January 2020 Hatch along

[FoodFreedomNow]

What kind of chicks are they. I call this coloring penguin I have some like that in mine, but mine are barnyard mixes.

They're mostly Silverudd's Blue with a few Olive Eggers (SB x FBCM). Some do look like penguins!

 

[FortCluck]

They're mostly Silverudd's Blue with a few Olive Eggers (SB x FBCM). Some do look like penguins!

Olive eggers!!! My favorite! I lost mine and it's been the only chicken I've lost out of my flock. She always had reproductive issues.

I hope I can get another one some day!

Do you sell your chicks or do you keep them? I always like knowing what people do with their chicks.

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

Olive eggers!!! My favorite! I lost mine and it's been the only chicken I've lost out of my flock. She always had reproductive issues.

I hope I can get another one some day!

Do you sell your chicks or do you keep them? I always like knowing what people do with their chicks.

Sorry to hear about your OE. Hope you do get another someday!

I keep some and sell some...couldn't keep them all, even if I wanted to (and there's the hatching habit, lol) without expanding infrastructure a lot.

 

[FortCluck]

Sorry to hear about your OE. Hope you do get another someday!

I keep some and sell some...couldn't keep them all, even if I wanted to (and there's the hatching habit, lol) without expanding infrastructure a lot.

I usually only keep about one or two out of every hatch that I do. So far it's worked well for me. When we move I will have several extra large coops so I never have to worry about room.

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

I usually only keep about one or two out of every hatch that I do. So far it's worked well for me. When we move I will have several extra large coops so I never have to worry about room.

Nice - seems like a good practice to keep numbers reasonable! If I just had chickens, that would be one thing, but there are a number of other animals here already (due in part to my, shall we say, active year-round hatching - if it's an egg, I'll try to hatch it ).

Are you planning to move soon?

 

[FortCluck]

Nice - seems like a good practice to keep numbers reasonable! If I just had chickens, that would be one thing, but there are a number of other animals here already (due in part to my, shall we say, active year-round hatching - if it's an egg, I'll try to hatch it ).

Are you planning to move soon?

Yes by next year we want to buy 5+ acres with no restrictions. Right now we are on 3 acres and barely using any of it but our chickens have a huge run that's about 7000 sq ft but we are increasing it probably in February when it warms up.

 

[Nay]

Love these little fluff nuggets

The one with the spot on his head

 

[Erba]

OMG its day 20 already! I better get the brooder out of the shed and set it up now. All 18 fertilised went into lockdown yesterday. 2 of the bought eggs weren't fertilised, so i took them out and made scrambled eggs for the dog with them, since they cost me 2€ a piece, I wasn't going to let them go to waste.

I have build a barrier for lockdown, because I want to know which chicks came out of the coffee cream coloured shells and which came out of the browner shells. The browner ones will get a brown ring on their leg, so I can see what colour they get and if they got the gene or not.
I only want the coffee cream coloured eggs in future breedings. I love that colour and think suits the Light Sussex much better.

 

[Nay]

OMG its day 20 already! I better get the brooder out of the shed and set it up now. All 18 fertilised went into lockdown yesterday. 2 of the bought eggs weren't fertilised, so i took them out and made scrambled eggs for the dog with them, since they cost me 2€ a piece, I wasn't going to let them go to waste.

I have build a barrier for lockdown, because I want to know which chicks came out of the coffee cream coloured shells and which came out of the browner shells. The browner ones will get a brown ring on their leg, so I can see what colour they get and if they got the gene or not.
I only want the coffee cream coloured eggs in future breedings. I love that colour and think suits the Light Sussex much better.

So excited to follow along! Would love to see the pretty eggs you're talking about.

 

[Erba]

Here are the coffee cream and light brown next to each other in the incubator. You'll probably think I'm nuts, because there is hardly that much of a difference! But there it is. I'll be breeding with those who lay the lightest eggs.