May 2020 Hatch-A-Long

[Vantic]

Yes, now that I look it up you're correct. We have SO many birds, it could belong to anyone!

Hatch it...

 

[Vantic]

Found some Narragansett eggs locally

Theyll be heading into the incubator Tuesday. Only getting 6 eggs, so fingers crossed we get a few. Really only want a Tom and maybe one or two females. We shall see!

Surprising my son tomorrow to pick them up. It’s a 3 hour or more drive. Going to tell him to bring gloves and boots, we’re picking up broken filler concrete lol. He hates loading concrete! Then we’ll show up on this lady’s farm and meet the turkeys

Heres dad...
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These babies are from March hatchalong. 3 Deatherlayers, 2 Silver Spitzhaubens and the rest are Silkie bantam/Sebright crosses, a few Russian Orloff/Sebright crosses in there too.

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Moved outside without a lamp! Proud of myself, as I normally leave a heat lamp outside for a month or more lol
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Cute chicks and most people do leave the heat too long. I get more questions about when to move them out. This year, at five weeks the heritage birds were fully feathered. Put them out in a tractor, snowed the next day. The chicks didn't care.

 

[BertyRoux]

Hatch it...

With my luck it's a sparrow egg those little boogers try to destroy the eaves on our house every year!

 

[Vantic]

I'm excited, tomorrow is day 7. Candle day.

Why is incubating eggs so appealing? Sucks you right in.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Of my hatched chicks, I gave 7 to a nice family with 3 school age children. Their first birds. asked about their set up and gave suggestions and told them to call if they have questions. I think they got 3 bielefelder or SS mix F, 2 australorp mix F, one GLW F, and one male bielefelder.

 

[Minky]

It really is, isnt it?

I am on day 9 and I candled half on day 7 and half on day 8. I am taking the night off. LOL
Those are really cute chicks. I want a Spitzhauben. They crack me up. Have you had them before? are they ok layers? I hear they are great foragers and a bit "wild" which would suit me fine. My hens need a few good foragers ... I give mine a worm from the garden and they all look at me like him nuts. (I have 3 hens out of 21 that will eat a worm!!) Crazy.

We have a robin who always nests in the dumbest place under the overhang of our main floor... but we rebuilt our house last year, and the only thing left there are the water lines that go to heat the pool.... she built her nest on the water lines!! Its insane... anyways, there are 4 gorgeous blue eggs in there. Now I know that if she cant hatch them, I can!

 

[CindyinSD]

Yes, now that I look it up you're correct. We have SO many birds, it could belong to anyone!

Set it!!!

 

[CindyinSD]

Set it!!!

Sparrow eggs

 

[BertyRoux]

Set it!!!

If only I needed a house bird! Technically raising it would be illegal if it did hatch much like keeping the 8 tiny abandoned ducklings I found wandering around in the driveway after a big storm last year. I had to put them in my coat pockets, there were so many, and I debated raising them for a while. Took them to the wildlife sanctuary the next day and they were quite impressed with my brooder set up!

Oh - I also found a local source (20 mins or so) for hatching eggs, once I see how this run goes/when I'm ready for some new blood. Black copper marans and OE's and I think they had some EE's too!

 

[mandi427]

We put 12 eggs in our new incubator on Saturday! Never hatched out our own eggs before, so it will be an interesting experiment. The eggs are blue cochin (roo) mixed with either silver laced wyandotte or light brahma. Hatch day should be May 9.