How did you divide the bator? Pictures please...I really want to do this.
WOW!! Extreme eggs from ONTHESPOT **UPDATED PICS**
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All the ones with an O on the top of the egg can go together. They will look and lay the same, just the ones in the olive eggs each have a fifty fifty chance to be homozygous for pea combs/olive eggs and could be crossed on CBM and get ALL olive eggers IF they are homozygous. The Ameracuana chicks will look the same as the olive eggers, but their feet will be dark all the way to the tips of the toes at hatching. The olive eggers have all had pink tipped toes when they hatched. The javas are the cutest of all. They are mostly white, with yellow feet and black spotting/blotches on their head and down their backs. The CBM marked copper black marans will all be black, have a single comb and feathered shanks. The bev eggs should all hatch out and feather in blue or splash, single comb, feathered feet. The lav orps, should hatch out lavender.
Little late now, but "next time" (just in case there is a next time...
) or whoever else buys next time. I tried to make that lot fool proof for identifying chicks when they hatch, for just that reason.
Edit to add, when I separate hatching eggs I put a little plastic basket from the 99cent store upside down over the eggs I want to track, or a strawberry basket works if it is just one egg. Then I mark them on their butts with blue/yellow/green food coloring out of those little squeeze bottles. Works really well!
Edit to add, when I separate hatching eggs I put a little plastic basket from the 99cent store upside down over the eggs I want to track, or a strawberry basket works if it is just one egg. Then I mark them on their butts with blue/yellow/green food coloring out of those little squeeze bottles. Works really well!
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This is so great OnTheSpot, thank you! I have 6 different rubbermaid brooders incase I need that many to keep them sorted. I will buy food coloring before I move them.
I will put up pics when I can of the hatcher setup.
It is an emu hatcher, so there are metal fences or baskets big enough to hold an emu egg. They divided the trays into 8 sections. I took out the 4-way dividers, that made the small 4 compartments on each end, leaving 2 main squares on each tray. 3 trays, 6 sections total. I really like the 'fences' because they keep the chicks from falling or jumping off the trays.
I used 4 of the big hatcher sections and I have one batch in my brinsea little incubator. So five groups of eggs.
1- I put AMs with Presley BCMs since I knew the BCMs, while black as well, would have feathered legs.
2- I put Bev BCMs and LOPs together since the LOPs would hatch silver and again, BCMs have feathered legs.
3- I put Mottled Javas and the olive colored Olive eggers together cause MJs will be yellow and Olives will be BCM color. (these have pipped)- olive eggers have AM and BCM breeding so could have feathered legs, not sure.
4- Red brick eggs bred to be olive eggers are all by themselves, not sure if they will lay olive or green in first gen. OnTheSpot might know. Plus they could have feathered legs.
5- Penedesencas are by themselves in a section.
This is so great OnTheSpot, thank you! I have 6 different rubbermaid brooders incase I need that many to keep them sorted. I will buy food coloring before I move them.
I will put up pics when I can of the hatcher setup.
It is an emu hatcher, so there are metal fences or baskets big enough to hold an emu egg. They divided the trays into 8 sections. I took out the 4-way dividers, that made the small 4 compartments on each end, leaving 2 main squares on each tray. 3 trays, 6 sections total. I really like the 'fences' because they keep the chicks from falling or jumping off the trays.
I used 4 of the big hatcher sections and I have one batch in my brinsea little incubator. So five groups of eggs.
1- I put AMs with Presley BCMs since I knew the BCMs, while black as well, would have feathered legs.
2- I put Bev BCMs and LOPs together since the LOPs would hatch silver and again, BCMs have feathered legs.
3- I put Mottled Javas and the olive colored Olive eggers together cause MJs will be yellow and Olives will be BCM color. (these have pipped)- olive eggers have AM and BCM breeding so could have feathered legs, not sure.
4- Red brick eggs bred to be olive eggers are all by themselves, not sure if they will lay olive or green in first gen. OnTheSpot might know. Plus they could have feathered legs.
5- Penedesencas are by themselves in a section.
Sounds good. The dark O marked eggs should produce hens that lay olive, but genetics being as unpredictable as possible, anything could happen.
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Groovey, will be fun to see
So I did the right thing to keep them separate from the real olive eggers.
thanks so much for the info OnTheSpot!
can't wait to get home, can't wait to get home
Groovey, will be fun to see
So I did the right thing to keep them separate from the real olive eggers.
thanks so much for the info OnTheSpot!
can't wait to get home, can't wait to get home
Dang it all... I just HATE it when work gets in the way of fun things like hatching eggs and brand new chickies! Hope the day has gone by quickly for you.
shouldn't she be home by now?
SURELY there must be one rolled out of the shell already to rave about by now....
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ONE BABY BORN!
one of the Presley BCMs has popped out. She was halfway dried off when I got home. She's of course lonely and chirping.
2 Olive eggs are pipped and 1 Mottled Java.
It's day 20.
Looking good so far.
Really hard to get pics inside the cabinet incubator, especially since I have the egg cartons up to the door and the baby is behind that.
Little black fuzzy baby with a light tummy, Black Copper Marans.
one of the Presley BCMs has popped out. She was halfway dried off when I got home. She's of course lonely and chirping.
2 Olive eggs are pipped and 1 Mottled Java.
It's day 20.
Looking good so far.
Really hard to get pics inside the cabinet incubator, especially since I have the egg cartons up to the door and the baby is behind that.
Little black fuzzy baby with a light tummy, Black Copper Marans.
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Do all of yours hatch out lavender? I had a hatch of 16, and it included 2 or 3 blacks, and 1 very very light yellow mottled. Do you get that with yours?
Do all of yours hatch out lavender? I had a hatch of 16, and it included 2 or 3 blacks, and 1 very very light yellow mottled. Do you get that with yours?
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Yay! What a nice welcome home from work! Now, will your nose be plastered to the 'bator door all evening? I know mine would
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Yay! What a nice welcome home from work! Now, will your nose be plastered to the 'bator door all evening? I know mine would
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