NY chicken lover!!!!

[Chickens14]

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

I'm on the northern tip of Lake Ontario/St Lawrence River!

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[Joyryder]

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Welcome to BYC!!!

Tell us about your chicken addiction!

Joanne

 

[AmyJ]

Well we have a chick! It must have hatched sometime last night/ this morning.My broody is being a great Mom! Its a bantam and its the tiniest little thing! I didnt really get a great look yet, I didnt want to disturb Mom too much , but I will take some pics soon, hopefully the rest will hatch too!!

 

[Chickens14]

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Congrads!!

 

[AmyJ]

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Congrads!!

Thanks! Oh it is adorable, I got to get a better look

And one of the d uccle eggs is pipping!!

 

[Joyryder]

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C O N G R A T S

Now you have lots of chicks!

 

[AmyJ]

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C O N G R A T S


Now you have lots of chicks!

8 so far now lol, with 3 more eggs to go!! I am definitley just going to let broodies hatch from now on lol, Shes already doing a better job than me at hatching! The kids will be so excited when they get home from school!!

 

[Joyryder]

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Oh and I was going to ask you to help me hatch some. I have 30 eggs being delivered Sat am I hope, but I only have room for 24.
I would hate to eat $8 worth of eggs.
Joanne

 

[AmyJ]

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Oh and I was going to ask you to help me hatch some. I have 30 eggs being delivered Sat am I hope, but I only have room for 24.
I would hate to eat $8 worth of eggs.
Joanne

Wow!!!

Thats a lot of eggs!!!! Are they all blue plymouth rocks? Or a mix? I would say not a problem, but my little incubator stinks. I have had nothing hatch out of it , and I tried it 2 times. I think it would only fit 3 or 4 large eggs too. The only ones I got to hatch were in a homemade incubator, but not a very good hatch rate at all either.

I'm not very confident in my hatching abilities, until I get a really good incubator!

Do you have any broodies? The only one I have going to be broody soon is my mallard duck lol. Shes made a nest and is laying her eggs in there. I dont know how many she will lay till she thinks she has enough, but should be soon I would think. So if you want we could stick them in the nest, and have her hatch them. Duck eggs take 28 days, so the chickens would hatch sooner and we would just take them out. Thats the only idea I have lol.