The Middle Tennessee Thread

[Wasson6Pack]

Found it, had to switch to desktop mode, thank you!

 

[elorraine52]

One of my hens is trying to get broody on me, and the others are just trying to tick her off lol. This is actually 3 all shoved into one nesting box. They have other boxes, heck they had fresh hay in the other box- but they all wedged in here lol. Reba, Mouth, and Zoltar.

Mouth? LOL!

 

[elorraine52]

Hectic day, just got to the closet w/ incubator to candle for LD for hatch due Friday,
2 already hatched
other 5 all piped.
!!!!! oooops
Doubled checked the calendar all the dates are correct, these are just early.
Once again I'm finding better (as in 100% or real close) when I run a little hot & they hatch up to 2 days early,
it really is not logical, but this is about the 8th or so time this has happened, chicks 2-3 days early and popping out fast w/o problems.
Can anyone explain this to me??
The eggs are blue & green from my mutt mix EEs, these are in fact from birds that did the same fast hatch last spring come to think of it,
so these second gen. chicks are fast hatchers exactly like their moms but *why* so very odd, I mean this is crazy early right?

wow, what kind of incubator are you using....and do you do dry hatch? wierd....

 

[elorraine52]

I know there was someone in the Clarksville area that has Royal Palm turks, I would like to get in touch with them ....

 

[MayDayMel]

Mouth?  LOL!

Off the Goonies lol. We have Mouth, Reba, (lost Barbara Jean), Whiskers, Zoltar, and Sparky (off Puss'n'Boots) Salt and Pepper.
We had Chica, Mumble, and Gloria but sold them to a friend wanting to start having backyard chickens.

My 8yr old names them

 

[FeyRaine]

wow, what kind of incubator are you using....and do you do dry hatch? wierd....

Little Giant, this time hand turning (turner wore out)
small amt of water this time due to home heating being on, last spring they were basically dry hatches once the weather warmed and the heat wasn't running all the time.

These eggs are not super tiny, I don't have a scale but guess med-large.

The 2 I found at 11:30 pm were fully dried off hatched, 3 days early.
4/5 pipped hatched overnight so 2 days early, (1 was a very large long shaped egg had a bad pip & apparently drown right away)

So my puzzle is if running hot is such a bad thing and these super early hatchers are out of the norm, then why do they do so well for me?

I mean I got 6 of 7 self hatched quickly and look excellent healthy, 1 in odd shaped egg would have hatched but I think couldn't turn enough.

But since these are all offspring of fast hatchers from the same mutt EE dad I'm leaning toward something genetic...this is the second generation to do this, and the daughters from him were all weirdly alike, I mean I had him crossed over a Del, a Red Sexlink, a buff polish and all the chicks would come out nearly identical so his genetics must be mostly dominant traits somehow, including this tendency to early hatch. <shrug> obviously I'm not an expert, but this has been an out of the norm that keeps repeating so I've noticed it...

 

[elorraine52]

Little Giant, this time hand turning (turner wore out)
small amt of water this time due to home heating being on, last spring they were basically dry hatches once the weather warmed and the heat wasn't running all the time.

These eggs are not super tiny, I don't have a scale but guess med-large.

The 2 I found at 11:30 pm were fully dried off hatched, 3 days early.
4/5 pipped hatched overnight so 2 days early, (1 was a very large long shaped egg had a bad pip & apparently drown right away)

So my puzzle is if running hot is such a bad thing and these super early hatchers are out of the norm, then why do they do so well for me?
I mean I got 6 of 7 self hatched quickly and look excellent healthy, 1 in odd shaped egg would have hatched but I think couldn't turn enough.

But since these are all offspring of fast hatchers from the same mutt EE dad I'm leaning toward something genetic...this is the second generation to do this, and the daughters from him were all weirdly alike, I mean I had him crossed over a Del, a Red Sexlink, a buff polish and all the chicks would come out nearly identical so his genetics must be mostly dominant traits somehow, including this tendency to early hatch. <shrug> obviously I'm not an expert, but this has been an out of the norm that keeps repeating so I've noticed it...

well, I'm hoping mine do 1/2 as well, it's been 3 years (3 years?!?!) since I hatched any babies, so I've got to remember how to do this....LOL...
Congrats on the babies, curious to see if the 3rd gen. does the same, if you plan to try hatching any...
what is your egg color like from the babies?

 

[Trooper Man]

Can you give me a CITY or a County?

Sorry Mountain City

 

[FeyRaine]

well, I'm hoping mine do 1/2 as well, it's been 3 years (3 years?!?!) since I hatched any babies, so I've got to remember how to do this....LOL...
Congrats on the babies, curious to see if the 3rd gen. does the same, if you plan to try hatching any...
what is your egg color like from the babies?

These are the ones I was posting about the other day, all the F1 have pea combs, of those the subset w/ slate legs and puffy face feathers (who all are also black btw) all lay blue or green so far as I've had reports back or kept them myself. The ones hatched last night F2 were from the 2 who have laid all winter, a blue & a green respectively, I'm fairly certain they had different moms b/c one girl is 2x the size of the other and the smaller girl has a red-gold neckless that made everyone think she was a cockerel until the eggs started coming, the big girl is just solid black. My neighbor's sold black green egg layer is a full or half sister. On the very bad down side, that Roo turned expreamly aggressive at age 4 & went to freezer , and so far all his sons that I know have have gotten nasty at maturity and are going directly to the freezer. I'm hesitant to continue the line to F3 for that reason, but the girls do lay _really dependably so I'm torn on it...

So after your 3 yrs on the wagon what are you gonna set first?

Right now in the bator I have --
a) more of these mutt EEs
b) 24 eggs from Pappa Brooder, several breeds incl. BCM, some of his F2EEs, Lav something, a tiny tiny white egg I can't figure the code on, Ame
C)10 U of A Blues <-- was on a waiting list for 15!! months for these eggs , went into bator last night.
D)1 which I believe is from my SFH hen under my new SFH Roo, 1st egg of the spring we'll see if it is fertile...

I have 5 open spots, I'm so tempted to take either the olive or choc. eggs get today to fill those spots just for the heck of it, there is temp. a mutt roo w/ that flock as his re-homing situation wasn't ready when I reorganized pens, he is very nice temperament but unknown cross from a friend who's pures were all running together for the winter, so tempting to see what he produces...

 

[Oramman87]

Well my sebrights should be here in the morning it is warmer then last time so I am hoping for the best. I also got a 24ft dog run for 100 bucks so that made my day...