Hello! I have just recently got some lemon blue splash bantam cochin eggs and have them popped in the incubator yesterday. I am beyond excited for these eggs but I think I might have a silly question. From what I understand of Blue/Black/Splash you obviously will default to black or blue if the...
Ok here is a color questions for you. I just hatched out this chick last night and it looks like a partridge? Or not? I have no clue. First home bred chick and the rooster is a dark blue and then the mom is either black or cuckoo. All three are from proven show lines so I’m totally baffled what...
I just hatched these two today and am really puzzled by their color. Mom is a white frizzle and dad is either a birchen or buff cuckoo. Anyone seen any like them before?
A couple of weeks ago my favorite hen, Mumbles, flew the coop while I was at work and something got her. So I did what any logical, grieving, chicken mama would do and bought a new incubator, pulled all the eggs I had from her out of the refrigerator as well as 2 that were still in the coop and...
Hello all! I am in need of some egg color prediction help. I run all my chickens together during the winter and then separate them back out into breeding coops come spring. I bought some Olive egger hatching eggs last spring and had a really poor hatch the resulted in only one hen making it but...
Hi everyone! I have three Silkie chicks that I’m hoping to get hell sexing. In theory I have a Black, Blue, and Barred but I can’t for the life of me tell the difference between the blue and black. They are 3 months old now.
I am brand new to keeping ducks and kind of stumbled into it accidentally. I have a young mallard drake and just picked up a young Welsh Harlequin hen. I got her mostly to just keep him company but then I got to thinking about next spring. The gal I got the hen from said that she uses her hens...
I have this 8 week old chic that I was fairly certain is a cockerel until I read that white leghorns here red combs really really early? He is a full half but by a barnyard mix rooster than I’m fairly certain is Silkie/silver laced Wyandotte but don’t know for sure. Anyway, pretty red but I...
This one a boy? I thought yes but compared to the definite roo I’m going back and forth. 6 week old Cochins, the black one is the one I’m curious about, the lemon cuckoo is 100000% a boy but pictured to so the comparison
What’s everyone’s thoughts on letting a broody hatch shipped eggs? More successful naturally or with an incubator? Or possibly a mix of both?
I have a dozen hatching eggs coming in tomorrow and my current thought is to start them in the incubator until day 3 without turning, and then stick them...
Not sure if this is the place to ask but I figured I would try! I have this three week old Cochin cockerel that has me stumped color-wise. I thought it was a standard buff but it looking barred now that the feathers are coming in..... does anyone have any thoughts if it is barring or just baby...
So reading around it sounds like Cochins can be sexed way younger than I thought? If so then what are your thoughts? I am thinking the frizzle is a hen, the buff is a roo, and the black is ???
the olive egger also hatched with them so no clue if that’s a boy vs girl or too early to tell yet
I really have no preference on breed, EE, Cream Legbar.... random hen. I am just looking for the bluest eggs possible. Shipping to Northern Ca, 96027. Looking for 6-12 ideally. Thank you!
Well, I have gone and done it. I just finished up placing the last of my orders for shipped eggs. Planning to put them in the incubator on 5/15 for a 4th/5th of June* hatch date. Never have attempted to hatch shipped eggs so this could be a train wreck (ok 99% sure it will be a train wreck, but...
Hi everyone! I am attempting my second hatch of the year and am hoping for better luck. First round I had 24 eggs with 4 not making it to lockdown. Then things went sideways and I ended up with 2 chicks hatching on day 21 as planned, and 2 more on day 24 and the rest never hatched. So I have...