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What kind of incubator do you have. I am interested in getting a small one (5-20 eggs) / Would like one of those automatic ones.I bought hatching eggs from a local breeder. We gathered the eggs right out of the nesting boxes and I took them home and popped them in the 'bator"! 5 out of 5 eggs hatched. It was the easiest incubation, ever! Three turned out to be cockerels and were re-homed but they only cost me $1 per egg so I'm happy with my two girls. They don't look anything like the parent birds who had gold, brown and tan patterned feathers. Mine are solid black (Ebony) and white (Angel). The 3 cockerels were all solid black...So, I'm wondering what the "grandparent" birds were?
I think the EE's will be the smallest in my flock too -except for the silkies, but I keep them penned seperate because of their vaulted skulls. My PBR, BO and RIR aren't very nice to newbies or babies so I have a towel hanging down in the "large fowl" coop. The younger girls go on one side and the big girls go on the other. It really cuts down on the pecking during roosting each night.
That is probably a mix of pea and rose combs. Probably from a Wyendotte mix. Wyendottes and Orpingtons can sometimes lay pink eggs. If an Orpington, the comb would be a mix of pea and straight.
I'm so sorry about the losses you've experienced. I can think of so many times (this last year) when my chickens were the best comfort and therapy.My first EE laid her egg at 5 months old, so thats about 20 weeks old. It was a green one and found it on the bottom of the coop on Halloween. I just got home from my uncles funeral a very emotional day so of course I cried. I lost my daddy 4 months before my uncle. Wish he could have seen it. He did get to see pictures of the girls when they were a week old. Let me stop the keyboard is getting fuzzy. As for red combs and face, yes, mine squat all the time, love to rub their backs, and you will hear the chicken song afterwards or sometimes before, so you will know. When I ordered mine from MPC, it said they were smaller than the standard chicken sorta medium in size. I ordered 3 EE bantams from them this year and I think they are standards. Looking kinda bigI think everybody was laying by the month of Nov. but one. She's laying now but she has a crop problem. Tried every thing for that. I will be waiting for bantam eggs this fall.
I got a Hova Bator with egg turners and fan. I think it holds more (42eggs) than what you want, but it was a pretty good value and has worked great on 3 batches so far. The most I've had in at one time was 30 eggs. I actually let them hatch in another Hova Bator without the fan (but maybe I don't need to move them?). These aren't automatic, but with a good therometer and hygrometer it really held the temperature and humidity well.What kind of incubator do you have. I am interested in getting a small one (5-20 eggs) / Would like one of those automatic ones.
Is it a Genesis Hova Bator?I got a Hova Bator with egg turners and fan. I think it holds more (42eggs) than what you want, but it was a pretty good value and has worked great on 3 batches so far. The most I've had in at one time was 30 eggs. I actually let them hatch in another Hova Bator without the fan (but maybe I don't need to move them?). These aren't automatic, but with a good therometer and hygrometer it really held the temperature and humidity well.
I originally got the EE eggs for my broody BO...but she didn't stay on the nest so I put them in the Hova Bator. Buffy has since figured it out and hatched other eggs.
This is Buffy "pretending" or "practicing" to be broody!
And, this is the Hova Bator thats been working for me:
Some of the "girls" including my2 EE's and BO sneaking onto the patio.....I better go chase them off, again!