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Unfortunately I have no good photos of our rooster, Titus! Never got around to it in time, which is a shame. This is all I have:

Oh yes...... I do have two Maran's. So that could be from them. The Blue Laced Red Wyandotte mix in all of these chicks is going to be really interesting.

the mothers are: Buff Orpington Barred Rock Araucana

thanks! they are cute.

We recently lost our greatest Rooster to a Bobcat. Luckily we had some of his offspring in a bator. They just hatched a couple of days ago. He was a BLRW. Can you guess the mothers?

thanks ascorbic. the one just hatched out of the egg an hour ago and another just popped out 5min ago. The unzipping went pretty swiftly, under an hour. they are all eggs from a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte Rooster we had that was recently taken down by a bobcat which is very sad but at least...

FIrst chick hatched! so many to go!!! Should I take it out of the incubator? Or leave it till the rest hatch?

I hope you're right! otherwise it will be a sad day

let me add to this: I opened the incubator in order to take out the bars keeping the eggs in place. The instructions told me to do this (I am freaking out because everyone seems to say that is a terrible idea). Secondly my little thermometer/hydrometer says 99.4 and 65% humidity. I don't know...

So all my eggs pipped (sp?) last night around 7-8pm on the 19th day of incubation. I took the incubator off of the auto-turn cradle and shut the vents to 1/3 open for extra humidity. I could hear the chicks in their eggs and all was very exciting. It's now 7am, 12hrs later, and nothing is...

thanks for the swift replies! The egg on the right seems almost red/orange to me which is what made me curious. There haven't been any major diet changes but they do free range, eat feed, and get compost scraps. I suppose that can cause all sorts of variations in their yolk color. *Coop...

Can anyone please tell what is happening here. I went away for 5 days and most of the eggs that I came home to have yolks like this or yolks with a white circle in them. They were left in the coop for those 5 days and the weather was pretty hot. Is this the beginning of fertilization?? Is it...

Just found my first egg in the coop today on the floor. It's a shared coop with Chickens and they all get along fine. I would love to see if the Guineas could lay and hatch their offspring. Are there any tips as to how to get them to do it. I have 9 guineas and for sure 2 of them are female...

I'm going to run out and by me some oyster shells. thanks everyone.

thanks IMP:)