YO GEORGIANS! :)

[carcar80]

So cool, thanks for explaining!!

 

[Flowerbh]

Just checked on the chicks again, did a quick candle. No peeps from the inside, no pip, nothing.. Everyone looks fine but they all seem dormant. I guess we will just wait past day 21.

Don't give up on them. This cooler weather can affect hatching time.....even up to 4 days! My last hatch, I had four egg cartons full of eggs. (Yes, I stand them up in cartons at lockdown) Two cartons in the back nearer to the wall of my room. The other two cartons were on the front of the incubator toward the front of my open room. The eggs on the back side of the incubator hatched a whole day earlier than the ones toward the room. The backside of the incubator was protected/heated more than the front side. The front side of the incubator just had more drafts. The eggs were all the same mix breed, so it wasn't that a certain breed hatched sooner. It was that the back of the incubator just stayed warmer than the front side. So, IMO, this weather being so cold could effect the hatch date of your eggs. Good luck!

 

[LTygress]

I have a few in the bator now, I'll let ya know Friday if they're developing. I'm going to try not to candle til then....but it's so tempting, especially since I hand turn the eggs.

Any of those from your silkies? If so, I might have to adopt one, lol!

 

[LTygress]

Just candled all of the eggs between my two incubators for the second time today. Light wasn't quite dim enough the first time, so I waited until it was dark OUTSIDE.

I ended up tossing a LOT of Easter Eggers and Leghorns, simply because they weren't fertile (don't worry abmaddox, I still have you covered). And then my clumsy self damaged three plymouth rocks. Two had to be tossed because they got scrambled inside. The third I was able to put a little wax on it and set it back in the incubator. I damaged that one earlier in the day and when I checked it now, it still has blood vessels, and it is still moving.

But it seems that the bamtam who bred with the phoenix is throwing 100% fertile eggs. Only the one was even due to hatch, but it will be interesting to see if she has more like that! She has since been moved in with frizzles, but I am expecting some actual phoenix pullets from McMurray in April.

 

[abmaddox1981]

@LTygress, no silkies in this batch. All Jersey Giant crosses. My silkies all went on strike just before Christmas and I got the first one since then today. The chickens are trying to give me a complex......

 

[LTygress]

Interesting. My silkies are on strike right now too!

But they've managed to find the softest dirt in their pen and turn into "chocolate" silkies, despite being white...

I wish they'd stop playing around and start laying me some eggs! lol!

 

[abmaddox1981]

Lol! Yeah all of mine are filthy right now. I'm taking my excess roos and a PITA hen to buggy town tonight. I'm having issues controlling my chicken addiction so I may come home with more than I left with!

 

[LTygress]

I should really go there sometime. But I'm afraid to go there because my sister usually accompanies me, and while she's not addicted to chickens, she IS addicted to spending. And it doesn't matter what it's on, either!

We hit up a general auction in downtown Jackson once, and got home with about $2,000 worth of junk...

 

[Twisted-Rooster]

Who's going to the show in Newnan in Feb. 14 - 15 ?

What are you bringing to show or sell? or what are you looking to buy??

I'll be looking to buy a young 100% English Buff Orpington( less than six months) if anybody has onr to sell or knows of someone, please pm me...Thanks!!!

 

[Flowerbh]

Who's going to the show in Newnan in Feb. 14 - 15 ?

What are you bringing to show or sell? or what are you looking to buy??

I'll be looking to buy a young 100% English Buff Orpington( less than six months) if anybody has onr to sell or knows of someone, please pm me...Thanks!!!

I would like a Show Girl or Silkie. Would also like a Welsummer, A Speckled Susses and a good Blue Laced Red Wyandotte.