The Pita Pinta Asturiana

[Ballerina Bird]

Hi all Pita Pinta and Spanish Breed Fanciers.,
I just received 18 shipped eggs from PetRock to my home in N. GA., my VERY first time for incubating, hatching.
All arrived intact, and are now resting on their pointy ends. I am picking up 6 local fertile eggs, and will put all in my incubator, Brinsea Octagon 20 Advanced w/ turner and auto humidifier., tomorrow.
This will be my first hatch of any kind, and I am so excited and apprehensive.. Debi has been so very helpful along the way, and I appreciate her advice very much.
PetRock absolutely packed her eggs as well as could be expected. Double Boxed, Each egg individually bubble wrapped with the up arrow on each wrap, then more bubble wrap and styrofoam .
insulation. USPS delivered the box to me with the correct side UP! Each egg was marked according to rooster fertilization.
I have one Marraduna Basque pullet, and am very interested in the EO's and Pita Pintas.
Please Wish Me and the Eggs lots of luck.

East Coast pita pintas! That is so great. Hope you have a terrific hatch. They are such a lovely breed.

 

[ronott1]

Hi all Pita Pinta and Spanish Breed Fanciers.,
I just received 18 shipped eggs from PetRock to my home in N. GA., my VERY first time for incubating, hatching.
All arrived intact, and are now resting on their pointy ends. I am picking up 6 local fertile eggs, and will put all in my incubator, Brinsea Octagon 20 Advanced w/ turner and auto humidifier., tomorrow.
This will be my first hatch of any kind, and I am so excited and apprehensive.. Debi has been so very helpful along the way, and I appreciate her advice very much.
PetRock absolutely packed her eggs as well as could be expected. Double Boxed, Each egg individually bubble wrapped with the up arrow on each wrap, then more bubble wrap and styrofoam .
insulation. USPS delivered the box to me with the correct side UP! Each egg was marked according to rooster fertilization.
I have one Marraduna Basque pullet, and am very interested in the EO's and Pita Pintas.
Please Wish Me and the Eggs lots of luck.

That is great news!

I hope you have a great hatch!

 

[Henthused]

Thank You, Ballerina Bird, We need to have this beautiful and versatile bird over here!

 

[Henthused]

Thanks for the encouragement, Ron. Beautiful Pita Pinta eggs from Debi. Very nice, large eggs, a few even XL.
I will be studying all the SOP requirements as well as the pictures and comments from Debi and other Pita Pinta Breeders such as yourself and Ballerina Bird. Who would have thought? From horses (I still have them and ride) to breeding chickens!!

 

[ronott1]

The fifth of six eggs hatched a chick while I was at work!

The sixth has a little head up in the air cell so hopefully one more soon!

 

[Henthused]

Alright, Ron! Good luck on the 6th

 

[Ballerina Bird]

The fifth of six eggs hatched a chick while I was at work!

The sixth has a little head up in the air cell so hopefully one more soon!

Go Ron!

 

[caychris]

Yeah you are moving Pitas East and Im trying to move Barred Hollands West.

Pitas are a really great chicken. Temperment, Pretty, Eggs and even tasty eating.

 

[PetRock]

Hi all Pita Pinta and Spanish Breed Fanciers.,
I just received 18 shipped eggs from PetRock to my home in N. GA., my VERY first time for incubating, hatching.
All arrived intact, and are now resting on their pointy ends. I am picking up 6 local fertile eggs, and will put all in my incubator, Brinsea Octagon 20 Advanced w/ turner and auto humidifier., tomorrow.
This will be my first hatch of any kind, and I am so excited and apprehensive.. Debi has been so very helpful along the way, and I appreciate her advice very much.
PetRock absolutely packed her eggs as well as could be expected. Double Boxed, Each egg individually bubble wrapped with the up arrow on each wrap, then more bubble wrap and styrofoam .
insulation. USPS delivered the box to me with the correct side UP! Each egg was marked according to rooster fertilization.
I have one Marraduna Basque pullet, and am very interested in the EO's and Pita Pintas.
Please Wish Me and the Eggs lots of luck.

That is fantastic news!!! They made from CA to GA in two days! That's pretty amazing! I'm glad that all made it in good shape by outside view. Are you planning on candling them before setting them to check the air cells? I would be interested to know how they look.

Good luck on the hatch! It is a slippery slope that you have now started down. Hatching is definitely addicting!

 

[PetRock]

I had an interesting thing happen with my Pita Pinta eggs. I have 2 Pita Pinta breeding pens set up. 1 has Zorro with now 8 of his daughters and the other has 1 of Zorro's sons with the 7 mothers. The cockerel was Poncho until we processed him on 3/28. As he matured, it was noticeable that he was shorter in the back than he should have been.

I have hatched quite a few chicks from both pens with about equal fertility until the eggs laid 2 weeks before we switched cockerels. Dawn and I exchanged eggs on 3/21. Several of the eggs from Poncho did not show any development. (Correct, Dawn?) Then the next week, I sent 12 eggs to a FB friend in MO. Only 3 were from Poncho because I was concerned about his fertility. Not a 1 developed but 7 of Zorros are developing. Hatch day is 4/25. It will be interesting to see how many chicks hatch.

I have several broodies sitting on eggs and 2 clutches were due to hatch today. All of them were Poncho eggs and not a 1 of them developed. So I have 2 broodies sitting on dud eggs. I'm planning on taking some out of the incubator that are due to hatch 4/24 and slipping them under my girls tonight.

We have had some mite issues in that pen plus we ran out of King Feed and the kids filled the feeder with an all grain all animal feed. So, was it a health issue or a nutritional issue or ??? I know that Poncho was fertile and then he wasn't. Hopefully, Don Juan will be a good replacement for him and make beautiful babies!