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    Who is Hatching for Father's day? 2018

    Here they are, along with a bunch of unhatched eggs. Those will get removed tomorrow
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    Who is Hatching for Father's day? 2018

    At best count I believe we had 8 (possibly 9) hatch. Right now it looks like 4 are black, 2 yellow, and 2 brown. These little guys are so fast to get underneath the hens that it's tough to keep an accurate count. We have an assortment of hens including Polish, Easter Egger, White Leghorn...
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    Who is Hatching for Father's day? 2018

    We had at least one hatch today, went to close up the broody coop and saw that one was now out of the nesting box and on the ground next to the other one (she had wanted the ground and not a box), and there was an obviously unzipped shell with 4 eggs left behind in the box. A quick exposure...
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    Kiki's Horse Eggs 2 HAVE HATCHED!! 1 left to hatch

    Thanks!
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    Kiki's Horse Eggs 2 HAVE HATCHED!! 1 left to hatch

    Very nice chicks! Maybe I missed something, but why are they called "horse eggs" ? Just being goofy?
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    Who is Hatching for Father's day? 2018

    Right now I have 5 broody hens in a flock of 17 +Rooster. I separated off 2 of the hens into a spare coop on May 29th and they are each dedicated to their own nesting box, with 10-12 eggs under each. If any hatch they will be a few days late for Father's Day, but will be a nice bonus addition...
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    EE and White Leghorn cross

    Thanks, that's awful news... 75% +/- were male. Difficult to bulk up my layer flock when my rooster insists on making more roosters!
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    EE and White Leghorn cross

    Thanks, body shots
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    EE and White Leghorn cross

    Any guesses on the first pic? It's visually halfway between the known hens and known males (pics 2 and 3 respectively) but doesn't have any noticeable behavior pattern. 18wks old.
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    Crowing at 6 weeks?!?!

    Easter Egger rooster crossed with White Leghorn, I have 9 babies at 6-1/2 weeks and 4 appear to be male. At least one is already crowing, is this normal? The father crows both day and night. It might already be time to give away the males
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    Correct, I would like to slaughter the males. There are meat maker feeds that state they can be started on day 1, would it be a problem to feed all the birds "meat maker" until I can figure out which are male/female? At that point the males stay on meat maker and the females are separated and...
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    Lucky 13! Is there anything wrong with feeding meatmaker to start with and then switching to regular feed when I figure out who the hens are?
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    Day 23 and another hatched 15 minutes ago, with 2 still externally pipped and breathing. So far out of the 18 which made it to lockdown there were 3 that never internally pipped, and 1 that externally pipped yesterday morning and then quit.
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    Awesome!
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    FEBRUARY Hatch-A-Long 2015:Please Read First Post To Join H-A-L

    White Leghorn crossed with a gigantic easter egger rooster! Up to xxx9xxx nope 10 babies now, a few are off camera
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