The 5th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[angelobutter]

Just looked at the calendar and it turns out my last eggs that are currently incubating will hatch the day before we set the eggs for the hatch a long. good timing!
I say this pretending that I will only use these two incubators, but secretly i know before set day I will have pulled my 3 brinsea octagons out of storage lol

(note my stupid turners wires that got ripped out! hand turning sucks! haha)

 

[carriebain]

I forgot to mention I'm also hatching croad langshans! I'm really excited about these birds!

 

[chicken pickin]

Just looked at the calendar and it turns out my last eggs that are currently incubating will hatch the day before we set the eggs for the hatch a long. good timing!
I say this pretending that I will only use these two incubators, but secretly i know before set day I will have pulled my 3 brinsea octagons out of storage lol

(note my stupid turners wires that got ripped out! hand turning sucks! haha)

LOVE the quail eggs.

What kind do you have? Are they similar to other poultry as in the needs to raise them.

I have been in love with quail eggs for so long I really want to add some but I don't think DH will be happy, the eggs are too tiny lol.

I think they look like art.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: awesome! danke!

 

[angelobutter]

LOVE the quail eggs.

What kind do you have? Are they similar to other poultry as in the needs to raise them.

I have been in love with quail eggs for so long I really want to add some but I don't think DH will be happy, the eggs are too tiny lol.

I think they look like art.

Most of them are coturnix, but in pretty much every color they come in so it will be a fun hatch. I had originally set 9 african harlequin quail as well but only one developed so he is in there somewhere as well, the darker of the bigger quail eggs second row from the bottom, second egg in. and obviously the teeny tiny ones are button quail.
i keep my big quail in those (junky) prefab coops with covered runs you see on ebay which actually work pretty well for quail. in there they are pretty similar to keeping chickens, but are not free rangers by any means. if they get out, they are out lol. occasionally i can catch a loose one if i get close enough because they "hide'' by just squatting down in the ground so then i can just catch them, but if they decide to fly - good luck lol. I feed a game bird crumble, and I always thought the eggs were kind of useless, until someone mentioned pickled quail eggs, which i have yet to try, but sound amazing, and the size would be a perfect bitesize so I am pretty excited to try that. if i ever save any to eat instead of save to hatch lol

 

[Gentry1350]

Where do you find wild chickens?

I think they briefly belonged to a neighbor. He doesn't have a coop and is gone from home for weeks at a time (literally). They "were" scrawny little chickens. They would come over and eat with our girls during the day. Then we noticed they started roosting in one of the big trees near the coop. When we got our first sub freezing temps several moths later, they hopped in the coop with our girls. The girls didn't like it at first, but now they all get along. They showed up at our house 7-8 months ago and we still can't get any closer than about ten feet away. At least they don't run away as soon as they see us now. Good egg layers though....

 

[Gentry1350]

I think they briefly belonged to a neighbor. He doesn't have a coop and is gone from home for weeks at a time (literally). They "were" scrawny little chickens. They would come over and eat with our girls during the day. Then we noticed they started roosting in one of the big trees near the coop. When we got our first sub freezing temps several moths later, they hopped in the coop with our girls. The girls didn't like it at first, but now they all get along. They showed up at our house 7-8 months ago and we still can't get any closer than about ten feet away. At least they don't run away as soon as they see us now. Good egg layers though....

Their names are "red wild chicken" and "brown wild chicken"!

 

[Gentry1350]

WHAT  !?!?

You made it an entire year and didn't do a single hatch. I have no clue how you did it .  
ALL of us here know you are now officially going to be one of us, an addict a fellow hatcher.

So exciting, the first hatch is the best.

It's the intimidation factor of not knowing what I'm doing. I'm about to make up for it though. We are moving this month and our new "dream" house comes with a large chicken coop, plus three large pens over by the greenhouse. I'm putting chickens in the three pens (they were dog pens in a former life) and I'm cleaning out the large coop in the shed so that I can install a bunch of quail hutches. My husband is going to regret buying that incubator for me!

 

[ronott1]

It's the intimidation factor of not knowing what I'm doing. I'm about to make up for it though. We are moving this month and our new "dream" house comes with a large chicken coop, plus three large pens over by the greenhouse. I'm putting chickens in the three pens (they were dog pens in a former life) and I'm cleaning out the large coop in the shed so that I can install a bunch of quail hutches. My husband is going to regret buying that incubator for me!

Yep he stepped in it!





Congratulations on the new place!

 

[JerseyHen]

I have an empty incubator. I have an empty brooder. This must be rectified. I have room to build another run and coop. Easter is as good a time as any to hatch new fluff balls. I am in. Now to see if I can arrange for some eggs to arrive here in time!