NY chicken lover!!!!

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Tomorrow is lock down for my duck eggs. Really nervous and excited. Some look like there are internal pips already. I hope that this hatch goes well!

They will all be out before you know it!! Enjoy your hatch!!!!!

 

[BusyBearMama]

These are my (7) 'mystery' eggs- I think the green one is probably an olive egger... But could be an isbar.... The other 6... ?? Any guesses? :-D

 

[rancher hicks]

kind of bummed....my cream legbar will be uncrested. i'm not sure why it makes me so mad i guess because i wanted a cute funky headed chicken booooo

Well then I'll take it, if it's too disappointing.

 

[demp4]

The pipping started a day early. This am 10 chicks come on chickies!

They can all stay in there up to 3 days while I wait for the others to hatch or not?

 

[Purpletie3]

The pipping started a day early. This am 10 chicks come on chickies!

They can all stay in there up to 3 days while I wait for the others to hatch or not?

Because they have absorbed the yolk sac it gives them a couple days grace. That's why day olds are shipped and sitting in a box for 2-3 +days and still arrive alive. In my experience with hatches...they are usually over quite quickly. You probably won't have a 3 day hatching spread unless you are hatching different varieties...like bantams who like to come early...

Longest I have had a chick from pip to exit was 28 hours. The quickest one...I missed he was so speedy! Best of luck here!!!!

 

[rancher hicks]

The pipping started a day early. This am 10 chicks come on chickies!

They can all stay in there up to 3 days while I wait for the others to hatch or not?

Yes. I always leave the chicks in the incubator til day three. Then move them to the brooder with their first drink being sugar water.

You must post pics, you know.

 

[Deckgirls]

Well then I'll take it, if it's too disappointing.

ha...nice try!!!

 

[Purpletie3]

ha...nice try!!!

newbie question...If your hens are laying blue...but, not idea if the roo hatched from a blue...and you hatch some of their offspring and they lay blue...isn't there a chance of throwing a brown somewhere always?

 

[Beer can]

My EE were laying green, one a buff bantam EE is dark olive. Started feeding them oyster shell a couple weeks ago, 'free choice' in a container attached to the side of the coop by their feed. Now I'm getting a blue egg! Anyone ever seen this?

 

[rancher hicks]

newbie question...If your hens are laying blue...but, not idea if the roo hatched from a blue...and you hatch some of their offspring and they lay blue...isn't there a chance of throwing a brown somewhere always?

I believe blue is a recessive gene so I don't think there will be brown eggs. None of my Ee's have ever thrown a brown egg.

My EE were laying green, one a buff bantam EE is dark olive. Started feeding them oyster shell a couple weeks ago, 'free choice' in a container attached to the side of the coop by their feed. Now I'm getting a blue egg! Anyone ever seen this?

The shade of an egg can affect the perceived color I think. Though I have had eggs that appear cream colored from my Delaware on occasion. I'm not sure which hen laid it and it doesn't happen often.