Ok, he has got a little darker now, and the other one I thought was going to be White turned out to be a Buff! Yay! He is sooo light so he must be a boy. Here is another picture.
The only sure way to sex them is by their call.
Sometimes it can help to look at their wattles, the boy should have big cupped wattles and the hens should have flat wattles. Now, this is not a sure way of sexing the bird because...
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Yay, congrats, 2 keets! May 2nd will be 28 days, I have had keets hatch on day 25 before tho. What's the temp set on the Sportsman? Even a half degree higher can make your...
I found this little surprise in the incubator! I must have calculated the days wrong...not the first time.
I am soooo excited!! Can't tell the color for sure yet but it looks like a Pied Brown. The second one looks like it might be...
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How big of a space do you have them in? They are in a 250- 300 square foot pen and then they have their coop.
Have the hens ALWAYS ate their eggs? No,...