Here is my final selection
42 Eggs total
15 - EE x BO from our flock
13 - mix of brown egg layers x BO from our flock
I picked up 14 eggs from a BYC member who is 7 minutes away from me. Here is what she gave me.
12 - Ameraucana eggs from Percheron chick - Blue Wheaten Roo
2 - EE from Percheron chick - Blue Wheaten Roo X Cream Brabanters
So this am I loaded up the bator...
I was lucky enough to catch Little One (EE) and Safron (Wellie) right after lay, so I marked the eggs. I am hoping they hatch.
Now I will try to not to be a flippin nervous wreck! I am hoping everything goes well. What a great learning experience. I am so eggcited
So 28 eggs from our mixed flock all from Meyer. Our Roo is a BO and we have six different breeds of hens.
@autumnhearth loved the one year shots. We are coming up on a year with ours as well.
@christine9 congrats and how cute! I was hoping for a broody but ours are too caught up in being spring hickens eating anything green and chasing bugs. Nobody is serious about settin.
We won't know the breeds till they are older but you guys can take guesses we got the assorted rare breeds package. We got 20. One didn't make it. I thinks ours friends squished it on the way home. They are so cute and the black white and grey ones have feathers on their legs and feet. They bigger one is from my friend she hatched them two? Weeks ago
Good luck to you!!!! I'm terrible at hatching. My broody's already got me tied and she's still sitting on three more eggs. I, on the other hand, hatched three out of a total of about 55 or so.
So yes, there was another little one out there today! They are so darn cute following limabean around. Of course, she is frantic!
I'm thinking the three that hatched are all blue ameraucans. Although the one looks black, I'm pretty sure it was limabean's egg. Splash x black = blue Still have two eggs that will hatch as black ameraucas and one that will be an EE (assuming they do hatch). Too exciting!!!!
We won't know the breeds till they are older but you guys can take guesses we got the assorted rare breeds package. We got 20. One didn't make it. I thinks ours friends squished it on the way home. They are so cute and the black white and grey ones have feathers on their legs and feet. They bigger one is from my friend she hatched them two? Weeks ago
I would say the second one being held is a Light Brahma as well as the one with the dark grey back in the top left corner. I think the first chick is a Partridge Rock but there are a couple other possibilities. Looks like maybe one Welsummer and/or a Speckled Sussex, perhaps a few EEs, a few Buckeye(s) and/or RIR(s), a Golden Buff and/or New Hampshire.
These five arrived safely from Meyer early Tuesday morning, shipped overnight from Ohio to Iowa. The top picture is a Welsummer and Delaware, the bottom, from left to right, a Cream Legbar, Barnevelder, and one Meyer Meal Maker.
