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Thanks. Do you think I need to do anything in regards to the incubator? She's the only one in there. I assume the humidity is not such an issue now? Do you think it will continue to run until manually turned off? I wouldn't be so concerned if I was going to be here to watch it, but since I'm not...

EDIT: She's out! I posted this just before I went out to feed everyone and came back to her mostly out of the shell! I had to help remove the shell from her head as it was sticky, but she was already out of the shell otherwise. :) Now to figure out where to put her when I need to leave today...

I have two and mine lay a pretty pastel blue egg.

I agree it could be a EE as well if it has a pea comb. I remember now that one of my EEs had a similar pattern as a chick. She is a beardless EE.

I can't say for sure, but it reminds me of my silver penciled rock as a baby. I called her Ripley because her chick down color reminded me of fudge ripple ice cream. LOL

Thanks. I knew the chick down wouldn't be barred, but I thought they would feather in as barred as soon as the feathers came in. It's good to know that the barring comes later in single-barred male chicks. Just for a visual, these are photos of him when he was about 6 weeks old (no obvious...

Thanks. I have a question about single vs double barring. I understand that the cockerel is single barred. His barring appears to be confined to his tail, saddle, and hackle feathers. When he was a chick, he didn't develop obvious barring until around 8 weeks. Another cockerel in the same hatch...

These are my two offspring from a Blue Orpington over a Cream Legbar cross. My Cream Legbar hen doesn't have much of a crest, and apparently didn't pass it on. The pullet just started laying olive eggs :yesss: (I was considering adding an olive-egger to my little flock and now I have one). As...

I have two chicks from a Blue Orpington rooster over a Cream Legbar hen. I don't think the pullet is laying yet, but she is solid black just like your girls. The only tell is the tail/tail-set (that's all Cream Legbar) and the off-color earlobes. Her brother, however, got the blue gene from Dad...

It was. I lost them during the time the temp was over 100 for several days. They were in an open air coop/pen (covered dog run panels), but it was just too much for them unfortunately. I think they would have been fine if it wasn't for the 100+ stretch of days.

I lost both of mine this summer during a heat wave. I was quite fond of them, but I don't think I'll get others for a while because of it.

Just to let you know, I was looking up some of the names you sent and it appears Arla Meininger has recently passed. https://newzgroup.com/MILegals/284963-08-09_1001.pdf "The decedent, ARLA MEININGER, died 07/18/2018."

I wouldn't have thought so either. I've just seem multiple references to ducks from Meyer shipping from CA. I look on their site once and saw a Q&A in which they said their waterfowl ships from the west coast. I've ordered chicks from them twice. My biggest disappointments was getting two...

I believe Meyer's ducklings are shipped from the west coast and the chicks ship from Ohio.

This is the Salmon Faverolles pullet I got from Meyer last fall. Unfortunately, I lost both my SFs to heat this year when temps were over 100 for about two weeks. Two waterers and lots of shade, but I lost them on different days while I was at work. This girl was a hoot - I miss having her around.

Now I'm going to be paranoid when I let her out to free range! LOL! I really like her; she's not one of my friendliest birds, but she's not flighty either. She acts pretty confident (for a chicken) - "you can come as close to me as you like, but if you try to touch me, I'll just casually saunter...

Just wanted to post an updated photo. She's not quite as dark as she appears in the pic. It was taken late in the day, which caused the colors to come out darker. But I like this photo because it shows off the variation in her color and pattern. I don't know if it's correct for this variety, but...

I've used an extra large (40") wire dog crate as a brooder and it worked well. I elevated it so I wasn't always leaning over the chicks. The side crate door allows easy access to all corners of the crate (no leaning half-way in to reach the far end). I put cardboard part way up along the walls...

Keep in mind too that the amount of time it takes for you chicks to arrive at your house depends, in part, in the route your mail takes to get to you. My mail goes to a post office less than an hour away, but by the time it gets there, the truck to my post office has already left. That means...

I've ordered from them twice and have had good a good experience. Since I'm in a rural area, I track them as well as I can through USPS tracking. When they close enough to drive, I call my local post office and ask them to ask the other post office to hold them for pick up. Otherwise, it takes...