Shark snipers Wine dots NEW HATCHES and puppies 1/24/2011 update

[LovinMyPeeps]

Yah no kidding, talk about learning vicariously through others

I never thought about putting the thermo on the wire... duh metal conducts the heat bleh... then figured out ooooh put it on the eggs. Never got an instruction sheet with my first bator. YOU guys are my instruction sheet

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

I know y'all are going to bed, but had to share. I had to candle again, since it's day four really today. Big difference from yesterday!!!

5 of 6 have veining!!! Even one of the eggs that was like 12 days old is veining! Both middle aged eggs and both very fresh ones are all good. Only the second 12 day old egg still appears totally clear. And I'm glad it's there because it helped me see the obvious difference.

Yayyy!!! I might get some babies from my girls after all! It's still early, but I feel more hopeful today! These are going to be some very welcome mutt babies if they hatch!

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

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This is only my second hatch, but I started with a dry hatch first, and it seems like normal to me. Do wine dots take more humidity? I know some folks say Marans do. The olive eggs thrived in dry. 3 of 4 developed fully. One died after pip, but I think it was my fault. The other never started.

 

[chickenlittle32]

Awwww....again, sorry for the loss....just never knew what breeds....


Another question...any certain breeds you looking to get?

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

I am open to any breed really. I'm like a kid with the Sears catalogue and I want one of everything. I loved the cochins, and I love colored eggs. I have had Ameracaunas and Cuckoo Marans in the past. It's fun having the prettiest eggs at the Farmer's Market each year. I have also had Polish, but that's the one breed I wasn't crazy about. But it may have just been the two I had. They were... strange. Behavior wise I mean. My plan before losing all my hens was add olive eggers and silkies this year. So I definately want those. Silkies mainly because I want the natural broodies and the one that did hatch is soooo sweet. Best chicken I ever had as far as personality. But I am open to anything that isn't mean. And I don't care if they are mixed. With chickens, if they are nice, it doesn't matter what they look like to me. And I've only had one that I could not make nice. She was a PR hen, and the coyote got her. She was a real snot. I know, respect for the departed and all (as my granny used to admonish me), but she could be a booger. And usually was.

I will confess hoping to beat someone who shall remain nameless at the county fair this year with this olive egger roo I have. And I don't know if I'll get any olive eggs by October, but if I do, they are going in, too, because the olives around here are "washed out". Sonew's are rich, deep colored. I'm gonna dominate when we start getting eggs!!

Wow. You didn't ask for all that, did you?

Edit to add: I bought the PR hen as a RIR but she never looked like a RIR. Someone told me she was PR. So that's what I went with. But according to the hatchery, she was RIR.

 

[aceschix]

I just got done candling...I have good news and bad.

Good is 11/12 moltted Javas going strong.
4/4 Olive eggs
4/5 BCM/Olives (1?)
9/12 BCM (2?)
6/6 Cochins
1/1 My EE/Cochin mix

But 13/15 Welsummers quit!

Why would that many quit. It can not be my bator there were 55 eggs in there! I was really looking forward to the wellies!! I am so sad for them. They were dirty but I had dirty eggs in my last hatch the came out fine...??

 

[chickenlittle32]

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Chickens are an addiction aren't they? haha

I agree about Natalie's OE's...such a great color to them!

How is the new incubator coming? Hope it does its job with all those eggs coming lol How many does it hold and have you filled them?

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

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Sorry about the Welsummers. But wonderful news on the others. With them doing so well it seems like the Welsummers should have done as well I would think.

 

[blessedchickenmama7]

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Chickens are an addiction aren't they? haha

I agree about Natalie's OE's...such a great color to them!

How is the new incubator coming? Hope it does its job with all those eggs coming lol How many does it hold and have you filled them?

So far so good on the bator. It can hold 40 eggs on one level and hubby thinks he can get two levels on it. However, I am in no way set up to keep 80 chicks in the house!! My brooder is always in the schoolroom until they are a couple weeks old. Then it moves to the laundry room when they are hardier. I haven't put the three 6 weekers out yet but do take them out in the grass and let them scratch and peck. If I had 80 chicks (know they won't all hatch, but still) in my house, my husband would divorce me. He's tolerant, but ...

Still need to get a fan for the bator though. We did that last time after we had the thing holding temps close to where we wanted it and then just tweaked the thermostat.

 

[sonew123]

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thanks Brindle you guys were chatter buggers while I got kicked off the net last night-DH had to use the computer

Blessed -would you prefer the eggs from the anonomous person to come in a few weeks or right now???

Carrie-congrats on your babies hatching cant wait for more updates!!!!