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This is exactly what my chicks looked like when they arrived but they also use the same photo for the Black jersey giants so 🤷🏼‍♀️. I’ve only found a couple pics of blue giant chicks on other pages and they are lighter chicks but I am sure they can vary quite a lot.

I had been in contact with them about a week after I got them to see if they could help me identify them since I was splitting an order with a friend and wasn’t sure what I had. They weren’t 100% sure either but I also don’t blame them too much as chicks can def look similar early on.

It is Mt. Healthy and they had been very nice to me when I added on to my order the week before they shipped and all birds are healthy. I had ordered some cream legbars and a black copper marans which arrived correctly and then there was supposed to be 4 Rhode Island blues and 1 blue Jersey...

I have a question about a wrongly filled order of chicks. I realize this year was a big year for all hatcheries so don’t want to be petty but I am 90% sure my order got messed up and I got the wrong breeds for some of it. They are all very healthy and I’m pleased with that. The question is, if...

Thank you! I am wondering if the two other black birds that now have some brown on their chests are the RIB birds. Time will tell!

Thank you so much for all that info! I really appreciate it. They do all have mostly dark legs but a little willow at toes and the soles. Then there is this odd one out that is colored pretty much the same but has yellow eyes. The other 4 that appear to be the same breed (pos giants) have dark...

Hi All, I wanted to see if there was any chance any of these are a blue Jersey giant. I am thinking my order got messed up at the hatchery but I don’t know if it’s possible any of these black birds will molt later and turn grey/blue. They are 4 weeks old right now. I will also attach a chick...

My first eggs have hatched! We are excited but I am wondering when I should take the ducklings out and the eggs shells. There are two left to hatch and they are being moved all around. Not sure if that is a problem or not.

I am hoping to get a quick answer to this question as it didn’t occur to me until last night. 🤦🏼‍♀️ I have a nurture right 360 and we reset it for 28 days for hatching ducklings. At the end of the 28 days will it stay on for another couple days like it does for chicks or do I need to reset...

I bit the bullet and made a choice. I took the egg out. I did open it to be sure (although it would be awful if I was wrong! But figured it was important I know for future eggs-and I was 99% sure it was gone). It was, in fact, a dead duckling with brown fluid around it. I thought I would update...

I candled again tonight. I don’t see any movement from the duckling like the other eggs. There are still veins present but in the more yellow area right above the air cell it is liquidy. Like when you slightly twist the egg back and forth over the light you can see liquid moving about in there...

I will recheck tonight when it’s darker to evaluate better. There are no bruises on the outside of the egg and I didn’t see any movement. I just don’t want it to explode while I’m in lockdown if it’s that kind of issue. But of course don’t want to kick it out if it’s alive still. The others are...

Hi All, this is our first batch of duck eggs to incubate. We are on day 25 and there is one egg I am certain stopped development but I want to make extra sure before I move it along. I wanted to move it out before lockdown. The others are all fully dark on the duckling end and some movement in...

Thank you! I thought I saw that but wasn’t sure since seeing other pics of much more dramatic bullseye. I stored them in a carton on my counter for 7 days and set them on the 8th day. Is that too long for ducks? The biggest temp change would have been from outside to in the house. They lay in...

I am brand new to incubating eggs and had 13 duck eggs in the incubator for 10 days (I wanted to be extra sure before I removed them 😂) None developed and I’m trying to figure out if they were ever fertilized. And if they were, did they get too cold before they were collected each day and maybe...