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Any Eggs in Incubators out there for the New Year?
Mike Gilbert:
My one setting produced 84 live chicks. All but 15 have been distributed to various 4-H families in the area - actually one family from Iowa and one from Minnesota drove here to pick up chicks since we do not ship them. The 15 we kept include one large fowl brown red (John, the male is definitely fertile), 7 bantam wheaten & blue-wheaten, 4 bantam blues, 2 silver wyandotte bantams, and one rumpless bantam araucana. We won\'t hatch again until late March. It\'s kinda fun to have just a few to take care of instead of the hundreds we end up with in the Spring. These will be pets.
Mike Gilbert
John:
--- Quote ---Have any lavender chicks hatched yet?
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Well have they? Inquiring minds want to know and I\'d like to see a photo.
I\'m still waiting for my first hatch. It should happen on the 23rd.
I sat 408 more eggs today. I hope some hatch!
grisaboy:
The eggs that I have been setting so far are primarly for 4H so most of the breeding pens are for show bantams. So far I have hatched several white Ameraucanas, a few silvers, a couple of blacks. Also have a few modern game bantams and a couple of cochin bantams.
It is interesting hatching this time of year because it is not normal for chickens to be hatching in January or February. Therefore they have to be artificially induced by lights to get them to lay. I get a wide range of fertility from the different pens of birds. I have one pen of blue frizzle cochins that have eggs hatching like popcorn. Right next to them is a pen of black cochins and every egg is clear. Go figure.
The F1 Lavendar hen that I have is in a pen in a barn with no artificial lights but she has been laying eggs all winter. I keep setting the eggs but none have hatched. I suspect that the male bird isn\'t quite doing his job since fertility in the males is often linked to day length. I don\'t intend to show these so I haven\'t been too worried about hatching them yet. I will probably move them to the coop with lights in the next couple of weeks and see if I can get things going.
Later
Curtis
bantamhill:
--- Quote from: John ---
--- Quote ---Have any lavender chicks hatched yet?
--- End quote ---
Well have they? Inquiring minds want to know and I\'d like to see a photo.
I\'m still waiting for my first hatch. It should happen on the 23rd.
I sat 408 more eggs today. I hope some hatch!
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The report from Missouri is all black chicks from the F1 generation so far. I have more eggs in the incubator and all three hens are now laying.
Michael
John:
--- Quote ---Have any lavender chicks hatched yet?
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Yes! I have several as of this morning.
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