Author Topic: Whats everyone hatching?  (Read 3173 times)

nutterly_uts

  • Joined Jul 2014
  • Jersey - for now :)
Whats everyone hatching?
« on: May 14, 2018, 08:13:30 pm »
About to incubate some shetlands, marsh daisies, marsbars, cream legbars, marans and a potluck egg :D
Whats everyone else got?

Black Sheep

  • Joined Sep 2015
  • Briercliffe
    • Monk Hall Farm
Re: Whats everyone hatching?
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2018, 08:19:41 pm »
Just hatched 8 buff Sussex - a week old and doing well :-)

Have 19 Shetland duck eggs in the incubator - first time trying to hatch waterfowl, so keeping fingers crossed.

nutterly_uts

  • Joined Jul 2014
  • Jersey - for now :)
Re: Whats everyone hatching?
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2018, 08:25:00 pm »
Have 19 Shetland duck eggs in the incubator - first time trying to hatch waterfowl, so keeping fingers crossed.

Good luck! I have no room for ducks or anything else or I'd consider going all shetland with hen, ducks, ponies, cows and sheep!

Womble

  • Joined Mar 2009
  • Stirlingshire, Central Scotland
Re: Whats everyone hatching?
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2018, 08:26:07 pm »
The usual story for us.  We thought we'd lost one of the hens a couple of weeks ago, but she turned up again yesterday..... with sixteen chicks in tow!  :trophy:
"All fungi are edible. Some fungi are only edible once." -Terry Pratchett

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Whats everyone hatching?
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2018, 11:16:34 pm »
My daughter has popped 8 eggs under her broody ..... A welsummer, an araucana, 4 sable poots, a poland  and a mottled Pekin.


What a crew!

nutterly_uts

  • Joined Jul 2014
  • Jersey - for now :)
Re: Whats everyone hatching?
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2018, 07:28:21 pm »
sablepoots  :love:

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Whats everyone hatching?
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2018, 07:45:25 pm »
Ahhhhh, not so good.


Only one sable poot is developing. One early death and two showing no development at all. It was the Poots that my daughter was really looking forward to. :-\

nutterly_uts

  • Joined Jul 2014
  • Jersey - for now :)
Re: Whats everyone hatching?
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2018, 08:48:05 pm »
Always the way :( Were they bought in eggs or yours?

in the hills

  • Joined Feb 2012
Re: Whats everyone hatching?
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2018, 09:40:52 pm »
Bought in from a rare breed farm. We collected them from the farm.


Oh well, will have to try again!

 

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