Hatch-Along - Setting eggs this weekend (Jan5/6) WHOS WITH ME!

[Wax Myrtle]

Hi, everyone! I've been lurking along on the thread since around day 12 for several of you, and felt I should pop in and say Hello and Thanks. Especially if this thread is going to continue. I plan on ordering an Incukit in the next week or three, and have learned so much from y'all.

 

[fisherlady]

Hi, everyone! I've been lurking along on the thread since around day 12 for several of you, and felt I should pop in and say Hello and Thanks. Especially if this thread is going to continue.

I plan on ordering an Incukit in the next week or three, and have learned so much from y'all.

Welcome to the addiction....

I think the official opening line of BYC should be.... Hello, my name is >>>>> and I am addicted to chickens!

 

[SusanRenee]

LOL I know the feeling my husabnd says all I do is talk about chickens. Its so bad the other day He took our 3 daughters to the grocery store to pick up dinner and had the girls pick me out some flowers my oldest(10) said I think mom would want a chicken instead

Muhhha! I know what you mean... Big R, our local feed chain, is getting chicks on Valentine's Day. I mentioned to to the hubs.... I mean, who needs flowers and candy???

 

[FeyRaine]

Well I still have the 1 chicken & 5 duck eggs in the bator (to hatch tomarrow 2/2) but not very likely.

My tiny chick J , is now named Jaylee which means "Blue chattering bird in the meadow" according to some babyname website.
& WOW does Jaylee have a voice! She is so small I'm handfeeding w/ twisers , I cut a spec. of cooked beef fat & then I had to cut that into quarters b/c it was still way too large! I've given yogurt & soft cooked egg, the crumbles remain impossibly big for her. Since I have little hope of that 1 chicken egg hatching I have arranged to get 2 chick buddies for her Sat. I just hope they are not too large to put her w/ them.

As for trying again--
I have a borrowed 30 Egg LG incubator sitting here ready to set up --
But I have no eggs : (
I think it needs to have a good # in it for heat stability & right now I only have one gal laying who's eggs I'd want to hatch.
I'm going to to have to start saving up $ to buy some shipped eggs so it is gonna be some time f/b I can make use of this LG...

 

[fisherlady]

Gracie is still busy teaching the little ones everything there is to be mini chickens! Today it was how to enjoy a treat of small meal worms and dead meal worm beetles... I gatherd a bunch from our meal worm farm and scattered them instead of their normal scratch seed. As you can see in the video Mindy was a concerned observer, wanting to make sure all the chicks were all OK. That dog is totally in love with her chickens!

 

[Antgarner]

Crossed back to a blue/green egger roo they can & will produce colored eggs. If that baby's daddy was an EE it has a good chance of laying colored eggs.

I bought the eggs as Ameraucana, so they should be a cross of two EEs at the very least. Would pink eggs just be considered a form of brown egg, or is there a special trait that causes the pink hue? I was reading a thread that explained EE egg colors, but they didn't mention pink eggs. (Silkie, you know everything there is to know about these little guys, so I need to ask: have you ever taught one to play chess?)

 

[dblea202]

We have wobbling!! We were able to get a video im gonna upload in a little bit!

 

[fisherlady]

We have wobbling!! We were able to get a video im gonna upload in a little bit!

 

[Peggy-Sue]

Here is mine and dblea202 wobbling egg!!!!

 

[fisherlady]

That is so neat to see! We missed out on all of that stuff because we weren't able to have any 'eyes on' time past day 15 or so... Guess thats a major advantage to using the incubators!