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

[superchemicalgirl]

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Some people have no control

There is no such thing when it comes to hatching.

I realized that when I shoved 29 eggs in my Brinsea.

Then yesterday my GLW went broody. Today I shoved a bunch of eggs under her.

Who was that crazed egg packing/shoving woman?

 

[debilorrah]

2 or 4, no real difference.

 

[wolftracks]

None of my Icelandics hatched.

I'm pretty sure it's the Stockton PO that damages most of my boxes. Denny's not far from me and I ended up with 29 from her that weren't so smashed I could count.

I was mainly trying to keep them from running on the other eggs.

got sidetracked.

Warden sent the Icelandics and Bargin sent BCMs and those boxes were thrashed.

I'm so tired of damaged eggs!

 

[CorgiHouse]

OK, I tried candling again today since I wasn't vey good at seeing what I was supposed to at day 5.....and I saw lots of little 'blobs' swimming around inside my eggs!!! Woohoo!

So out of my 14 barnyard mutt eggs, I have 12 that I feel pretty confident are good. Some were harder to see since I have some green and cuckoo maran eggs in there.

I'm quite confident that 1 is clear. It was the only one I got in there from my SLW - and it happened to be her last egg she laid before quitting. I had not seen the rooster paying much, if any, attention to her in the previous few weeks, so I wondered if it would be fertile. I had hoped for another lacey EE, though (my roo is an EE).

One green egg is questionable, but I think it's clear. Hard for me to tell at this point. This was the very first egg one of my EE pullets laid! She started laying just in time to get in the NYD hatch.

I do have 4 others from her in there that look good, though! I'm very excited about that. She's a pretty blue EE pullet.

So I'm feeling pretty good right now......and keeping my fingers crossed that things continue to go along as they should.

 

[FrenchToast]

I set 29 eggs on December 11th. These include silkies, silkie showgirl cross, turkens.

 

[kathyinmo]

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And they are just beautiful birds! Mine were out free ranging today, and I got a couple pictures of some...

I love this picture from awhile back:

 

[Mahonri]

wow Kathy those two roos are gorgeous. And was Isi that dad?? WOW!

One looks wheaten and the other looks like a blue golden duckwing--- you can tell he's the boss.

 

[Mahonri]

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Sorry I missed your previous post.

 

[kathyinmo]

Yes, Isi is the daddy of mine, I believe.

 

[SteveH]

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And they are just beautiful birds! Mine were out free ranging today, and I got a couple pictures of some...

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I love this picture from awhile back:

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Handsome birds ; they look very suitable for free rangeing . You know , you're a few hours south of me , but it looks so much more like fall there [ which I guess it is actually ] than the snowy winter with subzero temps here . Suppoosed to be up to 32 here tomorrow .