March 2017! Hatch with us!

[orrpeople]

Day 9 for my colorful layers... I couldn't wait to candle. UGH I can't see anything! LOL I'm only able to see through 3/14 eggs! With my dark eggs I can tell they have airsacs at least. Guess this hatch is going to be a wait and see.

I found with dark eggs, I could see a lot more after day 14 - especially the movement . But even then, some were still obviously in the witness protection program.

 

[Mylied]

Seems to go in spurts. Now with the feed stores stocked with $3 hatchery chicks, nobody cares that my pure bred, healthy, gorgeous birds are worth way more than I even ask for them! Well I'm not giving them away.

I haven't tried to sell chicks yet. I did sell 7 straight run silkie and showgirl 2 month olds for $90. I was pretty proud of that. I sold some easter eggers that were about a year old too with no problem. But now I have some 4 month old easter eggers and I have inquiries, but no takers yet. Now that I just have the cream legbars as my egg layers, we'll see how their offspring sells. I can imagine that it's hard to compete with the cheap chicks at Tractor Supply.

Also, were one of those chicks a frizzle cochin or was it a frizzle something else? I want a frizzle cochin so bad, but they are nowhere to be found around here.

 

[Jessimom]

My last two hatches are starting to get their feathers. I have some beatiful backyard mix eggs from @ShadesofSable. I have 3 that are frizzled!! The silkie/sizzle chicks are about 10 days younger and I can't tell yet.

 

[lilwildrabbit]

They're the primary reason we don't have bantams or silkies, and that our free range age is almost 5 months. They don't go after our large fowl - but the red tails will. Thankfully we don't have very many... but that could change tomorrow if one of them decides one of our trees might make a good nesting spot!!

We have both coopers and red tailed along with bald eagles, golden eagles and some huge owls so I'm in a bad place for winged predation that's why I'm building a closed coop and run for bantams and using Mylar syrups and string for my larger run also I string some deer netting up in the trees to discourage flight paths of the large birds

 

[orrpeople]

We have both coopers and red tailed along with bald eagles, golden eagles and some huge owls so I'm in a bad place for winged predation that's why I'm building a closed coop and run for bantams and using Mylar syrups and string for my larger run also I string some deer netting up in the trees to discourage flight paths of the large birds

I put up a bunch of orchard netting - my husband jokingly asked if I was building a trap...

 

[orrpeople]

Seems to go in spurts. Now with the feed stores stocked with $3 hatchery chicks, nobody cares that my pure bred, healthy, gorgeous birds are worth way more than I even ask for them! Well I'm not giving them away.

Yeah, I live in an area without much appreciation for pure or rare breed birds. I feel like every time I post a CL ad, I'm doing more of an educational campaign than actually trying to sell something. I'm a "reformed hatchery customer" because I finally started to do research and realized that none of my standard hatchery laying hens was even close to the "standard"! Every now and then, you come across someone who gets what small farmers are trying to do, and they are super encouraging!

 

[lilwildrabbit]

I HAVE A SUPRISED visit from an egg!!
The eggs that I rescued from the cold this morning that I didn't think had a snowballs chance in hatching one just hatched I was sitting here after checking the eggs about 5 minutes before I herd a chirping and thought the ones in the living room are awful loud but looked up into the incubator and saw this little thing looking at me! I a astounded and amazed that one hatched them eggs were ice cold!!! It's doing great I'll make sure it stays in the heat for a while but I might just have one or two !!! That makes my day!!!!!!!

 

[dan26552]

I HAVE A SUPRISED visit from an egg!!
The eggs that I rescued from the cold this morning that I didn't think had a snowballs chance in hatching one just hatched I was sitting here after checking the eggs about 5 minutes before I herd a chirping and thought the ones in the living room are awful loud but looked up into the incubator and saw this little thing looking at me! I a astounded and amazed that one hatched them eggs were ice cold!!! It's doing great I'll make sure it stays in the heat for a while but I might just have one or two !!! That makes my day!!!!!!!

Awesome!!!!!

 

[Mylied]

I HAVE A SUPRISED visit from an egg!!
The eggs that I rescued from the cold this morning that I didn't think had a snowballs chance in hatching one just hatched I was sitting here after checking the eggs about 5 minutes before I herd a chirping and thought the ones in the living room are awful loud but looked up into the incubator and saw this little thing looking at me! I a astounded and amazed that one hatched them eggs were ice cold!!! It's doing great I'll make sure it stays in the heat for a while but I might just have one or two !!! That makes my day!!!!!!!

Great news! I hope lots more hatch for you.

 

[Mylied]

My last two hatches are starting to get their feathers. I have some beatiful backyard mix eggs from @ShadesofSable. I have 3 that are frizzled!! The silkie/sizzle chicks are about 10 days younger and I can't tell yet.

Oh they are so cute. I love how frizzled chickens look.