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Pam, guess what i have here, yep, you guessed it, cwl, Crested White Leghorn

Campining, something for you to goggle eye at, they are doing great

Some eye candy for the RIR worshipers here, total of 16 from eggs bought at The Tullos Poultry sawap

Last but far from least, in fact these are going to be bragged on a lot here in the comming months as they develope, exactly 1 year to the day from aquireing my first Domonique chick, these darlings started hatching on lockdown day and and been kicking it ever since, produced by my Dominique girls and the Dominique Roo i aquired after many months of searching for purity, we have came full circle together and now to start my improvement program, we hatched 16 of 18 on April 16th/17th, now have 15 more in the incubator due on the 16th/17 of may + 28 RedBrown Ameracauna SOP eggs and 6 DOM over WL eggs just for fun, in the other incubator, we have 24 FBCM over EE & White Amaracauna/ Silver Ameracauna eggs and 18 FBCMs eggs from my trio due on the 13th of May.

On another note and project, i had given this roo away before the first of the year, now he is back in full bloom, no pics yet, he will re-enter my EE program with his own few girls.

I recently recieved back from a freind an olive egger roo from my Dec hatch, the first one, he has the blue ear lobes, plus i purchased back 5 OE pullets hatched from the same line of eggs who also have blue earlobes.,

The RIR roo i was giong to use as a breeder will only be used to prduce egg layers, in recent months i noticed a hump on his right back around the wing area, after examining, i found his right thigh about 3 fingers higher on his side than the left, he shows no limp nore has any problem but i do not want to take a chance of passing something genetic down from him to a for sale flock.

I also have 1 trio of Buff Orpington, 1 trio of RIR, 1 trio of White Rocks, 1 trio of Buckeys, 1 trio of Brown Leghorns, 4 pullets 1 roo of GLW and 1 trio of SLW, 1 pair of blue Wheaten Marans if there is such a thing.

OH, you want more news??
I have created my own Cream Legbar White Leghorn EE roo with the blue ear lobes, looks like a game cock, i have also got a barred EE pullet,

I will quit here and let your minds rest, or mine, Now you know what has been keeping me away from BYC the last couple months and i am just barely getting started with the seperate pens needed for each breed, oh, i left some out by the way.
 
topdog24 said:
You would get better results with an auto turner i think, i wish you much luck, hows the broody doing?
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I've been using the auto turner so I'm going to do this one the hard way. ;) Trying to see if I can increase hatch rate on the speckled sussex. I put river rocks in the water channels to help stabilize the temp, lowering temp 1 degree, increasing humidity to 45%, and hand turning three times a day by a third each time.

In the past I used the auto turner, ran temps at 102 (still air) and kept humidity at 30-35%. But so many pip upside down or pip but never hatch, I think they might be getting glued in. Hoping this will help.

Broody is good. Took her a day to get settled and quit hopping out of the broody box. She just didn't have enough eggs. :D She's happy now, though. One of the white layers has adopted the chicks my last broody hatched. She clucks around the yard, sits on them when they're cold, and they all sleep in the nest at night. She's still laying, though. I'm pretty impressed because she's a production hybrid and not supposed to be motherly like that.
 
topdog24 said:
Pam, guess what i have here, yep, you guessed it, cwl, Crested White Leghorn Campining, something for you to goggle eye at, they are doing great Some eye candy for the RIR worshipers here, total of 16 from eggs bought at The Tullos Poultry sawap Last but far from least, in fact these are going to be bragged on a lot here in the comming months as they develope, exactly 1 year to the day from aquireing my first Domonique chick, these darlings started hatching on lockdown day and and been kicking it ever since, produced by my Dominique girls and the Dominique Roo i aquired after many months of searching for purity, we have came full circle together and now to start my improvement program, we hatched 16 of 18 on April 16th/17th, now have 15 more in the incubator due on the 16th/17 of may + 28 RedBrown Ameracauna SOP eggs and 6 DOM over WL eggs just for fun, in the other incubator, we have 24 FBCM over EE & White Amaracauna/ Silver Ameracauna eggs and 18 FBCMs eggs from my trio due on the 13th of May. On another note and project, i had given this roo away before the first of the year, now he is back in full bloom, no pics yet, he will re-enter my EE program with his own few girls. I recently recieved back from a freind an olive egger roo from my Dec hatch, the first one, he has the blue ear lobes, plus i purchased back 5 OE pullets hatched from the same line of eggs who also have blue earlobes., The RIR roo i was giong to use as a breeder will only be used to prduce egg layers, in recent months i noticed a hump on his right back around the wing area, after examining, i found his right thigh about 3 fingers higher on his side than the left, he shows no limp nore has any problem but i do not want to take a chance of passing something genetic down from him to a for sale flock. I also have 1 trio of Buff Orpington, 1 trio of RIR, 1 trio of White Rocks, 1 trio of Buckeys, 1 trio of Brown Leghorns, 4 pullets 1 roo of GLW and 1 trio of SLW, 1 pair of blue Wheaten Marans if there is such a thing. OH, you want more news?? I have created my own Cream Legbar White Leghorn EE roo with the blue ear lobes, looks like a game cock, i have also got a barred EE pullet, I will quit here and let your minds rest, or mine, Now you know what has been keeping me away from BYC the last couple months and i am just barely getting started with the seperate pens needed for each breed, oh, i left some out by the way.
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Did u hatch her or buy her? I got a white chick out of my lastlegbar hatch. Thought I must have had a ee hen lay in the Legbar nest. She has gold colored chicks tho. I guess time will tell. I added the Jill Reese line to mine. If I listed all the breeds I have now your head would spin. Lol! Glad your doing well. If ever looking for rare breeds give me a shout I probably have them. Except for the rocks but the are from a top line. Pam
 
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It's been forever since I've posted here. I've got some wyandotte chicks that will be a month old next week, and finally got an incubator. I've been reading up on hatching for almost a year now (took me that long to bite the bullet and buy one) and I think the eggs I'm using are no good. I couldn't find an air cell when I candled them originally, and at day 4 I still can't see one. I'm going to wait another week and if there's nothing there I'll have a good look at the eggs my hens are laying and see if they are all that way.

I'm super pleased with these wyandottes though. I got five, and have three cockerels and two pullets. They are just starting to get chest and tail feathering. They're mostly blood feathers at the moment.

The incubator


Am I just missing the air cell? It is for sure the fat end of the egg, and even the smaller end didn't have one. Every egg is like that, except for one or two Marans. I have 11 eggs in the incubator.






Only visible air cell



We got six bantams from tractor supply two weeks before we got the wyandottes, and this little cochin came in the mix. Looks like she's a birchen.


One of the bantam cockerels. Not sure what he is. Has feathered feet, yellow/white skin, and it looks like puffy cheeks. His feathers aren't so much white as light blue or lavender.





One of the pullets


Pullet on left, cockerel on right


One of the bantam cockerels. There's another like him, and two black bantam pullets. I'm considering which cockerels to keep.


I put them in a little coop with an attached run and they love it. The sun only hits the ramp, and I find them basking like this all day in it.


Big bruiser



Also, a killdeer laid her eggs in our burn pile, so it looks like we won't be burning anything for a while:
 
Yep. I tried all directions. On the lighter eggs it is obvious that there is no egg cell, and I'm not sure what to do in this case.We had that really bad storm when they were laid, but they never got wet, so I'm at a loss as to why they don't have one.
 

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