Sigh.... Now with Pics! pg 5

[insiderart]

Ooo we have liftoff! One little black silkie (I think it's a silkie or a sizzle not sure which). Yay!!

 

[insiderart]

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Pics??? Showgirls??

These are white, black, splash silkies, sizzles, and silkie feathered easter eggers.

The showgirls are due out Friday!

So exciting!!

 

[2txmedics]

Oh how beautiful~~what kind of babies are they????

 

[Paganbird]

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Good luck with your hatch!

Mine doesn't look so good... I don't think the 2 pea eggs are gonna hatch. Tomorrow morning is trash day... I'll pip them and see. With my luck, they're probably not even fertile.

 

[insiderart]

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Good luck with your hatch!

Mine doesn't look so good... I don't think the 2 pea eggs are gonna hatch. Tomorrow morning is trash day... I'll pip them and see. With my luck, they're probably not even fertile.

Awwwwww

 

[Paganbird]

That's ok.
I have the 2 peachicks already... and the nice people in the peafowl section told me it looks like I may have one of each gender! Hooray!
Aaaaaannnnd... I have my silkies and sizzles. My husband has taken 2 for "his chickens" and named them. So, we have Elizabeth Taylor the black sizzle and Toodee the blue silkie. I never thought my husband to be the chicken type... let alone the silkie type.
LOL!
We just sold the extras, frizzles & cochins, today... that leaves us with 40 chickens & 2 peafowl. That's quite enough! (And I still have 3 pea eggs in the bator due mid-month.)

 

[tmpshrty96]

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what is stagger hatching???

 

[insiderart]

Stagger hatching is where you have developing eggs in the incubator with different hatch dates. You have to remove the hatching eggs to a hatcher on the 18th. It's more time consuming, and you have to create a system for yourself. But your incubator and hatcher pretty much run continuously.... it's a sickness.

 

[Paganbird]

Staggering a hatch is when you have different batches of chicks at different stages of incubation all going at the same time. You could have hatches staggered so that you have a hatch every week... instead of waiting 21 (or 28 or whatever) days and then starting a new one.

 

[tmpshrty96]

oh ok i get it now thanks