Recent content by Kwoka

I’m sorry your poor chick is going through this, but that’s definitely not going to heal. That’s exposed bone on both sides for sure. Some just aren’t meant to be in this world. I’ve euthanized chicks using very sharp scissors, just a quick snip through the back of the neck and it’s over. It...

Some of the older pullet chicks are teaching a group of new babies how to eat and drink. My son chose his favorite chicks to keep in his room, mostly splash and chipmunk babies. Dang it I really don’t like having chicks in the house, but he loves them. lol I’m vacuuming and dusting constantly...

Day 20 and I have 5 chicks already. The little chipmunk chick has a pea comb!!! (And a head spot…) I hatched already over 30 from that coop and not a single one has had a pea comb until now. So this means my little blue Araucana boy got lucky with a Sapphire OE lol my adorable little manlet 🤪...

6/9 hatched so far. Looks like I got a couple more splash babies 😍 a nice BBS mix and so far only one with a head spot (that I can see)

I wish I could find blue bresse here! I might try to order some eggs from Germany when the weather is nicer. It’sa big gamble tho… I went crazy with my staggered hatching too 🫣 I have 9 in lockdown now, with pips, another small set still cooking for a hatch on the 22nd, and then 33 eggs set to...

personally, I would bring them in. That being said, I’m over in Europe with outside temps about -9C(16 F) and I have my week-olds, as well as 2 day-olds in the house until the cold snap passes. I have an attached garage that’s currently 8C(46F) and I won’t even move them there yet, because I’m...

i had two aggressive roosters that made it to 1 year old before they ended up as chicken adobo, because they couldn’t leave my kids and in-laws alone. They respected me and my husband, but they were still a threat to anyone else on the property. During processing I saw that they both had HUGE...

Update on the babies from Jan 4 and Jan 8 hatches. These are a just a few that were visible at the time. I think there are 35 total, so I have two brooders set up because I have so many lol…and still two incubators full of 48+ eggs 🫣 I need someone to stop me. I sold my two beautiful Wyandotte...

Sorry about the bad luck and loss of the chick 😢 shipped eggs are such a gamble. You also never know how healthy or inbred someone’s breeding birds are, especially for purebred less common colors. I also lost a chick from this hatch 😕 first time I’ve lost a chick on day 3. It was a Blue copper...

Results from hatch date 4th Jan 2024 31 eggs in lockdown, 4 quitters (probably quit on day 14 or so), 27 healthy chicks. Idk where the heck the two gold chicks came from. I was checking the chicken genetics calculator for my mixes, but nothing like that was predicted. They came from green...

Sorry for your loss! 😭 but that is a gorgeous egg!! I hope you get a nice pullet from that. I have a bunch of 4 am hatchers screaming down the hall 😵 they’re cockerels, too, because the BCM/OE(barred) and BCM/CCL are black/blue sex-links. Thanks, boys. 🙄

OK sorry for the spam, my kids and I are just really excited about these babies. Each egg is a surprise! Idk how I got a gold/chipmunk baby out of these green eggs - that coop only has BlueCopper Marans and Blue/Red Araucana roos, and the OE girls are cuckoo/barred or blue…perhaps one of my...

Two babies on the green/blue side! One is a black and yellow penguin baby from a speckled green egg, the other a silvery blue…not sure if splash or just light blue 🤷‍♀️ i may have been mistaken about who lays those speckled green eggs tho 🤔 I guess we’ll see in a couple weeks because the 2nd...

We have our first chick! 🐣 looks like Marans/Dark Shell or Marans/Marans because it has really fuzzy legs. There’s another pipped dark brown egg as well

Ahhh! We have a day 19 pip and squeaking! I really hope this one hatches tonight before my husband has to leave for Alaska tomorrow morning 🫣 he’s missed every other hatch so far, and was kind of disappointed that day 21 was a day after he leaves. I couldn’t set them before because we had been...