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

[SilkieSensation]

Quote: I think the last time I mentioned it was during the Easter hatch, but I am! I'm on my last month and 2 weeks, so this is my next to last hatch until after SJ is born. Then it's back to business as usual!
Yep, I saw her baby belly in the video of her opening my egg bomb.

 

[yinepu]

Ummmm, yea...him

My silly scovies haven't decided to fork over the eggs yet, but they just came out of the little quarantine cage in the basement last week & went out to the pen. So give them a little time to settle in & hopefully they will be handing them over soon. I have a white trio, a chocolate pied hen, a black pied pair & a barred pied hen. They all run together & the black pied drake is a bit young to do anything yet so everyone is covered by the white drake at the moment. I know the 1 white hen & the chocolate pied are under a year old so probably aren't ready to lay yet, but the older white hen, the black pied & the barred pied should be laying any time. Hard to tell what colors may pop up because all of them came from multi-colored flocks (2 separate flocks, so different bloodlines to mix).

lol.. if you lived closer I would have to try to get one made for ya!

When you start finding fertile eggs.. let me know... I'm always on the lookout for new scovy bloodlines!

 

[SilkieSensation]

Quote: I haven't found ANY eggs, let alone fertile ones from them yet. But I will put you on the list!

 

[chickenpooplady]

Hi everyone! I did not set any eggs so I don't think I can officially join this hatchathon but is it okay if I just follow along to learn as much as I can? I will be like a sponge. Just quietly soaking up all the information!

 

[Hurley]

Poults make the cutest peeps, chitters, and twittles. I love them. They seem to have the hang of eating, been pigging out at the food bar all day. LOL




Got some photos of my Aussies today, thought I'd share.

This is DeBakey, the 10 month old pup. She's really starting to look like a big dog, now.





This is Monet, 1 1/2 years, so pretty.





and this is Miss Riley, grandma to Monet, great aunt to DeBakey, looking pretty good for 10 1/2 years old.






The girls will all be headed down to St. Louis for the week to the USASA Nationals at Purina Farms. Riley is stoked to get to be a show dog again, she's entered in 10 and over veterans.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

BEAUTIFUL!!!

 

[gryeyes]

Poults also "whut" to you (and to themselves, to each other, at something they see). Before somebody else Last CdM Hatchathon spelled it that way, I was calling them "little hooters.". I had two poults.

Then one day, whilst my contractor was working on screening the porch, the poults did something cute. I said, fondly, "Oh, come here and look at my little hooters!"

The look he gave me was priceless.

I now refer to the turkeys by name.

 

[yinepu]

Quote: I haven't found ANY eggs, let alone fertile ones from them yet. But I will put you on the list!

 

[yinepu]

Poults make the cutest peeps, chitters, and twittles. I love them. They seem to have the hang of eating, been pigging out at the food bar all day. LOL




Got some photos of my Aussies today, thought I'd share.


The girls will all be headed down to St. Louis for the week to the USASA Nationals at Purina Farms. Riley is stoked to get to be a show dog again, she's entered in 10 and over veterans.

you have some beauties there

 

[Mahonri]

I can't believe I want to candle already... and it's only been four days.

I'll wait until the 25th and then I'll give all of you the 10 day report. I'm guessing already that I'll be removing 3 of the eight, but my broody is so faithful and just keeps all 8 eggs right underneath her.

I've had good luck and bad luck with broodies in the past. My very first broody had eight eggs. 5 made it to lockdown and not even one pipped. They all died in the shell. Then I had a broody once that had 12 eggs and she hatched 9. Most broodies I let sit on golf balls and then I put chicks under them.

This is the first that I've used as an incubator in two years.

Can't wait until May 6th!