Photos of eggs hatched on the HHS Family Farm November 2020 Hatch BCM's

 Eggs Photo

Our goal is to create some unusual Egg colors at the farm. In October 2020 we purchased some BCM fertile eggs and placed them on the incubator. These eggs hatched on November 19th.  Of the hatching eggs at a total of 20 (19- one died the first week), nine were roosters and 10 hens.  Of the nine roosters, three were kept on the farm. The goal is to use the BCM's as a starter breed to work on exotic egg colors. The BCM breed is dark brown. Along with the BCM's two of the chicks should have olive color eggs and one should have grey egg color.  The hope is to combine the roos with some of BCM's and existing hens (green/blue layers) and attempt to get darker brown eggs and darker olive color eggs, true green, and true red colored egg.

Here are the eggs we started with.

Here is what hatched

The Babies

My son's Dear Aunt Sally visited the HHS farm today. Sally is a teacher in Tahoe USD. 

One of the BCM hens

Two of the roos