HELP HATCHING EMERGENCY! - Think it passed on :(

[walkswithdog]

Fire okay that would be an ODD mix. I have a grey mottled polish based sizzle growing here now, and s/he's quite different looking.

Other than the lot of show PR eggs I want after this last bator lot I'm done (okay two bators, one hatching-one cooking).

Then it's sort, sell and grow out, and sort and sell. Until I hit the lot I want for fall/winter.

By then it should be Delawares, Barred Rocks and Partridge Rocks, BR/PR's of which I now have five (black bleeding red or blacks), and blue and black rocks from BBS Rocks - if any of the buggers are hens, might keep the best BBS male, and bantam dark brahmas, and some barred EEs.

So lots fewer lol. Did I not mention how many turkeys I'm keeping? Probably a simple oversight on my part....

I want four BRs And probably six Calicos minimum going into winter. I need a much bigger coop and pen. LOL.

Since I can't for the life of me tell the sizzles male from female they may all go despite their nifty adorableness. I may not have the patience to wait for crowing and eggs.

Come next year I should be set for penning and doing a rainbow of Rocks and the first gen of Del/Rock. And the third generation of PR's.

I'm only keeping the three best Del hens and the best Del male. Truly reasonable - really.

Right now it just needs to stop POURING RAIN. I mean it. STOP IT. Really.

So this year I went a little nuts what with having access to three bators and a hatcher. Sales should be good though.

 

[firedove]

Well so far I have the following hatched out, all fathered by my SLW roo, chicks from Golden Comets, Black Sex-Links, and Barred Rocks. Not sure which came from which exactly but I've got one black chick with a white throat, one black chick all white underneath and white wing tips, 2 very pale chipmunk chicks, and 3 yellow/gold chicks. Unfortunately I'm only going to have them another 2 weeks so I will never know what they turn into in the long run. I hope to sell them all at a swap on May 23.

Grey mottled Polish/Sizzle, that would be interesting! I only have the one incubator so I can't get too crazy. Plus DH thinks it, and the brooders, are using too much electricity so he doesn't want me running them all the time. I think we are doing just fine with the electricity and I'm pretty darn sure it's the AC that uses too much electricity, not my chicken things! Plus the chickens tend to pay back and more when I sell them.

Ever since my Royal Palm got out and disappeared DH has said no more turkeys

I really liked my Bruiser! I still hope he will find his way home but I'm not too optimistic about it.

I don't plan to keep anything from my hatches at this time. I just like to see what they come out looking like! So they will all be money makers as time goes on. The 30 chicks I raised this spring cost $133 total for purchase and shipping. I kept 14 and sold 15, 1 is still waiting for it's new home. The 15 I sold were 13 pullets and 2 cockerels. I sold 2 pullets for $8 each at 7 weeks old, the other 11 at $10 each 9 weeks old, and the cockerels at $8 each 9 weeks old. So got $142. Profit $9 which I doubt they used more than that in electricity. Those were chicks I had to purchase. These mix chicks will be $5.50 each at the swap and so far there are 7 of them. They didn't cost me anything extra to get since they were eggs from my own flock. $38.50 total. He can't say that I used almost $40 worth of electricity on incubating and brooding for 3 weeks! Those things don't even include the other 8 chicks I will be selling in June. Anyways, I'm done ranting about that

It's taking a break from raining here for the past day and a half but it's getting cloudier as I type. Luckily my chickens have so many places to forage that are dry I can let them out every day. The big ones especially like to go under the raised barn and in the run-in shed. They like the horse stall too when he will let them hang out, lol.