Setting (Again) April 16th-18th...

[Cattitude]

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Oh, I love Silkies! What a pretty fuzzy butt!

Reading this thread got me to thinking about... What DO I have in my incubators? So I counted.

Set:
April 9: 8 Japanese bantam
April 10: 12 Easter Eggers
April 12: 19 Australorps
2 Easter Eggers
8 Rosecomb bantam
April 16: 9 Chinese geese
2 Silkie-X
1 Rosecomb bantam
10 guinea
April 19: 2 Easter Eggers
1 Rosecomb bantam
April 22: 1 Easter Egger (don't know what I was thinking here, except the egg is a pretty shade of blue)
April 25: 18 guinea

This doesn't even count what my partner in Chicken Math has in his incubators!

 

[Cynthia12]

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Oh, I love Silkies! What a pretty fuzzy butt!

Reading this thread got me to thinking about... What DO I have in my incubators? So I counted.

Set:
April 9: 8 Japanese bantam
April 10: 12 Easter Eggers
April 12: 19 Australorps
2 Easter Eggers
8 Rosecomb bantam
April 16: 9 Chinese geese
2 Silkie-X
1 Rosecomb bantam
10 guinea
April 19: 2 Easter Eggers
1 Rosecomb bantam
April 22: 1 Easter Egger (don't know what I was thinking here, except the egg is a pretty shade of blue)
April 25: 18 guinea

This doesn't even count what my partner in Chicken Math has in his incubators!

Oh Cat, you just answered a question for me. I knew that the mom of these babies that are being born was a pure Australorp, and was told that the dad was a pure Silky...now I'll go ahead and embarrass myself..I didn't know that silkies had 5 toes.

So, a pure Australorp bred with a pure silky..should make for an interesting chicken. Wonder what kind of eggs they will lay..because, they are going to be girls you know..I'm going on the third and last one to hatch. The second one looks like a twin to the first. I can see through the pip, that the third one is also going to be black too...triplets! How fun..glad you replied to me.

 

[Cattitude]

I love my Silkies and Silkie crosses! I'm glad most of them have turned out to be hens, though, because the idea of eating a black-skinned chicken takes some getting used to. They're a delicacy in China. I've managed to give away most of the roosters to folks who like the way they look and whose flock can absorb an extra roo. Plus, mine are crossed with Ameraucana so they should carry the blue gene. I'm keeping all the 5-toed ones to mate with pure Silkies.

A Silkie-X-Australorp should lay a good-sized, light-to-medium brown egg. Depends on how dark the Australorp egg genes are. Our Australorps lay an egg that is as dark as most Welsummers. Pure Silkies lay a cream/off-white egg. You should get a good amount of eggs from your Silkie-X!

 

[snazzyboots]

i received some shipped eggs today. i set them in the basement. it is around 70 degrees. i candled tonite to make sure they were ok and it looks like a couple are developing. is that possible? if so are they going to keep going after shipping and being cold for all this time? has this happened to anyone? thanks

 

[Cynthia12]

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I think you are the first..other person than myself, that has said, I see something sooner than later. I will candle the next day..24 hrs...and will see an orange spot floating around. Never fails..when I see the spots, those are the ones that are fertile. Then, you won't see the spot on the third day..have to wait until the 4th or 5th day to see the little eyeball.
More eggs ey? You're as bad as me..and a few others around here... we love em don't we?

 

[Cynthia12]

Here's a picture of some eggs I have going into lock down tomorrow..then, the ones for the hatch along here will go into lock down the next week, the Nankins and Ameraucanas... these are barn yard mixes I guess..dad roo's are Welsummer, Coockoo Marans, Wheaton Ameraucana, the hens are RIR's, Ameraucanas..others...these will be fun to see the mix of colors.

 

[snazzyboots]

yup i have more eggs and more on the way. i have gone a little crazy with this but it is so awesome

 

[latebloomer]

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i'm trying to resist more eggs, so far so good

i hatched fifteen healthy chicks last time and i'm only planning on keeping around six hens, so why would i need any more hatching eggs...

 

[meepitqueenie]

had a temp spike last night, so trying to adjust it down. the embryos are probably making there own heat huh? grr. trying not to cook them. is it safer to have it more towards the 99.5 mark in a still are or higher? this am it was 2 notches above that. grr. so im trying to get it down to at least the 100 mark or one above that.

 

[snazzyboots]

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i'm trying to resist more eggs, so far so good

i hatched fifteen healthy chicks last time and i'm only planning on keeping around six hens, so why would i need any more hatching eggs...

I don't need more really but I only have 3 girls from last hatch and I wanted to try for more. Plus wanted to try for some other breeds too. Have a couple orp eggs and speckled Sussex in now and salmon favs and more orps and some more ee's