Miscellaneous Meeps - Hatching my Dreams

[GreenJay]

May I adopt SFH-17 please? And maybe the bantam-98 also?

 

[2ndTink]

May I adopt SFH-17 please? And maybe the bantam-98 also?

Absolutely!

 

[CoopBoots]

Happy weekend, chickadoos! But no time off from growing; you can do this!

 

[2ndTink]

To keep my list manageable I have all the layer breeds in the previous post and this is for just the silkies and bantams.

Debbie's silkies:
34
37
39
40 ?
41
42
43
45
48 ?
49

My silkies:
Chocolate hen
75
76
77
78
79
80
81 ?
82
83
84
85
Partridge hen
86
88
89 ?
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97

Bantam:
98 @GreenJay
106
108

 

[GreenJay]

grow little chickies grow!
Go sfh-17 and bantam-98!

Okay, gonna need names now....

 

[2ndTink]

Today is Day 9! I set 109 eggs and we have 76 developing, which is 70% developing.

10 of the 16 from Debbie are growing with 2 being questionable. Some of the air cells are pretty mangled so it looks like they had a rough ride by USPS. If I discerned which eggies were Betsy's, all 5 are developing! Wowza 1 is questionable but I had ones I questioned last time hatch perfectly so I'm not getting worried yet

Here's a summary by breed / pen / or breeder. This will be # developing / # questionable/ # total eggs. The # developing will be inclusive of the questionable ones.
Ermine 5/0/13
SFH 17/0/20
Piper 10/2/16
Fizzy 10/3/12
Chonkers 9/0/13
Frida 11/0/11 (wow!)
Sylvi 11/1/12
Ameraucana Bantam 1/0/2
GN 0/0/6
Mixed bantam 2/0/3

The incubators are running well, my Advance is running a little off from the set temp, it was too high at the start but now I'm finding I've had to bump it back up trying to get to that magical 99.5.

Once I remove the clears I'm contemplating setting a few more Fizzy eggs as we have parted ways with him and only have 6 eggs from him and the BAs developing. Need? No, but... we'll see. Hubby and I are discussing after work today, he sure loved that mean old rooster.

 

[CoopBoots]

Good Morning, Babies! Let's rise and shine!

 

[CrazyChickLady64]

As I'm heading into my second hatch for the year, I wanted to begin a thread documenting this hatch, and hopefully future hatches, as well as follow my grow outs. I'm working to get a few pens set up to breed silkies to the SOP and also begin a journey with Swedish Flower Hens and Ermines. We will still have a mixed layer flock and likely a few totally adorable bantams, we currently have 2 little Ameraucana bantam chicks and may have a few more hatching out to join them soon!

I have 10 silkies growing out from two different breeders that are 8 and 14 weeks old give or take a week or two, 1 light blue, 4 splash, and 5 silver based black from paint breeding.

In January I hatched out 5 silkie chicks from a breeder, 1 chocolate, 1 chocolate paint (say what!?!!!!), 1 blue, 2 blacks, 1 splash, 3 Swedish Flower Hens, and the 2 Ameraucana bantams, a bunch of silkies from my flock and a couple layer cross chicks. The hatch % was very low, maybe half the eggs I set were viable, and I had more quitters than I was expecting. I have since changed the feed (at the start of winter I moved them to an organic feed, and found out that it didn't have much in the way of vitamins for my girls), and I'm not using the NR360 where most of the quitters happened which was were the bulk of the eggs from my flock were. I had the breeder's eggs in the Brinsea and only had 1 quitter per breeder's set of eggs.

I set the following eggs this morning:
13 Ermine / black
20 SFH
16 extra special silkies from @Debbie292d (there was 1 egg-trocity by USPS)
8 Fizzy the EE / Black Australorp
4 Fizzy the EE / Barred Rock
1 Dark Brahma
8 Chonkers / EE
4 Chonkers / Brown eggs (BR, BA, RIR)
11 Blue satin / chocolate
12 Blue satin / blue partridge
2 Ameraucana bantams
6 D'Uccles
3 D'Uccles / silkie

It is still early in the season so I'm not sure what % will start, we will know next Saturday!

