Having hatched all of those you have mentioned, the best advise I ca offer is this (assuming all are females)
-Welsummers tell tale sign is the dark brown "eyeliner" that runs parallel through their eyes back their head
-Barnevelders tend to be a little darker than the welsummers and will have...
They were in their brooder in my garage. I was out there messing around and heard this noise and was like "what on earth is that". Finally realized it was coming from my brooder so i sat ad watched. Sure enough one little roo was perched on the heater trying to crow. Lol. It was really funny.
Thanks aart! Ive been checking some vents on the pullets that look closest to laying (have 27 hens). Ive never caught one actually laying eggs so i didn't know which ones were actually laying yet (although a few had pelvic bones between 1.5 and 2 fingers wide). Based o the color variation in...
So just last week I got my first egg. Since then Iv'e gotten 7 (1 froze). My question is this (pic below): Do these eggs look like they could have been laid from the same pullet? If not, how many pullets does it look like I have laying? There seems to be quite a color and size/shape variation...
If this is a still air incubator, your temps are a little low. For a still air, temp should be about 102. Also, your humidity is really high for days 1-18. I keep mine around 30-35 for the first 18 and then bump to about 55-60 for the last three days. The low temp explains why your chicks are...