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Hello all! This hatch along is just a huge mix of a bunch of different things. All being tossed together into one huge experiment. If anyone wants to claim an egg or two to follow, let me know which number!!
It’s been probably 6 months since I hatched anything. Recently we had a tragedy involving a neighbor’s pet running loose and he came into our yard and killed 2 of my hens. One of those was the girl who had my whole heart, my single lavender silkie, who was the sweetest and friendliest girl that I had. I cried for weeks over the incident. I still have a big hole in my heart. So very irrationally, I have made the decision to hatch some more chicks, even though it’s going to be the dead of winter when they hatch. Most of these will hatch sometime in the week before Christmas.
Recently some of my spring hatched pullets started laying. And I have two young cockerels who recently started covering them. So I figured I should work on the next generation for my birds and also get some shipped eggs again.
Once I decided to go forward with this plan, I quickly threw a few eggs into my little brinsea (7 egg). I wanted to make sure it was calibrated correctly.
Then I told a friend here on BYC that I wanted to try hatching some of her eggs! She is sending them to me soon and I cannot wait!! Then I ordered from one breeder that was having a “Black Friday sale” on hatching eggs. I don’t have very high hopes for any shipped eggs after the abysmal hatches I had earlier this year. But I had to try. And in the meantime, I’ll be filling out my incubator space with my own eggs.
And meanwhile, I have a broody silkie girl who managed to sit on 3 fertile silkie eggs that are probably 10 days along or so. Those three eggs I didn’t number so I won’t really include them in the hatch along, but I am putting a couple more eggs under her to incubate until the other eggs hatch.
This way I can see which has the best method of hatching between the hen (she will definitely have the best results haha) the brinsea (holds 7) and the chickcozy (holds 25 and is basically a piece of garbage).
When I get the next batch of shipped eggs later this week, I’ll discard any eggs that didn’t develop and then I will have space for the new eggs.
Here are the possibilities for the eggs coming from my own flock:
Cockerel 1: black silkie frizzle showgirl - he stays more separated from the main flock with his hatchmate sisters
Cockerel 2: paint satin bantam - he is a cross of silkie and lavender bantam ameraucana he spends his time with all of the main flock
The girls: not positive which ones are laying, or if they are fertilized
3 silkies: 1 paint showgirl (laying), 1 black w/gold birchen, 1 buff cuckoo
2 satin frizzled silkies: both laced pattern (not sure these two are laying yet, if they are I hope that the frizzled roo isn’t covering them I have never seen him approach them)
1 olive egger: she’s 1/2 marans and 1/2 silkied EE, Definitely laying
1 lavender bantam ameraucana, definitely laying blue egg
1 black satin bantam, a cross of lavender bantam ameraucana and silkie, definitely laying blue egg
I’m going to make a list of each egg, where it is being incubated (this could easily change at any time as I rotate them,) and any descriptors.
Set 11/27/24 My own eggs, in chickcozy
1 blue
2 blue @TesoroSena
3 silkie - developing
4 silkie - developing
5 silkie
6 olive
7 olive
Set 11/30/24 Shipped silkie eggs
8 Blue-based Blue Cream Brinsea
9 Buff Brinsea
10 Cuckoo Brinsea @TesoroSena
11 Choc Sex Link Chickcozy
12 Choc Sex Link Chickcozy
13 Choc Sex Link Brinsea
14 Lavender Brinsea
15 Lavender Hen
16 Lavender Brinsea
17 Lavender Hen
18 Lavender Brinsea
19 Lavender Chickcozy
Set 11/30/24 My own eggs in chickcozy
20 pure banty am
21 ban am/silkie
22 ban am/silkie
23 silkie
24 silkie
25 silkie
26 OE
27 OE
28 OE
29 older silkie egg
30 older silkie egg
I’ll try to keep this list updated frequently, as far as who is developing, which ones weren’t fertilized, and which ones are quitters. I’ll also be adding the ones that come to me in the mail later this week!
It’s been probably 6 months since I hatched anything. Recently we had a tragedy involving a neighbor’s pet running loose and he came into our yard and killed 2 of my hens. One of those was the girl who had my whole heart, my single lavender silkie, who was the sweetest and friendliest girl that I had. I cried for weeks over the incident. I still have a big hole in my heart. So very irrationally, I have made the decision to hatch some more chicks, even though it’s going to be the dead of winter when they hatch. Most of these will hatch sometime in the week before Christmas.
Recently some of my spring hatched pullets started laying. And I have two young cockerels who recently started covering them. So I figured I should work on the next generation for my birds and also get some shipped eggs again.
Once I decided to go forward with this plan, I quickly threw a few eggs into my little brinsea (7 egg). I wanted to make sure it was calibrated correctly.
Then I told a friend here on BYC that I wanted to try hatching some of her eggs! She is sending them to me soon and I cannot wait!! Then I ordered from one breeder that was having a “Black Friday sale” on hatching eggs. I don’t have very high hopes for any shipped eggs after the abysmal hatches I had earlier this year. But I had to try. And in the meantime, I’ll be filling out my incubator space with my own eggs.
And meanwhile, I have a broody silkie girl who managed to sit on 3 fertile silkie eggs that are probably 10 days along or so. Those three eggs I didn’t number so I won’t really include them in the hatch along, but I am putting a couple more eggs under her to incubate until the other eggs hatch.
This way I can see which has the best method of hatching between the hen (she will definitely have the best results haha) the brinsea (holds 7) and the chickcozy (holds 25 and is basically a piece of garbage).
When I get the next batch of shipped eggs later this week, I’ll discard any eggs that didn’t develop and then I will have space for the new eggs.
Here are the possibilities for the eggs coming from my own flock:
Cockerel 1: black silkie frizzle showgirl - he stays more separated from the main flock with his hatchmate sisters
Cockerel 2: paint satin bantam - he is a cross of silkie and lavender bantam ameraucana he spends his time with all of the main flock
The girls: not positive which ones are laying, or if they are fertilized
3 silkies: 1 paint showgirl (laying), 1 black w/gold birchen, 1 buff cuckoo
2 satin frizzled silkies: both laced pattern (not sure these two are laying yet, if they are I hope that the frizzled roo isn’t covering them I have never seen him approach them)
1 olive egger: she’s 1/2 marans and 1/2 silkied EE, Definitely laying
1 lavender bantam ameraucana, definitely laying blue egg
1 black satin bantam, a cross of lavender bantam ameraucana and silkie, definitely laying blue egg
I’m going to make a list of each egg, where it is being incubated (this could easily change at any time as I rotate them,) and any descriptors.
Set 11/27/24 My own eggs, in chickcozy
1 blue
2 blue @TesoroSena
3 silkie - developing
4 silkie - developing
5 silkie
6 olive
7 olive
Set 11/30/24 Shipped silkie eggs
8 Blue-based Blue Cream Brinsea
9 Buff Brinsea
10 Cuckoo Brinsea @TesoroSena
11 Choc Sex Link Chickcozy
12 Choc Sex Link Chickcozy
13 Choc Sex Link Brinsea
14 Lavender Brinsea
15 Lavender Hen
16 Lavender Brinsea
17 Lavender Hen
18 Lavender Brinsea
19 Lavender Chickcozy
Set 11/30/24 My own eggs in chickcozy
20 pure banty am
21 ban am/silkie
22 ban am/silkie
23 silkie
24 silkie
25 silkie
26 OE
27 OE
28 OE
29 older silkie egg
30 older silkie egg
I’ll try to keep this list updated frequently, as far as who is developing, which ones weren’t fertilized, and which ones are quitters. I’ll also be adding the ones that come to me in the mail later this week!
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