Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[madamwlf]

Do they have any pink or salmon? My Lucy's got darker around 20 weeks.

My older girls, I believe 2 are silver breasted and the other 2 are salmon breasted.

 

[madamwlf]

It's odd to me that all 4 would be so different, don't you think?

And the funny thing is, they were all marked as coming from the same pen.

 

[KPenley]

Then yes, I'd keep the salmon for breeding and the others for eggs.
Now that is weird for the boys...I would expect some consistency from GFF.

 

[krazykat0373]

I'm making DH eggs but all I have are rhodebars,legbars,Isbars,cuckoo silkies, Russian Orlaff, OD, tolbunt.....

BM6 brought me some leghorn eggs yesterday. I can just use those right, leghorns aren't special, they are just some regular white birds, right?

awww...send me the tolbunts dont eat them

 

[Bettacreek]

Hey now, those leghorns are something special here! Everyone fights over those eggs, and I just haven't been able to give anybody a single egg for eating, since they ALL get hatched/shipped.

 

[tdhenson86]

Then yes, I'd keep the salmon for breeding and the others for eggs.
Now that is weird for the boys...I would expect some consistency from GFF.

I feel like this is a conversation that we keep having.

 

[caj1985]

Thanks, I have to say I think he's going to make it. He's got a lot of pluck if you'll excuse the pun. He is not happy about not being allowed out of the egg.

I have to thank you all for your help. I was so tired last night, I don't have a hatching incubator, so I was up every hour the night before, taking chicks out of the incubator and putting them in the brooder. Then this happened and I thought I was going to have a dead baby on top of being exhausted.

I don't understand how this happened. I put eggs into an empty incubator and then I went away on vacation for two weeks. Why am I having eggs hatch over a period of three days now? The only thing I can think of is that my husband put eggs in after I left, but why would he do that? He has some chicken enabling tendencies, but that just seems a bit over the top for him without being given specific instructions by me to do so. I am mystified.

Everyone I have talked to over the last month is having extended hatches. I have breeds that normally pip, zip and are done waiting until day 21 thru 25 to hatch. I don't know what is going on.

 

[rbaker0345]

Besides this one early pipper (is that a word?), the other eight hatched like you said, pipped and zipped. I hatched under hens last year and I didn't have as good luck. I love this little styrofoam GQF with the turner.

You're right though, I do need to get another one without the turner for hatching. I keep having to open it because I don't want to leave them with the turner in there. I really can't be opening and closing the bator with those scovy eggs in there.

 

[rbaker0345]

Besides this one early pipper (is that a word?), the other eight hatched like you said, pipped and zipped. I hatched under hens last year and I didn't have as good luck. I love this little styrofoam GQF with the turner.

You're right though, I do need to get another one without the turner for hatching. I keep having to open it because I don't want to leave them with the turner in there. I really can't be opening and closing the bator with those scovy eggs in there.

I suspect my husband in the case of my extended hatch. But, I don't think its a bad thing, having a husband who ADDS eggs to my bator.
I wonder how he would feel about goats.......

 

[Bettacreek]

Can someone please clear Madamwlf? Just got the tolbunts, paints and chocolate orps in good shape! Thank you!