"Springing in the Chicks" 2016 April Hatch-a-Long Hosted by Mike & Sally

[BantyChooks]

I function purely on sarcasm and caffeine. 

Plus, you never fall asleep on the road. I learned that the hard way....

 

[Chaos18]

MY DUCKS ARE HATCHING!!!!!!!!! Was gonna do lockdown tomorrow evening so I did my routine check of the bator and added a touch of water. Than I heard a cheep cheep. Upon closer inspection one of the Ancona had an external pip. Oh crap better raise the humidity and get that turner out as well. Did a quick candle of them and saw 2-3 internal pips on more ducks. e I'm gonna have ducklings soon e

 

[LocalYokel]

MY DUCKS ARE HATCHING!!!!!!!!! Was gonna do lockdown tomorrow evening so I did my routine check of the bator and added a touch of water. Than I heard a cheep cheep. Upon closer inspection one of the Ancona had an external pip. Oh crap better raise the humidity and get that turner out as well. Did a quick candle of them and saw 2-3 internal pips on more ducks.

I'm gonna have ducklings soon

 

[Watermelon123]

Quote: I don't drive for a living, I just go on road trips between Ohio and New York around every three months. Sometimes I go to Michigan and once to Connecticut.

 

[Watermelon123]

MY DUCKS ARE HATCHING!!!!!!!!! Was gonna do lockdown tomorrow evening so I did my routine check of the bator and added a touch of water. Than I heard a cheep cheep. Upon closer inspection one of the Ancona had an external pip. Oh crap better raise the humidity and get that turner out as well. Did a quick candle of them and saw 2-3 internal pips on more ducks.

I'm gonna have ducklings soon

 

[firedragon1982]

Set 14 silkie eggs this morning, to go along with my Lav Cuckoo D'Anvers eggs and Golden Necked D'Uccle eggs. Now I just need a bantam coop....

 

[mamahmendez]

MY DUCKS ARE HATCHING!!!!!!!!! Was gonna do lockdown tomorrow evening so I did my routine check of the bator and added a touch of water. Than I heard a cheep cheep. Upon closer inspection one of the Ancona had an external pip. Oh crap better raise the humidity and get that turner out as well. Did a quick candle of them and saw 2-3 internal pips on more ducks. e I'm gonna have ducklings soon e

Yes!!! So exciting. Best luck and can't wait to see the cute ducklings!!!

Is everyone hatching Anconas? Is there something going on with Anconas I need to know about? I am hatching them beginning April 2nd-ish but I didn't know everyone was too. Good to kno I have peeps to ask for help!

 

[mamahmendez]

Incubation update - Day 12 of First Incubation
History: 12 eggs from neighbors farm
18 eggs from Farmers Market, sold as fertile
30 eggs set, Due 3/31 - 4/1 (I set late at night)

Current: 12 infertile, all Farmers Market (Egtopsy results)
11 Neighbor eggs seem to be developing, 1 Hard to tell Welsummer
6 Farmers Market appear to be developing

This is my daughters science project for her genius hour; compare hatching store eggs, farmers market eggs and micro/hobby farm eggs. At our store all egg brands said they were infertile so I didn't set them, I cracked them open and they were infertile. So far it is going great I think.

 

[Penny Hen]

I sold all my silkies except for a trio and one of the hens died this winter so I just have a pair. I'm working on hatching out more so I can hopefully add a couple more girls to that pen. I mainly got out of silkies because they are high maintenance and i'm just not able to take care of them properly. With as many as I had that is. I switched to LF. I have a trio of english orps. I have 2 mottled and a black. I also have 5 maran mixes I hatched last year and I bought 3 hens from the auction last year. One got sick and died right off. Then when I was checking the 2 remaining over for parasites and checking if nails needed to be trimmed I discovered I had a roo and a hen. One of them has spurs and was crowing. It looks like a hen unless you notice the spurs. I was getting 1 egg every other day for a long time and every once in a while I would find 2 eggs. Which had me scratching my head over. Then the other hen got sick and died and just before she died I got an egg up in the nest shelf. The sick hen couldn't even walk so I knew it wasn't her. After she died I was finding an egg every 2 days.That only means one thing. My roo isn't a roo. It's a hen with spurs. Her eggs are always very large/long and the shells are thin and bumpy. I was working on the shell quality before the hen died. Now I'm thinking the quality is because my hen/roo is a hen/roo.

Do you have any grey silkies? You can use those if your looking to try to keep the silver penciling. What other color is in the wyandotte besides silver penciled?

The heads of the hens are silver, the penciling is black and the base color between the penciling is dark gray. Some hints of grey/brown are in the dark grey. The male has more silver/white on the head and neck and hackles. Green/black tail, white shoulders green bar white wingtip and black chest.
I have no silkies at the moment so I was asking people who knew silkies what colors to pair with best. I don't know if I want to commit to taking the pattern all the way to a Silver Penciled Silkie but I think it could produce some beautiful crested birds.

 

[Penny Hen]

No!!


Sorry, I just get a liddle grossed out.... I know, no different than that hamburger or turkey dinner I chow down on. Just not ready fer that yet, I'm taking it 1 step at a time.... I'm a softie.

They still iz cute.

Well wait till you get one that grows up mean and ornery and then it is easier.