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I have Only BCM and when my hens hatched their first clutch I got three white chicks. Some told me that they were Splash Marans, but since I don't have blues or any other kind, I was told that they are a Sport, a genetically different breed than the Splash. They are in fact the precursor to the...

I bought my BCM from a breeder back east who sells eggs or charges for hatching. The chicks from her were beautiful. They are a combination of Little Peddler, Davis, and another famous line Jean something. It is her line that carries the recessive gene for whites. My roo came from the same...

My Black Copper Marans hen hatched a WHITE chick last week. My second setting Black Copper Marans hen is hatching her chicks. Three so far. TWO MORE WHITE ONES! Now I have three white ones. When the hatch is complete, I will be taking pictures of all of them. I have a total of 7 hens and three...

They are not albino, it is a recessive gene that causes them to have white plumage. No pink eyes

Thanks. Do you know anything about them? Do they lay dark eggs like the BCM?

Last Spring and summer I tried to incubate BCM shipped eggs without success. Finally a member told me to get two good adults and they would hatch eggs for me. She was so right! My hen hatched 8 babies and one is the rare WHITE CHICK. Thank you for all your help in the past and now I have two...

.I'm glad that you agree with the 35%. I hatched a batch of Guinea eggs two years ago from shipped eggs. I had about a 90% success rate on that hatch. So naturally I thought that it could be repeated with chicken eggs. Little did I know the difficulty that I was facing. This batch will be my...

I agree and I have already turned the humidity up to 35% from 30 as I had success with that.

All of you are wonderful for your help. We had a power outage last evening due to wind so we immediately turned on the generator to care for the eggs and appliances. That is why I didn't immediately respond to your entries. Today, I candled the eggs and although the air cell was adequate, there...

I'm back! Last night at 10:00PM started day 21. I had my humidity at 30 in anticipation of increasing it once there was a pip. So far nothing is happening. No noticeable movement of the eggs and no sound. I felt like I needed to do something so I increased the humidity to 35 about 2 hours ago...

You have been so helpful. I really appreciate it. Right now the eggs are in lockdown with the saddle up. They are suppose to hatch tomorrow night. I keep checking to see if the "X" has moved at all, but so far no movement. Maybe tonight. I will follow your lead on the next shipment coming...

Ruby, I have another question. On shipped eggs, I see where people are setting the eggs upright in carton with no rotating for the first 4 days in the incubator. I also have seen where they do a hand rotation daily during those 4 days to prevent the embryo from sticking to the wall, but still...

Thank you for all your help. I am going to candle them, double check the location of the saddle, and then lay them on their side with the saddle up. Hopefully, I will get a hatch. I'll let you know. Thanks again.

I increased the humidity to 30 from 25 and now the air cell is consistent with the 14 day size. I stopped the rotation on day 16 and have the eggs in a cut down egg carton. I read that there is better success with an early rotation stoppage on day 16. The cells do not move around so they are...

Darn! That's what I thought, but I held out hope. Thanks for responding.

The chicken on the left is a Black Copper Marans rooster named Gorgeous George. The chicken on the right is also a Black Copper Marans. Her name is Henny Penny. The problem is she crows and is very colorful for a typical hen. She isn't as colorful as George, but she is pretty. Could she be a...

It has now been 14 days since I started incubating my shipped BCM eggs. I set my power humidifier at 25 so that I could do a dry incubation. At 7 days I could not see a air cell in the eggs, but there was a dark area in the bottom of the eggs. I left all the eggs incubating to see what happens...

It has now been 14 days since I started incubating my shipped BCM eggs. I set my power humidifier at 25 so that I could do a dry incubation. At 7 days I could not see a air cell in the eggs, but there was a dark area in the bottom of the eggs. I left all the eggs incubating to see what happens...

That's the direction that I am going also. I am starting g my last batch of shipped eggs. I have day old chicks coming to grow with the one chick that hatched. I will try hatching my own next year. It is just too heartbreaking to take the eggs all the way into lockdown and have the babies not...

I was surprised to to hear that " I run my humidity between 20-30% through the entire hatch". It scares me as I don't want stick chicks from low humidity at lockdown. I am in favor of increasing it to 60 at lockdown also. I even thought about 50%. as a compromise. What difficult choices to make...