The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[wolftracks]

Sally.................something for you to look forward to.............................my Cream Legbar eggs. The picture does not do them justice, but it's the best I could do. She laid about 2 pullet sized eggs, then went to large sized eggs.

Now those are eggs!

 

[Cynthia12]

in theory they are the same breed of chicken but are sexlinks so males look different than the females. oh an another hint- definitely a rare breed

Rare? Are Barnevelders considered rare still?

See, this is what I get for posting before I finished up with catching up, but I wanted to see if I was getting close.

 

[Daniel1974]

All locked down

Closed up tight

Nice little set up you have

 

[angelobutter]

they are from a hatchery that only sells rare breeds. I was told they were bielefelders by the hatchery but i think they look more like rhodebars.

 

[Cynthia12]

I have some chicks hatching underneath one of my bantam cochins,

I wasn't expecting them until the 22nd

today is my birthday so it turned out to be egg-cellent(

) birthday surprise.

Wow! What a birthday gift!

 

[chirpingcricket]

I'm sorry, I meant to capture the quote on the question about the broody sitting on the hatching egg. They kind of fluff out their wings and hover over the eggs when they are hatching (like a tent). Although accidents can happen. I just had a silkie hatch out three chicks. Another hen piled into the nest with her and crushed one of the chicks. It was literally mothered to death. The actual mother has now been moved to a pen with the two surviving chicks.

Wow, I was wondering. Watching these incubate has been an eye opener to the care and hatch process. I'm exhausted.

I don't know how they hang in there, they are almost isolated to themselves for 21+ days and Then. . . go through the precarious hatch. I have 1 new hen and another, our oldest hen, who both went broody on St. Patrick's Day. (2 separate coops). So far they are staying put. Growl and peck at me if I or any of the other birds get near them.

This should be fun! Thanks for the reply.

 

[Cynthia12]

Update: Yes, we have chicks!

3 hatched so far. Hoping the other 32 make it as well. Had a little trouble with the first one, initially who was ripping and zipping like crazy. She ended up on her head and started back around and stopped. Finally, she stomped and kicked her way off of her head and made it out.
Meanwhile, 2 others, pipped, ripped and popped right out not wasting a minute of time. Then flopping around and crawling on everything making quite a mess!

Had a bit to do today, company, phone calls re: chicks and friends over to help hubby put up a swing/jamboree frame. Of course, had to cook them supper. Just finished!
I'm including pictures of the 3 of them. The 2nd and 3rd chicks are dry and fluffed while the 1st but last is still a bit wet/drying in the picture. Thanks so much for the info and support!!!

Looks like it will be a long night and week/weekend for alot of us. Good luck to us all!!

The group. . .

2nd Chick

3rd Chick

The 1 first chick who was on her head...




Hopefully more to come. . .

Aww..good job baby chickies...now your mom won't be so worried.

 

[Cynthia12]

Sally.................something for you to look forward to.............................my Cream Legbar eggs. The picture does not do them justice, but it's the best I could do. She laid about 2 pullet sized eggs, then went to large sized eggs.

And I was thinking I didn't want legbars, that my EE's and Ameraucanas could do fine..they aren't that big. Or blue. Eggs are so expensive right now. I am hoping the price of them will go down...sooner than later now. Beautiful eggs Happy Chooks,

 

[misskeeter]

Nice little set up you have 

Thanks! I did that for my last hatch to keep eggs separate so I could tell who came from which egg.... The bonus was that it kept my bator almost spotless....

 

[chirpingcricket]

There she is!!! CONGRATS MOMMA!!! WELL DONE now come on babies!!! whoot whoot!!

There she is!!! CONGRATS MOMMA!!! WELL DONE now come on babies!!! whoot whoot!!

Gee whiz, lady, I'm still trying to catch up on the reading. Husband and company fed. Company gone, but loved the chickies! Thanks for the support again...but, there's more to go! I'll try not to bug anyone to much. haha
I've re-locked down the 'bator. Temp back up to 99.9, humidity down to 65 degrees sound right?