Not sure if anyone even noticed that I have been gone, but I am back to check in.
The bator is full and the hatching will begin on Friday! Orloffs and Brabanters, then next week Giant Blue Cochins, Black Copper Marans, Salmon and Blue Faverolles and the Sebestpol geese and last but not least, the rumpless araucanas! I love spring in LA!
What does everyone have in their Bators?
I am still looking for some White crested Polish Bantam hatching eggs if anyone has any!!
Here is the other one.
You have indeed been missed!!!! That is a wonderfully colored array of eggs. They are beautiful!!! wooohooo!!!
Thank you Sewincircle! I am excited. New babies! and the Geese. Never had geese! Honk Honk! I have some ducks and more Sebastpol geese coming from McMurry in April too. The farm is coming alive! I love spring!
Wow! Back with a BANG! LOL Glad to see you back IB.. That is awesome! Even nice to look at the pics! I hope all is well for you..
Sending positive hatching thoughts.. (should I borrow Claire's pink pom poms? They work great for hatching cheers) LOL
I have some more rumpless in the bator.. They are darling!
I have some of our own Barnevelders, some Dutch Bantams, some Spitz, and a few Modern Game Bantams..
Very cool ZZ! sounds like you have Spring off and running at your place too.
Thanks for the positive hatching thoughts! and yes, Claire, break out the pom poms! We need a picture of that! Can't wait to see everyone's new baby pics.
Geese too!!! WOW, you have really out done yourself for this spring. I think you have the fever!!! wooohooo! I cant wait to see them born. I have never done or seen them born!! COOL! woohoo! Oh yes break out the pompoms!!! Shake it to the left...shake it to the right..stand up... sit down...pip pip zippppppp! yeah!!!!!
Gimme a P
Gimme an I
Gimme a P
What does it spell?
PIP!!!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy!!! (much pom pom waving)
Great array of eggs. I currently have in the bator:
black copper marans (6)
Ameraucanas (8)
Polish cross (from my own hen and 1 of about 5 possible dads) (4)
Muscovy ducks (7)
I have a creme brabanter roo but he's the only one. What color are your brabanters going to be?
Now that is team spirit!!!! Goooooo PIPS!!!!!!
Not sure what color the Brabanters will be. They were freebees with the goose eggs. Gotta love a freebee!
I like the second pic.. if you scroll down it looks like it's getting bigger.. LOL
or... um.. is that me? LOL
Is it Friday yet??????
Somebody get ZZ a strong drink.
Freebies are awesome! Here is my creme brabanter roo!
All --where are you finding your Rumpless'?? Looking for good non-EE sources...Araucana that are not Ameraucana or Easter Egger...
Candidate for Mr. D'arcy...does he take himself too seriously??
Sand Hill Preservation has Manx Rumpless.
I got mine here..
http://www.thebestegg.com/
Excellent packing, fast service.. and good eggs!
Bantam....they look great though...
Is a brabanter a polish cross? Its nice looking.
Well I too have been missing in action. What is in my bator, you ask?????????? Nothing but empty egg shells. Monday and Tuesday I hatched 47 little cuties (barnyard specials) from my own stock. They are all doing fine and we had a great hatch rate.
Refilling tonight with another 12 dozen eggs from our hens. After that I will be separating the breeds and be hatching Marans and Buff Orps first. I have orders for them already and things are picking up on the other breeds.
47! Fabulous! That must be a whole handful of fun! Glad to see you on here Sheila!
Some of my recent hatch are buff orps. They are gorgeous chicks. I didn't hatch any of those before.
Congratulations Sheila looks like your well on the way to haveing a good business.
You have been missed!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats Sheila!!! That is great! Something good to look forward to. Be Blessed!!
in my bator i got silkie, EE, oegb x turken(pure or mix), pheonix x hamburgs(pure or mix), slw, white sultan and not sure what else. i got in today 11 buff silkies with 1 gray and 1 partridge silkies also. got welsummers and mgb's comeing and mixed comeing also.
my girls r starting to lay for some of my pens also!!!
silkie, great mix!
I am getting the rumpless from a guy in Amherst VA. My hatch rate is really bad only 1 chick out of 14 eggs with his shipment. My others are really great. I have 13 out of 14 Faverolelles. Not so great on the Blue Cochins, but he is sending me more eggs.
Also getting some eggs from hinkcj@ptd.net on back yard chickens.hope to have a better rate with the new eggs
Thanks again...
6 RIR's last week 3 Blue JG's so far one more pipped. Will throw out what doesnt hatch tomorrow and start a new batch Saturday.
Got my spare bedroom cleaned out and that will be my incubator/brooder/sewing/computer room. Once the chicks feather out they go outside to big brooder.
Hey Luvs, did you get the tomato round robin back on track yet? I'd really like to get my seeds from it soon so that I can start planting by March!
Congrats everyone!!! wooohooo! It may not look it but Spring is coming!!!!
InBetween... don't forget that Rumpless have the lethal gene.. it's hard to get a good hatch with them.. Especially shipped eggs. I got 2 out of 6 and felt like I hit the lotto! LOL I have another batch of 6 in there now.. from VA too. Great lil babiez! Good luck!
I have 4 Modern Game Bantams pipped.. I can't wait!!
Why are rumpless so difficult to hatch? Is that the ones who lay colored eggs? But no EE?
I have the first pip, an Orloff! WOOHOOO!
Awesome! I haven't got any orloffs.
zz good luck to you with your babies! Hope we both hit the jackpot with our VA araucanas..
good question sewing. I don't know why they are hard to hatch. Maybe someone can fill us in. I have never raised any in the bator.
The tufted Aracauna have a lethal gene.. (it's over my head to scientifically explain it) but a percentage will die in the egg, and a percentage will not hatch.
I do know that breeding a tufted to a tufted is bad news.
I am sure Silkiechick could explain this in terms that make sense.
Aracauna lay blue eggs. So do Ameracauna and EEs. It's confusing.
I hope this helps some!
I got 2 Modern Game.. a black and a Blue.. I'm in love.. The lil blue is the cutest thing ever. Cody has been bugging me for months to get a modern game.. we got the hen at the show.. now she has company.. (when they are big enough) There are 2 more pips..
Did I ever tell you I love blue babiez??????
UPDATE InnBetween!!! How is the hatch going???
Thanks for the info ZZ. (I love blue babies toooooo)
Not so great. I have 2 Orloffs that made it thru the hatch. I don't understand it. the brabanters were all pecking at the eggs last night and even one pipped thru this morning, but they all died in the their shells. I had the humidity up to about 70 and the temp was good, I just dont' get it.
anyway. I have two orloffs.
forgot their picture. Valentine and Cupid
Oh no! So sorry to hear about the brabanters.
thanks. They just couldn't get out, they got too weak.
Oh no.. I'm sorry.. That is hard to take.. I'm hatching some and they didn't do well at all..
I did get 4 out of 4 Modern game.. I'm so in love with them!
I have the humidity over 80 and still get sticky ones here and there.
The Dutch Bantams go in next..
I hope all your others do well!!!
