**~~>>Second Annual Cinco de Mayo Turkey Hatchathon<<~~**all poultry welcome!

[ronott1]

Quote: I will have to watch that! Wax Myrtle keeps becoming Was Myrtle! That one is a fix commonly miss spelled words thing.

 

[QuirkySue]

Dang! A couple weeks ago when I was looking for turkey eggs there were none to be found. Tonight I find ads on CL for $2 Bronze eggs. I have absolutely zero knowledge of turkeys but now I kinda want some. There were quail eggs too $8/doz or 2 doz for $10. I have no idea if those are good prices. Too bad my incubator is full until May 5th!

 

[Mahonri]

Well, this weekend I'm going to be real nice.

Over my five years on BYC, I've had folks here on BYC be VERY nice to me, (The Sheriff, kathyinmo, laree, NotAFarm, SCG, pasofinofarm, and many others etc..) so I'm passing it on. I can no longer keep roos so.....

There is an FFA group in the East Valley that are looking for "project chickens".

So, they will be picking up my entire flock of Icelandics. 1 pretty roo and 9 hens/pullets.

I got them originally to help preserve the breed. While I love watching them and their antics and they are most certainly "EYE CANDY"... with the gorgeous young roo crowing to beat the band each morning and doing nothing yet with the ladies, I decided I'd let them go where I know they'll stay pure and this land race chicken will be preserved.

My wife will miss those pretty little white eggs, (they lay almost as well as my leghorns) but they are going to a greater good.

So to the rest of you... continue passing forward the good!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Mahonri, I hate to break it to ya Sweetheart but you live in PHX. You don't NEED a hen to incubate eggs in PHX. Seriously, 15 minutes is nothing.

I've had hens in the middle of Maine winter get back on the wrong nest. Eggs were stone cold when I got home. They hatched.

Well, this weekend I'm going to be real nice.

Over my five years on BYC, I've had folks here on BYC be VERY nice to me, (The Sheriff, kathyinmo, laree, NotAFarm, SCG, pasofinofarm, and many others etc..) so I'm passing it on. I can no longer keep roos so.....

There is an FFA group in the East Valley that are looking for "project chickens".

So, they will be picking up my entire flock of Icelandics. 1 pretty roo and 9 hens/pullets.

I got them originally to help preserve the breed. While I love watching them and their antics and they are most certainly "EYE CANDY"... with the gorgeous young roo crowing to beat the band each morning and doing nothing yet with the ladies, I decided I'd let them go where I know they'll stay pure and this land race chicken will be preserved.

My wife will miss those pretty little white eggs, (they lay almost as well as my leghorns) but they are going to a greater good.

So to the rest of you... continue passing forward the good!

 

[Tammy N]

Quote:
they can be fertilized.. but not necessarily develop

i had a duck in with a rooster for a while (long story.. not for breeding though the roo certainly worked at it).. every egg was fertile.. nothing ever developed beyond a giant bullseye.. mainly because the chromosome count doesn't add up

even if one of the hybrids did start to develop many times they will die before incubation is complete.. and the few who do hatch rarely live beyond a few months
What Breed was the Hen ? Sounds like your Roo is Needing more guinnies or Hes having that Feeling all the girls are his what gonna happen when the chicks hatch if they do . PRomise photos

 

[Wax Myrtle]

I will have to watch that! Wax Myrtle keeps becoming Was Myrtle! That one is a fix commonly miss spelled words thing.

Lol!

 

[Wax Myrtle]

I have anotherbroody. And evil, she is. I'm lucky I didn't pull back a bleeding bone stump. :lol

I really don't need more chicks, especially since I have nobody set up for breeding any more, all I have are mixed LF and bantam mutt eggs. What to do, what to do... I *could* give her a couple of the duck eggs I have in the bator. Or... I could steal a couple from under my other broody. That idea has merit. Will the mothering switch tick over after only two weeks of broodiness?

 

[Pkillian]

You folks all speak in some sort of a strange code. What the heck. Have fun.

 

[NotAFarm]

Well, this weekend I'm going to be real nice.

Over my five years on BYC, I've had folks here on BYC be VERY nice to me, (The Sheriff, kathyinmo, laree, NotAFarm, SCG, pasofinofarm, and many others etc..) so I'm passing it on. I can no longer keep roos so.....

There is an FFA group in the East Valley that are looking for "project chickens".

So, they will be picking up my entire flock of Icelandics. 1 pretty roo and 9 hens/pullets.

I got them originally to help preserve the breed. While I love watching them and their antics and they are most certainly "EYE CANDY"... with the gorgeous young roo crowing to beat the band each morning and doing nothing yet with the ladies, I decided I'd let them go where I know they'll stay pure and this land race chicken will be preserved.

My wife will miss those pretty little white eggs, (they lay almost as well as my leghorns) but they are going to a greater good.

So to the rest of you... continue passing forward the good!

Mahonri, This is a great thing you are doing! Perhaps, many new flocks will be established from the exposure the FFA group will be able to give to them...........and......you'll always have a local source for a good layer for your own flock.

CdM update

• haven't candled yet........so
• will have to see if I have any sweet and sour broody photos
• it is pouring again today, maybe I need to stick one of the chickens outisde in a wire cage to get a wet chicken photo

 

[SilkieSensation]

Mahonri, This is a great thing you are doing! Perhaps, many new flocks will be established from the exposure the FFA group will be able to give to them...........and......you'll always have a local source for a good layer for your own flock.

CdM update

• haven't candled yet........so
• will have to see if I have any sweet and sour broody photos
• it is pouring again today, maybe I need to stick one of the chickens outisde in a wire cage to get a wet chicken photo

No need to stick them out in the rain around here. The goofballs do it all on their own.