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

[smfildes]

I can't resist! I'm in. I have 4 Bators ready. I can't seem to stop. What do you do with all the chicks? I'm out of room. Help.

 

[dsqard]

Is it Saturday yet?

 

[halo]

Im up to 16 marans and 2 Ameraucanas. One and a half more days to collect!

 

[acid_chipmunk]

Finishing up a hatch today to make room for eggs to go in tomorrow. I have 15 gorgeous new baby silkies, including 4 lavs, 2 BLRW, and a choco Polish running around fluffing up with 1 more Polish and 2 more silkies zipping.

We have 3 Tolbunt eggs so far and hoping for more today and maybe one tomorrow before noon. I swear they have heard about this hatch and wanted to join.


Illia, the Tolbunts laying was a total surprise to us. They are younger than our friends, and his aren't laying yet. Hope yours come out of molt soon and start laying for you.

 

[MuranoFarms]

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The FIRST trip?

Oh yeah, you got it bad!

Today a regular egg customer came by. He always buys 6 dozen eggs, every couple weeks. DD told him, "Sorry, we have no eggs, my mom has lost her mind." Poor guy got no eggs ....

Yeah , the people wanting my eggs don't seem to understand when I tell them " The incubator's not full , check with me next week . " .

This is why I have a few 'eating egg hens' lol My EE's and golden comet. They would be some marans maybe polish cross mutts.....so we never hatch them

I could just imagine DH's face if we had no eggs to eat because I was hatching them all!

 

[tuthillny]

Hi,
This is my first post and I would love to join everyone tomorrow. I have my homemade incubator running for the last 2 days - to get out the kinks. I will be putting in 3 BSL's eggs (the other hens are on strike or coming out of the molt) and my pullets are not laying yet. A friend of a friend gave me 15 lovely brown/purple eggs but he does not know what breeds - just half are white and the others are red. Plus 4 roosters. It should be interesting.
Thanks

 

[acid_chipmunk]

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WELCOME!!!!!! Hope you enjoy your time with all of us nut jobs!

 

[IdealisticRoo]

I am running a homemade incubator too! I think making the incubator adds an element of pride to the would-be chicks!

My homemade is running now for a Christmas hatch, I bought a hovabator for the New Years hatch. My drug, er breed of choice is anything that lays green or blue eggs, so I have both incubators STUFFED with E.E. and Araucana eggs (couldn't get my hands on any Ameraucana eggs)

The hovabator for this contest isn't stuffed yet, but I kinda over-ordered and I had one seller not contact me for 4 days, and then email and apologize and tell me he is sending extras!

Great! I am now 20 eggs over turner capacity! The homemade unit goes into lockdown on the 22nd, I guess if I get an auto-turner by then and put it 6-8 inches above the soon-to hatch eggs, I can squeak by!

 

[Mahonri]

Post office called at 5:30AM. Glad I was awake.

Chookschicks sent 13 beautiful eggs. I broke one trying to get it out of the foam... but the foam is nice.
onthespot sent 33 eggs.... I dropped a MFC. clutz me. She has probably the DARKEST Black Copper Marans eggs I've seen in my life.
Laree is hatching 18 of those for me because I only dared to "stack" about 14... last time I stacked I had decent success (I stacked my own out of the coop... almost all of those made it) I figure like last time that by first candle there won't be any stacked anymore.... unless the PO was very kind.

So I have 82 in my two bators and Laree is hatching 3.5 dozen for me.

Pics to follow this evening... I sat them in the bators before taking them out just so I could see how I wanted them...Bators starting to warm.

Wahoo.

 

[Mahonri]

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Welcome to BYC! put them in at NOON Saturday your time.

Wow, so we have folks on either side of both ponds hatching! Cool!