Well I only had 10 hatch, I am guessing it was due to the 105.4 Temp when I came home the evening of the 3rd day of hatch. It figures everything was going great t the temperature never fluctuated very much until the day I leave the house and go visit with the folks for a couple of hours. :(
I would Love to join this Years Hatch-a-long! I what I could get out of my old retiring girls, I have a mixed group under the only surviving purebred Mottled Java Roo. This should be interesting.
I have a an olive egger who still occasionally lays eggs like these but the top of the egg is a rough bumpy texture (Olive Green), the bottom was smooth & a different shade of green.
I got a Jumbo egg from my standard girls it was a double yolker, both yolks were huge with very little egg white.
Then a couple of weeks later I get two teeny tiny egg each from a different hen.
from top to bottom
from left to right XL, L (Top Row) Medium, Small (Center) Peewee, ...
Sorry it has been a while we lost our home and had to sell our birds.The answer to my Question is yes, The boys were barred and the girl solid black. I didn't have the boys long enough to get pictures as they sold quickly, but I do have a few pictures or the Daughters. I kept the girls with the...
Sorry it has been such a long while we lost our home and had to sell most of our flocks.
The First D'Uccle color cross is a female, the Silkie D'Uccle cross turned out to be a Boy, he was a slow grower just like my Aunry. Both were bought from me as was most of my flock when we lost our home. It...
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The first picture is of mom and dad they will be turning two this year. The triplets( the next three pictures) I hatched 5 1/2 months ago, so no eggs yet if their are any girls. none of them have a curl on their tail feathers but at what age do they get this? come to mention it i don't...