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We got our start in chickens b/c of my daughter. When she was 8, I had a sci camp & hatched eggs. My daughter wanted to keep them & joined 4H. I had fun building an incubator from household materials, but she's the one who does all the current hatching experiments. (She has won best in show...

Both chicks we kept are pullets & should be laying any day now. (Of course reduced hours of daylight isn't helping.....) We're from the Chicago area.

Thanks. They're the prettiest chicken-mutts around.

Just to let everyone know how it turned out...... Here's my hen, "Hope." She's HUGE. it took 8 mo for her to lay her 1st egg. We had a lav orpington roo & decided to hatch some of Hope's eggs. Here are her 2 pullets. They look like lav orps. This is Sweetie. She has Hope's round...

Roo has been my guess, but I was really hoping for a pullet. I had 8 CS embryos alive on day 18, but this was the only shipped egg that hatched. Every air cell was completely detached when they arrived. What age should I expect to see hackle & saddle feathers?

10.5 weeks and I'm still not sure. Comb & wattles look red, but the comb is rather small. Any predictions?