The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

[Wickedchicken6]

Quote: Oh Ron! That's pure evil right there!

I could totally do that with mine, stacked 4-5 high...I would only have to manually turn every evening so they rest on the opposite side.
With fresh eggs AND turning....OMG! You know you just turned the kid loose in the candy store, right?
That's SO incredibly wicked...my maniacal brain is swimming with all sorts of evil ideas.

Pandora's box HAS been opened!! It's GOING TO BE AVIAN ANARCHY ALL OVER THE PLACE!!!

 

[SONquility]

Looked them up..I thought I knew what they were. Yep, I love me a big dog! Just beautiful!

Thank you!

 

[SONquility]

I was wondering the same thing. Can they be LGD's?

I have heard YES they can be trained as LGD's but I've also heard NO, I think it depends on the DOG and the OWNER.
Mine will WATCH the chickens but if given a chance to get INTO their yard they will chase them.

 

[SONquility]

Had to look it up, wow beautiful and what does a baby like this cost?

Depends on the breeder, MOST start at $2,500. (The GOOD breeders!!)

 

[ronott1]

For ducks the rule is 10days, I imagine it's less for chickens

You need to wait 30 days. After 15 days it will still be 50% from the old rooster.

Hens have semen storage glands that store an nourish it. The old "push" the old out is a myth. The semen has to die and that takes time.

 

[dotknott]

You need to wait 30 days. After 15 days it will still be 50% from the old rooster.

Hens have semen storage glands that store an nourish it. The old "push" the old out is a myth. The semen has to die and that takes time.

Wow! I had no idea it was that long! Crazy chickens!

 

[ronott1]

Wow! I had no idea it was that long! Crazy chickens!

I know!

I have a dorking x wheaten ameraucna that was collected after 15 days. It is fairly safe after that but you cannot guarantee parents and some sports still pop up up to 30 days.

It is all a design so that the rooster can die protecting the hens and the hens can still produce the next generation.

 

[Beer can]

The octagon is meant to tilt that way. Styrobators can be tilted up on a book on one side and next time the book is moved to the other side.

It is not ideal but will work for adding 96 eggs to an 42 egg incubator.

Not sure how I feel about this I never thought of....might get in some trouble...thanks Ron :-D

 

[I Love Layers]

For me for collecting eggs for this do you all think it would be ok if I were to collect eggs on the 23, and 24 and anything they lay on the 25 before noon? With only 3 cochins laying i want to get the most out of every hatch

 

[Happy Chooks]

Hey Happy!

Back atcha!

Quote: I actually have never had that many in one incubator. I have stacked with the turner though. I know about the drain holes simply from moving the incubator.

Quote: BRAT.

If they would go in at night on their own like chickens, I totally would.

So I'm setting pure breed eggs for the hatch-a-long, however, I have a mixed breed flock, so I had to separate the hens of the breeds I want to get them away from other roosters. How long until the semen from other roosters is out of their systems?

4 weeks.

I didn't really want anymore ducks, either. I love Duck Duck, our little adopted wood duck but she makes a mess of the flock's water dish. She has her own pool, and my garden pond but somehow that's not enough. I think she does it on purpose, just to irk her chicken sisters. Then last month a friend texted to ask if I wanted some duck eggs to hatch. A dozen are on day 17 in the incubator. oO(sigh)


Duck Duck

GOOSE! (sorry couldn't resist.

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Whoo! Took me a while to catch up, and I've only been gone a week. Had a long week at work, so too tired to get on. I guess I forgot to mention that only one of my 6 babies made it out last week, and it was the one I assisted. She had slight scissor beak and a messed up/swollen eye, but she is very healthy and active and sweet (not to mention PRETTY!!) and is now living with my best friend who fell in love with her when I sent her pics. I let her have her for free in addition to the 5 older chicks I sold to her. Nice little bonus if you ask me, and I'll be getting update pics!!
So now I've got 17 more eggs in the bator that went into lockdown today with my new hygrometer to ensure temps and humidity are steady so I can hopefully prevent another massive hatch failure. They are due to hatch Saturday and I see lots of rockin and rollin goin on in there! There's 6 more of the SLW X Wheaten Am eggs that I tried to hatch last time, and 11 Blue Am eggs that are either sired by my Wheaten Am boy or my Blue Am boy, not sure which, as these eggs were collected shortly after I separated my birds for breeding. I hope my SLW X babies turn out looking like the others that didn't hatch...they were beautiful little silvery white babies with patches of black on their heads, backs, and tips of their wings. I'm really hopeful that I get more like that because I will definitely be keeping at least one of those for myself

Anyway, wish me luck on these new babies, and I'm setting more (BBS Ams, Am X Maran OEs, and BLRWs) as soon as these babies make it out, since I got a new bator for the HAL, so there will be babies EVERYWHERE here, lol. I think I'll end up with over a hundred chicks if everything goes according to plan. Hopefully I'll be able to sell most of them. Fingers crossed for lots of babies!!!

You need to wait 30 days. After 15 days it will still be 50% from the old rooster.

Hens have semen storage glands that store an nourish it. The old "push" the old out is a myth. The semen has to die and that takes time.

Yep yep. Hens can store it.