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

[Chaos18]

And just like that there is a pip!

 

[mlm Mike]

And just like that there is a pip!

 

[Coreenelane]

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DITTO!!!!



Same here! Can't get enough and afraid I'll miss something important. Espesially on hatching chickens.so glad I am not alone!

So glad I am retired and get to stay home with the animals. The chickens are always glad to see me ( not really they just want fed)! Young ones at the basement wanting in because it's only in the 40's today. They go in a rubbermade tote for the night and I use small heavy coated wire on top. They snuggle together and are quite content. I offer water and feed before I go to bed. So yes these will be hard to unspoil. As soon as I get a dog kennel from oldest daughter the chicks will have to stay outside.

 

[RattleCan]

Woohoo! Two of my nine turkey eggs have external pips, and the rest are all internally pipped! I'm super excited! FIRST POULTS EVER!

 

[caeti21]

Another polish top hat hatched

 

[caeti21]

Woohoo! Two of my nine turkey eggs have external pips, and the rest are all internally pipped! I'm super excited! FIRST POULTS EVER!

Congrats !! Thats awesome

 

[Chaos18]

Woohoo! Two of my nine turkey eggs have external pips, and the rest are all internally pipped! I'm super excited! FIRST POULTS EVER!

cONGRATS.

Another polish top hat hatched

 

[mlm Mike]

Woohoo! Two of my nine turkey eggs have external pips, and the rest are all internally pipped! I'm super excited! FIRST POULTS EVER!

Congratulations!

Another polish top hat hatched

Great!

 

[TJordan]

Ha ha... I was just telling my son about how I need more Ayam Cemani eggs now! My dealer, I mean breeder, knows just how to suck me in. I pride myself on not being easily manipulated but I am powerless when it comes to hatching eggs.

I just added 4 Rhode Island reds to my babies.

I meet my "dealer" at the store looking as well.

 

[TJordan]

You know, now that I asked Mom they were all from dark to lighter red. My pop got them from a feed store so I'm sure they were hatchery. That may be why they were so different & not consistent in niceness. I had favorites, of coarse (most all the darker ones were my favorite ma says), but if heritage are nice as a general rule then I may have been under the wrong idea that RIR are all sorts of unpredictable because I was basing it on hatchery birds. Thank you! I will look around on here & see if I find who has the heritage RIR or if someone knows. I am definitely interested now! I seem to remember when I went to a show that there were banty RIR & they were adorable & so dark colored like my favy girls that I made a note to someday get some...to Google! Maybe I'll find what I saw that day... Yep! they looked like this.

Looks like black australorp hen. I have a few breeding pairs for sell right now in lower al. Here's a young pullet on my daughters shoulder.