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

[debs_flock]

Some one please egg bomb me with those silver campines..my address is

Crazy chicken lady
12345 chicken coop corner
Hiding from hubby hollow, ok 98765

Hmmmm....what else...what else....senior moments...

Or Blonde moment change of topic.....
I keep candeling but don't see any veins in the turkey eggs. Only 6 days but normally I see veins by now in chicken eggs. Should I be worried?

LOL. DH calls me the Chicken Lady.......................in the last few days, I've had 120+ chicks hatch...................in the incubator there is still 120+ chicken eggs, 60 turkey eggs, 20 duck eggs and last night I set another shelf in the cabinet. I told him I now officially qualify as Crazy Chicken Lady. I need to put together a CL ad. Unfortunately a lot of the new chicks were just for ME!

I candled about 40 of the turkey eggs last night, around 35 are developing...................5 turkey tester eggs are due next weekend. That was 5 out of 5, I think they passed the fertility test.

 

[SilkieSensation]

Yeah, we used a small litter box dug down into the shavings with a brick on the inside and outside to help them get in and out. It worked for the first week or so, then they got too big to contain the splashing mess. I also used a tupperware top the second time I brooded under their water dish. Every little bit helps.

Mine go to the wire bottomed cages in the basement as soon as they are big enough to walk on the wire, but they go n the chick brooder before that. I'm constantly scooping soggy litter from under the waterer.

 

[tommysgirl]

Apparently, I can't read my own notes. I have 4 Brabanters & 3 GLB's. My eggs are marked Br & BB, so when I saw Br, I thought Brabanter! LOL

Brabanters and BLBs....swoon

Oh Wisher.....................................

Look what my two egg test hatch produced...........

And I really think (IMO) it is difficult to find a breed of chick with more striking markings.

(They're silver campines)

They are the cutest, Deb do you have pics of Golden Campine babies?

Here is a picture of my sexlink chicks

are the boys lighter? Looks like you got more than your share of them whatever they are

ETA you already answered! It's the old head dot not the feather color...blue sex links???? AWESOME!!!

 

[tommysgirl]

Puffs of gold and blue
Fuzzy muffs and bearded chins
Ameraucanas

Nice One! Very visual!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Mine go to the wire bottomed cages in the basement as soon as they are big enough to walk on the wire, but they go n the chick brooder before that. I'm constantly scooping soggy litter from under the waterer.

Last time I had my banty brood the ducklings outside. That was WONDERFUL. She's doing it again this year for me. I only put 2 under her... but that should replace what the fox killed recently.

 

[Lotsapaints]

I hatched 76 chicks yesterday I took them out banded most of them sold 6 still have more banding to do so I can put them in the big brooder sadly most of these are for me too and I am going to put in more eggs today then as the weeks go by the chicks will be for other people thank goodness. I am hatching for roosters in a couple of breeds so I will have pullets to sell but I can't tell yet who is who.....I think most of my "sex links" I made were boys probably mostly girls in the breeds I need roosters but I want to candle my eggs I have some turkeys hatching later this week

 

[debs_flock]

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I do (have to find one on my computer). They are VERY similar, just slightly more yellowish. It's easy to confuse the two until the feathers start to come in.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

OMG look at all the beautiful chicks!!! YAYA!!!!



The ones I had in lockdown are all finished, I lost one blue silkie that was malpositioned : (



ABOVE.... Our first WHITE silkie chicks! (along with a partridge) <3 YAY I don't have to trim butts!



Below.... yup Blue/Gold Partridge Brahma! the 5 that just hatched!

 

[SilkieSensation]

Last time I had my banty brood the ducklings outside. That was WONDERFUL. She's doing it again this year for me. I only put 2 under her... but that should replace what the fox killed recently.

I've been trying to talk some of mine into going broody but no such luck.

OMG look at all the beautiful chicks!!! YAYA!!!!



The ones I had in lockdown are all finished, I lost one blue silkie that was malpositioned : (



ABOVE.... Our first WHITE silkie chicks! (along with a partridge) <3 YAY I don't have to trim butts!



Below.... yup Blue/Gold Partridge Brahma! the 5 that just hatched!

I need some of your Brahma eggs...lol

 

[Wax Myrtle]

Whoot! 100% developing! I love candling white eggs. So fun to be able to see embryos!