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7 are inside under a brooder plate, 3 inside under a broody. With wing length it is hit or miss but I can sex the wheaten based off...

I'm not 100% on all of them, but now they are feathering I can seperate the lighter wheaten pullets from the darker cockerels, the...

Super happy with this hatch. 6 girls 4 boys (forgot to add the fourth boy in the pic) The girls The boys

What a way to end April...three weeks old and Martha's got them on the roost...5' above the ground!

Well here are some pics of the chicks that turned out to be mixed breed. I have 14 now, no internal pips on the 2 remaining eggs in the...

2 pips now, can’t wait for babies!

Put 16 Swedish Flower eggs in lockdown, a couple of the air cells are drawn down and they look ready to go. 2 more days till hatch!

When a hens ovary is damage or they suffer some form of hormone imbalance they dont turn into roosters, they remain hens. the lack of...

All 7 incubator chicks hatched. Lots of wheaten based thanks to the speckled sussex used to introduce the mottling gene (Australian SS...

I have 4 chicks out of 7 in the incubator. The chick that pipped wrong end and hit a vessel hatched (pictured resting) as did another...

They're likely Silkies or Silkie mixes, as I see feathered feet and five toes on one.

My girl Bella now has three chicks, one remaining egg I candled but didnt see movement. My incubator eggs have also started pipping...

My results: This picture is of the chicks that hatched a day early and were removed from the incubators. Yes, I did raise the heat...

Two weeks old... They got fitted this afternoon with new zip-ties, the ones I attached just over a week ago were getting tight.

Hatch day snuck up on me. I gave the chickens treats before bed and checked on my broody Bella and heard a chick chirping in a egg, now...