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Ok thx

Had a rough 1st incubation with a cheap incubator and only 1 chick was viable/hatched. This chick is now a week old in the brooder and doing well. Chick isn’t loud or attached to me - I put a few mirrors in there and a plush animal and some string and occasionally I’ll play chick sounds for it...

No movement that I noticed.

Seems under-developed for 14 days but not a quitter as I can vaguely see the outlines of an embryo? Sorry for the picture quality.

Appreciated, thx!

Had only a few viable eggs in the incubator now hatching. Is it possible to start incubating a new brood now and eventually co-raise the two sets of chicks 3-weeks apart in age in a combined brooder (once there is no longer need for a heat lamp w/different temps)?

Argh, thanks all. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/beautiful-calm-easter-egger-roosters-need-a-good-home-south-louisiana.1503936/

Hey y'all! I'm in the New Orleans area and just added to the flock - half the chicks sexed as female bought from a local retailer are cockerels. Looking to RE-HOME for FREE one or both of my beautiful calm Easter Egger roosters. 18 weeks old - beautiful speckled - one a shimmery greenish...

18 weeks old - beautiful speckled - one a shimmery greenish black with gold fringe and another very calm one cream with brown spots (no crowing!). Can drop off either one or both if within 150 miles. Black: https://1drv.ms/u/s!ArU9Fl9U_6OdshcG0o-m7PYx9ooc?e=MEielo Cream...

Thank you! So much for buying sexed chicks from a retailer.. The other EE is not crowing or expressing dominance but similar feathering - is it a cockerel too?

Bought at Tractor Supply which had supposedly sexed as a female, but at 18 weeks has developed dominant behaviors and rooster-like feathers. Is confusing because no EE red wing tip feathers, and is crowing a “strangulated” crow.