy food while watching Netflix in my PJs."

 

[FortCluck]

My version of "party" is "eat a lot of unhealthy food while watching Netflix in my PJs."

Me too. I haven't partied in so long! I bet I'd have a hangover for days.

 

[ShrekDawg]

My version of "party" is "eat a lot of unhealthy food while watching Netflix in my PJs."

amazing!!! That might actually be mine too!! That and going to concerts lol but I loveeeee eating junk food and watching tv or even just eating junk food

Also speeding