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

[winteree]

The new chick! Just hatch today! The one I was worried about.

And the rooster that was dropped of from at hinckley park here in ohio. He is such a sweetheart!
Why would anyone do this!?

not every one is nice

and not everyone is educated about how hen reproductive organs work. i heard of a lady who thinks that if their is a rooster in the flock that all the egg's the hens lay will have fully grown chicks in them when cracked open

but honestly i have no idea where the idea comes from that people think they can dump a completely domesticated animal off in the middle of nowhere and expect them to survive they can't feed or take care of them self's

i can't tell you how many cats kittens dogs etc that we bought back from skin and bones because of stupid people like that. it really pisses me off

 

[winteree]

mine was a beagle/dachshund mix. She was mostly black with white on her belly and chest.

our hades was almost completely black but he had white ears and feet

 

[michaelf]

Last time incubation this year. Ok for several months. Once project birds get big enough will be hatching and raising those. That will be this fall.
These are snowflake quail from gunrunner cuckoo Marans and a few EE, project eggs, and some home brewed tesla.

 

[Penny Hen]

Last time incubation this year. Ok for several months. Once project birds get big enough will be hatching and raising those. That will be this fall.
These are snowflake quail from gunrunner cuckoo Marans and a few EE, project eggs, and some home brewed tesla.

OK I gotta know. What is Tesla?

 

[michaelf]

OK I gotta know. What is Tesla?

Tractor supply sells them in our area. A Rhode Island Red roo over a white leghorn. A great egg layer.

 

[apteryx]

Tractor supply sells them in our area. A Rhode Island Red roo over a white leghorn. A great egg layer.

Ahhh... A tetra tint!

 

[winteree]

Last time incubation this year. Ok for several months. Once project birds get big enough will be hatching and raising those. That will be this fall.
These are snowflake quail from gunrunner cuckoo Marans and a few EE, project eggs, and some home brewed tesla.

wow how are you going to handle lock-down and hatching

 

[michaelf]

Ahhh... A tetra tint!

Yep!!

 

[michaelf]

wow how are you going to handle lock-down and hatching

Going to move the chicken eggs to another incubator when I get ready to lock them down. (I use it sometimes as a hatcher,I do a lot of split hatches .)On around day 18 I will move chicken eggs to that one and will let the quail finish in this one. The temp on the other one fluctuates more over long periods of time but for a few days it is perfect. I have done many hatches this way.

 

[Penny Hen]

Tractor supply sells them in our area. A Rhode Island Red roo over a white leghorn. A great egg layer.

What would you call the opposite. A white Leghorn roo over Rhode Is. Red hens? That's what my Granpa used to breed to sell eggs to the hatchery.