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rainbowchick, your girl has a good mama

Awe, sorry most for your daughter's loss. Time for the old "powers that be thought that chick was so special it was wanted in chick heaven right away" talk.

@ Chic Phil A Sorry, I don't know about broiler, or meat birds, but I did see a thread about feeding them when I searched here under "feeding meat birds." There are threads there which might be helpful.

Cute Chicks! I don't quite understand your question. You do want to use a "Chick Starter" of some kind, and not switch to "regular feed" until the feed package indicates it. Do you plan to slaughter the birds after a couple of months?

@scflock Yeah, the suspense is killing me to know if my solo hatch is male or female, and since it is from imported English Orp lines, I have had no luck feather sexing with this breed, but I am still looking anyway.

Didn't keep me from trying, Orphingtons, :D and yeah...I was wrong completely last hatches. (and ended up with 6 roos and one hen.) I think the produciton birds were bred to be easy to feather sex, and some of the heritage breeds may just not work with the technique.

No problem, let us hear in six months if it crows or not. :D

I am just learning. I am looking for two rows of feathers on the wingtip. The "upper row" when the wing is upright are from primary feathers. The lower row when the wing is upright are to be convert feathers. There are differences in how "fast" these things feather in males or females. In...

I am with you, Minihorse....here's the old Monty Python version, might help you pass a minute or two before lockdown:

My guess is roo, but my guess is not worth much.

best wishes to all hatching here.

Thank you, Gogetter, just the info and the answer I wanted to hear. I hate humidity...on a clear day it can be 80 percent outside, and half that inside...regular here. (People move to your state to get away from humidity here, lol.) So it was all "new" to find the humidity so low....and now I...

I stuck an egg in my mini bater 21 days ago to see if the rooster was fertilizing my hens. I hatched out one chick tonight, and have rigged a brooder. I notice the humidity in this usually humid house is very dry....wood burning stove has been cranked three days due to cold snap. The humidity...