My dream is to have breeder / show quality silkies in black, blue, splash, maybe a paint at some point, and for fun, chocolates. I also plan to hatch out these Ermines and SFH's and work on setting up, small, but high quality, breeding pens for them as well. The Fizzy / BA chicks should be great layers, the BA's are my oldest hens and still laying well as 4 year olds, and the EE hens Fizzy came with are also very consistent layers, so I'm hoping for very healthy and consistent layers that will lay some shade of pale blue or minty green.

They sound wonderful hope your hatches are 100% would love to see pictures of them all

 

[TwoCrows]

Today is Day 9! I set 109 eggs and we have 76 developing, which is 70% developing.

10 of the 16 from Debbie are growing with 2 being questionable. Some of the air cells are pretty mangled so it looks like they had a rough ride by USPS. If I discerned which eggies were Betsy's, all 5 are developing! Wowza 1 is questionable but I had ones I questioned last time hatch perfectly so I'm not getting worried yet

Here's a summary by breed / pen / or breeder. This will be # developing / # questionable/ # total eggs. The # developing will be inclusive of the questionable ones.
Ermine 5/0/13
SFH 17/0/20
Piper 10/2/16
Fizzy 10/3/12
Chonkers 9/0/13
Frida 11/0/11 (wow!)
Sylvi 11/1/12
Ameraucana Bantam 1/0/2
GN 0/0/6
Mixed bantam 2/0/3

The incubators are running well, my Advance is running a little off from the set temp, it was too high at the start but now I'm finding I've had to bump it back up trying to get to that magical 99.5.

Once I remove the clears I'm contemplating setting a few more Fizzy eggs as we have parted ways with him and only have 6 eggs from him and the BAs developing. Need? No, but... we'll see. Hubby and I are discussing after work today, he sure loved that mean old rooster.

Good day eggies! Good to hear lots of you are growing. Let's keep it up, no slackers in the growing department!

 

[Debbie292d]

Today is Day 9! I set 109 eggs and we have 76 developing, which is 70% developing.

10 of the 16 from Debbie are growing with 2 being questionable. Some of the air cells are pretty mangled so it looks like they had a rough ride by USPS. If I discerned which eggies were Betsy's, all 5 are developing! Wowza 1 is questionable but I had ones I questioned last time hatch perfectly so I'm not getting worried yet

Here's a summary by breed / pen / or breeder. This will be # developing / # questionable/ # total eggs. The # developing will be inclusive of the questionable ones.
Ermine 5/0/13
SFH 17/0/20
Piper 10/2/16
Fizzy 10/3/12
Chonkers 9/0/13
Frida 11/0/11 (wow!)
Sylvi 11/1/12
Ameraucana Bantam 1/0/2
GN 0/0/6
Mixed bantam 2/0/3

The incubators are running well, my Advance is running a little off from the set temp, it was too high at the start but now I'm finding I've had to bump it back up trying to get to that magical 99.5.

Once I remove the clears I'm contemplating setting a few more Fizzy eggs as we have parted ways with him and only have 6 eggs from him and the BAs developing. Need? No, but... we'll see. Hubby and I are discussing after work today, he sure loved that mean old rooster.

I'm sorry Tink, I should have snapped a photo of these I just sold right before that as they looked so much prettier. I think you saw them though. Yell if you didn't and I'll paste them here as these are indicative to what you'll get.

Basically, it was 1 white one, 2 off-white ones, 1 gray/blue, and 3 chocolates or dark. I presume the white one is going to be like Marsha, and the off-white ones mauve or mauve splash. That blue one could have been a splash too. I told the gal that bought them some are sexed due to color genetics, and she didn't want to know.