Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[CelticOaksFarm]

Quote: kiddie pool you move around every other to every third day to minimize yellowing the grass. Silver Appleyard or Muscovy are excellent meat conversion. Muscovy is similar to veal
So how do you cook your muscovy? We had some a few years ago and I butchered one and cooked it up. It was really dry. This was the one and only time I've ever tried cooking duck so I probably did it all wrong.
Ok, you know who has the best duck recipes posted you can refer to? Dana in MD her farm is Moose Manor. Very easy to follow and good basic hit the spot recipes. She posts muscovy and domestic duck both. I think she may have posted her goose recently too.

We bacon wrap and slow cook on the BBQ, and also herb rub and put in an oven bag. Geese go on a rack to allow the fat to drip away.

Quote: Cayuga should be a small/medium roaster I would think. We butcher the extra drakes and the culls in the Khaki flock and keep the breasts for us and give the dogs the legs


I need to do some cost comparing of the bresse and jumbo cornish to see if its close to the same on a yearly expense

 

[kraftyladies]

I have one of your eggs that pipped today. It's hatching day!!!

awesome!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Oh and Krafty did the eggs travel well? was a new way for me to pack them in place.

 

[madamwlf]

Ok, you know who has the best duck recipes posted you can refer to? Dana in MD her farm is Moose Manor. Very easy to follow and good basic hit the spot recipes. She posts muscovy and domestic duck both. I think she may have posted her goose recently too.

We bacon wrap and slow cook on the BBQ, and also herb rub and put in an oven bag. Geese go on a rack to allow the fat to drip away.
Cayuga should be a small/medium roaster I would think. We butcher the extra drakes and the culls in the Khaki flock and keep the breasts for us and give the dogs the legs


I need to do some cost comparing of the bresse and jumbo cornish to see if its close to the same on a yearly expense

The Cayugas aren't for me. My DH divorce me if I raised ducks.

 

[kraftyladies]

Oh and Krafty did the eggs travel well? was a new way for me to pack them in place.

I didn't candle or anything (I usually don't)

But they all look great, it was very good packaging!!

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Cool, it was a test to see if I could get 24 in one box all upright lol

 

[debs_flock]

I am hatching a small hatch today: I had 7 of madamwlfs CCL, 1 of my MF cochin/tolbunt Polish mix, 2 lav orps, 2 bbs orps.

I LOVE hatch day! I didn't plan well, I didn't set my last eggs until NYD, so THREE weeks between hatches.................I'm not sure I can handle that. I need to start doing a small once a week setting instead of filling my incubator each time. I don't like waiting a couple of weeks between chicks. Of course, then I'd never get ANYTHING done. On hatch day, I must check the incubators every ten mintues from about 7am to 2am!

Deb

 

[debs_flock]

And if I have to pee during the night......................I check again.........................LOL

 

[pysankigirl]

So this is my first time hatching. I have three eggs that look like they are ready.
but I have a second set that are about a week behind.
so nervous...but I only have the one incubator.
so trying to figure out how I can hatch them but not screw up the other ones.

was thinking about pulling them out and putting them under a broody hen.
but I am chancing that she won't take to them if I do that. but if she does then they will have a real mom.

but after the first broody abandoned them and these are the ones that lived, I am hesitant to do that. I have become attached to eggs.

Is it three days before hatch day that you lock them down?

 

[BHep]

I also got my eggs from DMRippy today. YAY ! Thank you!

Hatched 5 white Orps from Krafty
and 4 BCM from Aye Up.