How many chicks will you hatch in 2026?

[2ndTink]

Ordering some Exhibition type RIR from cackle this year! I’m planning on helping conserve the true RIR line and maybe even showing them next year if I get good birds.

I hope they are great quality and you can show them!

Conservation is a great thing too!

 

[Iluveggers]

@tviss711 has a hatch-a-long going for the hatch they are doing in class!

I think this is so awesome, so many kids would never otherwise have an opportunity to see how an egg develops and a chick pops out.

Thanks I’ll have to find that thread for this! I teach middle school math & science in an urban district, and without fail my kids say it is the favorite activity they have done while in school! We have some future chicken owners in the making! They are fully responsible for feeding, cleaning & watering while we house them, we take guesses on which will hatch and in what order, what color chick will come out, take percentages of weight loss of each egg, make graphs, and give them names.

 

[2ndTink]

Thanks I’ll have to find that thread for this! I teach middle school math & science in an urban district, and without fail my kids say it is the favorite activity they have done while in school! We have some future chicken owners in the making! They are fully responsible for feeding, cleaning & watering while we house them, we take guesses on which will hatch and in what order, what color chick will come out, take percentages of weight loss of each egg, make graphs, and give them names.

Here's the link!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/mrs-viss-classroom-hatch-a-long.1682651/

I'm on the computer now and it's so much easier to navigate and grab links, sorry for not doing it last night

 

[2ndTink]

Thanks I’ll have to find that thread for this! I teach middle school math & science in an urban district, and without fail my kids say it is the favorite activity they have done while in school! We have some future chicken owners in the making! They are fully responsible for feeding, cleaning & watering while we house them, we take guesses on which will hatch and in what order, what color chick will come out, take percentages of weight loss of each egg, make graphs, and give them names.

Wow you really put a lot into the hatch, that's really great. Making math and science fun

I vaguely remember we hatched chicks in kindergarten, I have no clue what all we did around them. I think I remember them setting eggs as they were developing on the projector, wow dating myself here

 

[LikeTurkeys]

Have to update; 50 hatched out 3 days ago! 26 already found new homes

 

[2ndTink]

Have to update; 50 hatched out 3 days ago! 26 already found new homes

That's great! So 50 chicks every 5 weeks, you should be knocking on 500 chicks this year pretty easily

 

[AinaWGSD]

I wonder what an Ameraucana x Leghorn would produce for egg color?

I have one of those! Well, 99% sure I do anyway, hatcheries don't like to tell what breeds go into their colored layers but it's the combination that makes sense.

She's my best layer, large light blue eggs.

A better picture of her comb. It's really big for a modified pea comb, but plenty small enough to avoid the touch of frostbite my olive egger and rhode island red got last year.

She's the dominant hen and can be a little mean to the other girls, but nothing extreme. She's not a cuddler, and doesn't let me catch her up unless she's shut in the coop but is easy enough to grab off the roost.

 

[fluffycrow]

I have one of those! Well, 99% sure I do anyway, hatcheries don't like to tell what breeds go into their colored layers but it's the combination that makes sense. View attachment 4292821View attachment 4292823
She's my best layer, large light blue eggs.
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A better picture of her comb. It's really big for a modified pea comb, but plenty small enough to avoid the touch of frostbite my olive egger and rhode island red got last year.

She's the dominant hen and can be a little mean to the other girls, but nothing extreme. She's not a cuddler, and doesn't let me catch her up unless she's shut in the coop but is easy enough to grab off the roost.

She’s really pretty. Does she lean more Ameraucana or Leghorn in behaviour?

 

[AinaWGSD]

She’s really pretty. Does she lean more Ameraucana or Leghorn in behaviour?

It's been a really long time since I had either of those breeds, and my ameraucana was pretty flighty from what I recall. I'd say probably more leghorn. She's definitely my loudest chicken, when she started laying I could hear her eggsong from nearly a block away (though somehow my next door neighbor didn't know we had chickens, she's an older lady so maybe is a little hard of hearing)!

 

[fluffycrow]

It's been a really long time since I had either of those breeds, and my ameraucana was pretty flighty from what I recall. I'd say probably more leghorn. She's definitely my loudest chicken, when she started laying I could hear her eggsong from nearly a block away (though somehow my next door neighbor didn't know we had chickens, she's an older lady so maybe is a little hard of hearing)!

She sounds like a Mediterranean hen through and through ! I bet she’s an excellent flier as well