the "not-so-bad" Blue Wheaten Ameraucana Hatch of 2010

[debilorrah]

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Sounds one sided, but I'll take it!!!!

 

[debilorrah]

My Wheaten/Blue Wheaten eggs are blue with a touch of green to them. She just started laying though. I have her first laid egg in the bator, and the rest from that day were fertile, so the roo is doing his business!!!

 

[Mahonri]

Well now I'm still trying to adjust the IncCubebator. The dial on the Thermostat is VERY touchy. I wish it had a little more play.

I can't wait to candle to see how many of the 95 get discarded.

I'm guessing I'll have about 78 on day 10 and 69 on lockdown. We shall see!

 

[Brindlebtch]

 

[Mahonri]

Just noticed a crack in one of my own W/BWA eggs on the top of the fat end.

What do I use, fingernail polish? candle wax? take it out and forget it?

 

[debilorrah]

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Candle wax.

 

[pasofinofarm]

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My hens are 2-3 years old (one may be 4)... they also lay a very long season since we do not really have 'winter' as some know it... I also have at least one hen that I believe is infertile (Mahonri knows this) so he may see more clears than usual. I am currently trap-nesting and marking eggs to figure out who she is... One of the issues with this variety, according to Paul Smith, is that they do not have a long productive life and many hens are spent at age 2 or 3... so I am keeping older hens that stay in production trying to breed for longer productive lives. All eggs from me are always subject to whatever I am working on or working out at the time.

But I have 25 BW Ameraucana chicks comming up and will have pullets laying in about 4 months... I'm looking forward to those deep blues again myself! Although yesterday the girls surprised me with two really blue, blue eggs.

 

[Mahonri]

Should be fun to see how many chicks I end up with!

All of my current hens came from Melissa's eggs. And they are beautiful!!!

They are 1 year old this year... I hope they'll be laying two years from now!

 

[pasofinofarm]

I hope you hatch goes great! It was in support of this hatch that I sent eggs... I have let very, very few Ameraucana eggs out of here this year since my talk with Paul. As far as I know I have the oldest hens of this breed still laying but if anyone knows of a breeding group that is older than mine and still laying... pass the word to me so I can try to get some of those genes!

Sorry for the thread hi-jack M... I am just so excited to see you take this on and I think it will draw lots of good attention so wanted to get a word in for my search!

 

[Mahonri]

Melissa, your eggs are like GOLD. I'm so glad I had some more of them for this hatch.