May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

[Vantic]

Also trying to hatch out more chickens from a friend for her. I am still debating on if and what breed I want to do for chickens for myself. It needs to have smaller combs through because bigger ones kinda freak me out. I am taking suggestions.

Ameraucana has a pea comb, is cold tolerant but not heat (according to the wiki). Instead of listing breeds, as they all are good for something. May I suggest looking at pea and rose comb breeds. The rose comb is still large, but not tall. Here is my Silver Wyandotte, he has a rose comb

 

[chickiebaby1]

I am a huge Star Wars fan and decided to name my chicks after the movies when/if they hatch. I started making a list last night while we watched the Last Jedi! I loved Bobo freak!

 

[CountryGal83]

So excited this morning. We had our first pip sometime over the night. Before we went to bed I heard a chick chirping. Now I just want to watch it all day but have to head to the office. Probably a good thing and maybe I'll come home to one hatched and a couple of more pips.

 

[Trisseh]

.... is it bad that in addition to the duck eggs already in the bator, I have sebright and silkie eggs coming? Good thing I have the extra styro-bator for use as a hatcher... lol.

 

[FortCluck]

I'm adding more bantam Brahma eggs and bantam polish eggs today. I want to try to get a solid group hatched to choose from.

 

[Stonewall Acres]

All 6 of the eggs that made it to lockdown hatched. Our bantam silkie hatched out 2 & the other 4 were in the incubator. Unfortunately the only pure BCM chick passed just a few minutes after hatching.
It looks like our buff polish rooster managed to be successful at least once. The rest seem to be offspring of our BCM roo. Barnyard mixes are so fun. I only have a picture of the 3 babies from the brooder, as mamma Opal is not letting me get too close to her 2 babies.

 

[SueT]

And now there are 5 (out of 9 eggs)

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Ameraucana has a pea comb, is cold tolerant but not heat (according to the wiki). Instead of listing breeds, as they all are good for something. May I suggest looking at pea and rose comb breeds. The rose comb is still large, but not tall. Here is my Silver Wyandotte, he has a rose comb

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Love your set up with the electric net fence and wheeled coop! I wanted to make a coop like that last year from a Justin Rhodes design. What birds are in the other pen, and what’s the tote with a small hole used for?

 

[Knighstar679]

Ameraucana has a pea comb, is cold tolerant but not heat (according to the wiki). Instead of listing breeds, as they all are good for something. May I suggest looking at pea and rose comb breeds. The rose comb is still large, but not tall. Here is my Silver Wyandotte, he has a rose comb

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Thank you for the suggestion. I think the pea comb breeds might be the right ones for me. I know every breed has great things about them, so that part would be hard to find a correct answer for me.

 

[Knighstar679]

Manda after Mandalorian looks like his helmet

I like it! Might do Mando instead of Manda as they call him that a lot.