Recent content by lizberry81

So I'm just trying to figure this kid out - he's AMAZING. Black skin & tons of toes so he's 1/2 silkie. Head roo is a bantam mottled cochin, but - though this kid was solid black when hatched - he appears to be LACED?! All Buddy's (the mottled cochin) kids have come out solid black with...

2 months old. Redness. It's a he, isn't it? Seems like all I hatch are roos. 😭

So did anyone actually get a MPC Super Chocolate Egg Layer? I hatched a SCEL and a BCM at the same time. One got sick and I had to cull. I thought the SCEL was the remaining chick, but now I'm starting to wonder: Are SCELs and Black Copper Marans identical or is this really the BCM?

I believe so. Very helpful! Thank you!

Came in a My Pet Chicken assortment.

Ok, I just finished my 2nd hatch and I have 3 birchen marans and 3 black copper marans.... and a ton of lookalikes. I have a lady who wants JUST the marans.... how in the world do I figure out which they are?

Hey, last decaders: my egg o meter displays dashes. I set min and max and took out the battery insulator. I took it out and placed it in a different spot... stilllll dashes.... ?

My BLRW at 4 weeks. So absolutely adorable. I want a girl, but the slow feathering, wing shape and stumpy bum feel boyish.

Same issue. This was Omega. He was already 3 weeks in this picture. He didn't make it.

Came across this thread due to questions about my kid. Hatched *first* and will be 4 weeks tomorrow. Still looks like a big chick. Acts the same as siblings - even does the chest bump thing. Has some straggly wing feathers, but that's it. Came from an egg marked "blue laced red wyandotte."

Aha! A thing I know. Bluish like the Ameraucana egg (didn't hatch.)

My Pet Chicken in the "intense colors" egg assortment.

Anyone want to take a go at this kid? Top pic is at 3 weeks. Hatched from an egg marked "Easter Egger" but if that's an EE, I'll eat my hat. Looks nothing like my other/previous EE babies. Has a giant SPIKEY comb started. Not a pea comb. I am also a total novice so I could easily be wrong...

My first hatch was abysmal. Started with 31 eggs, 17 made it to final lock down. 11 ayam cemanis from Cackle and 7 assorted from MPC. 7 of the cemanis hatched but 2 died 6 of the MPC hatched but 2 died Giving me a grand total of 9 living chicks from 31 eggs (incubator: Farm Innovators 4250)...

Right now they look like lil bitty crows/ravens, but yes 100% black inside and out. The blood is supposed to be blackish, but it's just dark. Probably more like purple (I hope I never find out 😣). Eggs are ivory though so online when pictures show their eggs are black too... incorrect. They...