Just hatched these SFH beauties! I have 1 black based, 2 chocolate based and the rest various "chipmunk" coloring. I am new to this breed so I don't know what to expect them to look like when full grown. I was hoping for a blue based but none in this hatch. Anyone know the genetics of...
I have SFH babies! 6 have hatched so far and another 4 eggs currently pipping.
Eggs were incubated using the dry hatch method with around 30-35% humidity for the 1st 17 days. Then around 75-80% the last days along with a temperature between 99.3-99.8. 11 eggs were incubated and I had one that...
I have 11 in an incubator and 5 under a broody hen. I am trying the dry incubation method for this breed. I have never used this method. In my last hatch of olive egger chicks, I had 5 die in the very last day or so. I am suspicious that I had the humidity too high and the air sac was too small