What's wrong with their feathers? - Page 204

Well poo!! It is our first one so...somehow in my excitement the "fur" seemed so long just thought FLUFFY lol I feel silly but like I said it is our first...another egg is rockin hope it makes it out...as far as vigor this little one has TONS it is cheeping its head off and staggering all over the bator looking for other peeps..I went and checked on him and he had actually climbed back into his own egg and fallen asleep, guess he got tired of looking for others and went to pout...like most babies fell asleep...funny babies...
 

Oh dear - I'm so sorry!! The poor boy!! He was such a good rooster too, a bit timid, but really loved his girls.     

Yes, the top photo are Fluffy and the bottom looks normal smooth.  You can tell on these birds pretty much as soon as they dry!

CONGRATS to everyone who hatched chicks!! Someone should start a count and see how many you're all up to!! 
 

I have been checking their wings hourly since they hatched, lol. I hatched a total of 6 chicks- 3 splash and 3 blue. I have 2 blue and 2 splash showing silkied feathers and 1 blue and 1 splash showing smooth. No way can this be right- I only had a 25% chance of silkied feathers. Is it possible the silkied chicken Gods are smiling on me?

On another note, none of my Lavender Ameraucana eggs hatched

So, first priority is to find me some Lavender Shaffer eggs!!!! 

Ladyfaeden-     You got exactly what you needed!!!! Nice.

Chick-among-us- How did the rest of the hatch go???

Trish

Hi ya'll thanks for all the inquires about the hatch well the results are in and the only chick is the one that hatched alone...now living in the Valentines hatch...ALL the line A eggs were clear, big fat yokes never developed. ALL the line b eggs developed and even the two rocking pipped thier air cells and never hatched. the remaining B line eggs just died I guess everyone was a different color and frankly made me sick to see. I totally expected mortality, but not a complete graveyard, after reading of the success from alot of you guys, thought our chances were a bit better. After seeing 5 fully formed chicks die,it is disheartening,but 7 duds is almost unheard of out of 13 eggs and ALL of them line A's is weird too...I dunno. I know where to get some eggs though now so it will work out I am sure. Just is gonna take alot longer than we thought but we arent in a hurry...

Chick-among-us is only a few hours from me.  I have plans to get her more eggs and chicks from my hatches here in the next few weeks.  Her eggs will travel but not by the post office so should be in good shape. My next set goes in the bator tomorrow.  Current set of 6 eggs are hatching now .  I have 2 hatched this morning, 3 more trying and 1 that I added a day late that should be by tomorrow.    I started with 7 eggs, 1 was not fertile and tossed early.  The other 6 have all made chirps today so hopeful for a good ending.  Had humidity trouble up til lock down and only started lock down Thursday and early hatching.  The 2 hatched did it fast with no help.

 Alicefelldown thank you so much for this info!

I have been checking their wings hourly since they hatched, lol. I hatched a total of 6 chicks- 3 splash and 3 blue. I have 2 blue and 2 splash showing silkied feathers and 1 blue and 1 splash showing smooth. No way can this be right- I only had a 25% chance of silkied feathers. Is it possible the silkied chicken Gods are smiling on me?

Hi - all the eggs I sent out were Fluffy x F1, so 50% fluffy and 50% smooth carriers.  The 25% is when you use F1 x F1, which is not something I used due to the non-carrier smooth birds that can hatch.  From the auction you got eggs from:

Hi ya'll thanks for all the inquires about the hatch well the results are in and the only chick is the one that hatched alone...now living in the Valentines hatch...ALL the line A eggs were clear, big fat yokes never developed. ALL the line b eggs developed and even the two rocking pipped thier air cells and never hatched. the remaining B line eggs just died I guess everyone was a different color and frankly made me sick to see. I totally expected mortality, but not a complete graveyard, after reading of the success from alot of you guys, thought our chances were a bit better. After seeing 5 fully formed chicks die,it is disheartening,but 7 duds is almost unheard of out of 13 eggs and ALL of them line A's is weird too...I dunno. I know where to get some eggs though now so it will work out I am sure. Just is gonna take alot longer than we thought but we arent in a hurry...