BYM Hatching Derby - Hatch-Along

[UncleChuck]

We need follow up! So next time, before I set 100 eggs, can you swing by and help me cut out a few cockerels? I get attached and don't want to eat them or sell them to a not good home

Okay I've been trying to figure out an easier way to take photos but it ain't gonna happen.

There are birds from 3 hatches in this tractor. I had two cockerels from the previous two hatches but one is missing. He either escaped and got gotten or accidentally gave him to a friendly customer. The two eggs that were supposed to be male are male and I got two more cockerels from the 24 eggs that were supposed to be female.

16 or 17 are left from the dowsed batch. Some quit and 3 females have died so at hatch, out of 19 or 20 chicks, ~20% male and ~80% female. Since two males were intentional, that comes out to ~90% accuracy.

Conclusion, I'm gonna keep doing it, at least for chickens. The ducks rarely fill the incubator in 10 days so I don't usually have an abundance to be choosy from like with the chickens.

4 cockerels and one of the prettiest pullets (they're all pretty)

 

[2ndTink]

Okay I've been trying to figure out an easier way to take photos but it ain't gonna happen.

There are birds from 3 hatches in this tractor. I had two cockerels from the previous two hatches but one is missing. He either escaped and got gotten or accidentally gave him to a friendly customer. The two eggs that were supposed to be male are male and I got two more cockerels from the 24 eggs that were supposed to be female.

16 or 17 are left from the dowsed batch. Some quit and 3 females have died so at hatch, out of 19 or 20 chicks, ~20% male and ~80% female. Since two males were intentional, that comes out to ~90% accuracy.

Conclusion, I'm gonna keep doing it, at least for chickens. The ducks rarely fill the incubator in 10 days so I don't usually have an abundance to be choosy from like with the chickens.

4 cockerels and one of the prettiest pullets (they're all pretty)

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Oh wow! This is awesome, 80% female

She is a petty girl, thanks for sharing her photo.

Does dowsing work on chicks?

 

[UncleChuck]

Oh wow! This is awesome, 80% female

She is a petty girl, thanks for sharing her photo.

Does dowsing work on chicks?

Absolutely, the first step is to test the reaction of the pendulum on yourself and other living, verifiable beings. I may have tested some of the chicks but I don't remember. I've been mostly scrutinizing their physical differences.

I'm pretty certain she is a Cecelia/Well, Sir baby and hopefully will be pretty close to one breeding goal (heterozygous for blue, medium to dark brown, medium to heavy speckling)

 

[UncleChuck]

 

[2ndTink]

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Are you hatching again!?!

 

[UncleChuck]

Are you hatching again!?!

The pullets from this hatch are laying and those are the eggs! Not a one for breeding though so they all gotta go (Except I gotta find out who lays the really dark speckled ones and keep two anyway)

I did just hatch a clutch of mostly bielevelder crosses, though. One of the foster Easter Eggers died and I set as many fresh eggs of theirs as I could, then filled in the rest with mine.

 

[2ndTink]

The pullets from this hatch are laying and those are the eggs! Not a one for breeding though so they all gotta go (Except I gotta find out who lays the really dark speckled ones and keep two anyway)

I did just hatch a clutch of mostly bielevelder crosses, though. One of the foster Easter Eggers died and I set as many fresh eggs of theirs as I could, then filled in the rest with mine.

Wow they are laying gorgeous eggs! Sens a dark speckled egg layer on over to my coop too

I'm sorry you lost a hen, but that's cool you were able to set some eggs.

 

[UncleChuck]

Wow they are laying gorgeous eggs! Sens a dark speckled egg layer on over to my coop too

I'm sorry you lost a hen, but that's cool you were able to set some eggs.

We can meet you in Tallahassee... At Chow Time???

 

[2ndTink]

We can meet you in Tallahassee... At Chow Time???

on my way! Driving for a day each way to get some eggs wouldn't be crazy would it???

 

[UncleChuck]

on my way! Driving for a day each way to get some eggs wouldn't be crazy would it???

I can't say yes. I'd coordinate some crazy if Rob was ready to sell some Black Dragon eggs! (My name, not his. I'm sure he has the perfect name in mind)