Mahonri's 2nd Annual NYDHatch, watching them grow...

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

This is a pic of me and my hubby... I don't have any pics of just myself.. I will run from a camera.. So a semi professional photo is all your ever gonna see of me!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/40643_tanya_clint.jpg

 

[Noncentzter]

Another Goodlookin' couple!!

 

[dsqard]

SOOOOO excited. DH picked up my lav orp eggs today! Can't wait to get out of work and check them out.

 

[ChooksChick]

Put me on that list, Sugarplum, and I'll get whatever is laid in the next few days in there at the right moment!!

I'll probably only get a Marans or two and some pullet eggs from my latest generation of Lav Orps, but it'd be fabulous if the Chanteclers decided to finally cough something up for me!!!

I haven't seen a Golden Lakenvelder egg in months, and I've lumped everyone else but the banty Cochins in together because they're too little for this crazy cold. I hope to see a high of 22 with 25 mph wind Sunday...and yet the broodies keep multiplying! What's that about??

 

[Rathbone]

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It is all that huddling together!

 

[ZooMummzy]

I am officially out of this hatch (I had to put my eggs in today - I was getting worried about their age) but I am hatching and I will

have Serama chicks by New Year's Eve.

 

[Rathbone]

So...just curious. Someone mentioned pulling eggs back out of the fridge to put in the incubator. I thought once they went in the fridge they were no good for incubating? Sorry if it is a dumb question. Just trying to learn.

 

[dsqard]

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Nope putting them in the fridge will not keep them from hatching. I think on the message that they typed was a link to the thread about hatching eggs from the supermarket. Of course they have to be fertile and try to find ones that are less than two weeks old, but they can be hatched.

 

[SteveH]

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If you get the chance to go an APA show you should jump on it . The diiference between hatchery breds and dedicated breeder birds is astounding . [ Nothing wrong with owning hatchery sourced birds and they may have an edge in egg laying abilities . ] I've only attended two , and justfied the trips by arranging to meet a breeder there to pick up cockerals I was buying . I'm sure that gas for the round trip was more than shipping , but considering the additional contacts I made for future purchases , the educational value , and the fact that one seller sold me all of his point-of-lay pullets* at a good price , it was worth it . [ * Nobody was buying and he did not want to stay another day , so he shot me a " take-em-all " price . ]

I gathered eggs today in the warmest weather since I started gathering , so I replaced some of my oldest with same-cross fresh . I'm concerned with fertility because I'm useing 20 lb CX cockerals over 4 lb EE pullets ; there was a definate bullseye in the old EE egg I ate ................................. now I'm wondering if the one I replaced it with is fertile .

Oh well .............................

 

[ZooMummzy]

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Nope putting them in the fridge will not keep them from hatching. I think on the message that they typed was a link to the thread about hatching eggs from the supermarket. Of course they have to be fertile and try to find ones that are less than two weeks old, but they can be hatched.

Last December I pulled a couple dozen eggs out of my fridge to hatch. I had just lost my rooster and wanted to try and have some of his babies. Out of the 24, 3 hatched. I'm sure it was because most of them were not fertile in the first place - he only liked certain hens - but they still hatched.