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

[ShelbyCoral]

I've got a breeding quad of mille fleur d'Uccles (3 hens and a roo), and a breeding set of Ameraucana/Araucana banties (4 hens and 1 roo) and some backyard mix ( 1 frizzled roo and 13 hens, 4 of them frizzled). To make room for some new chicks, I will be downsizing the adult flock starting this weekend. Selling a couple of the mixed hens to a fella locally to add to his backyard flock and probably gonna give a couple of our fav 2 year old hens to a friend who has a flock just barely into the country just outside the city metro area this summer. Planning to start a more concentrated breeding program with the d'Uccles and the A/As (separately obviously) and keep a few of my most broody mix hens to help keep the eggs from freezing before they can be collected during cold months (they lay bigger eggs of a darker color so it's easy to tell which ones are theirs if they happen to lay one). Currently have 2 full brooders with 8 d'Uccles who are almost 2 weeks old (my easter HAL chicks) and the other with 5 A/As, 2 A/A crossed with frizzle roo (which are technically EE I guess then) and 4 d'Uccle cross chicks ( from the broody who is in there to keep the eggs from getting too cold)

Oh my that is allot...

 

[ShelbyCoral]

Now that's mean!!! I CAN'T REACH IT FROM A COMPUTER! But tempting....

 

[ShelbyCoral]

I have to sell some chicks.... Got too many! Plus what ever is in the incubator. The sale person at TSC begged us to take most of the chicks! I took 7 d'uccles. Im keeping 3 and going to sell the other 4. I am also going to sell my Amerucana roosters. I have too many! LOL!!!!!!! Also seabrights....

 

[JDchicks]

Update (missing cochin): 100% hatch on her eggs. All 6 babies are out and doing great!

 

[foxvalleyfarm]

Update (missing cochin): 100% hatch on her eggs.  All 6 babies are out and doing great!

YAY!!!!!

 

[winteree]

Update (missing cochin): 100% hatch on her eggs. All 6 babies are out and doing great!

whoh wow

i wish i had that i'll be lucking if one of my eggs hatch

 

[winteree]

Now that's mean!!! I CAN'T REACH IT FROM A COMPUTER! But tempting....

since my glasses grew legs can you tell me what it is?

 

[winteree]

I have to sell some chicks.... Got too many! Plus what ever is in the incubator. The sale person at TSC begged us to take most of the chicks! I took 7 d'uccles. Im keeping 3 and going to sell the other 4. I am also going to sell my Amerucana roosters. I have too many! LOL!!!!!!! Also seabrights....

I wished we lived closer i would love some chicks

 

[Cynthia12]

Update (missing cochin): 100% hatch on her eggs. All 6 babies are out and doing great!

So glad they hatched! Hope one looks like the missing one??

 

[michaelf]

Good Sunday Morning !!! Have a fantastic day!!