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So, do you suppose the brown chicks that are feathering silver are cockerels that are silver split to gold? How would a recessive white work with these birds?

I have a question for you folks. I got my stock last year and a few weeks ago, I hatched out my first clutch. The birds are in a pen by themselves and have been since last fall with absolutely no possible way for the girls to have been fertilized by any other rooster except for the Silver...

Looks like a pullet at first sight, but is that wattles I see in the third picture?

I agree. #3 looks to be the only pullet.

Over the course of four days, I lost 10 brand new one week old babies to Coccidia. They were hatched and being raised by a broody hen in a coop that is only used for broody hens and their babies. I started Corid, but the babies were just too young, so it was ineffective against the outbreak...

Poor baby!! I have no advice, but I hope someone comes on that can offer some help. That looks horribly painful.

I love those fluffy butts too! Orpingtons are my favorite breed!

The moms are Buff Orpingtons. The black chicks are Dominickers and the brown ones are Rhode Island Reds.

I just wanted to share a picture of the mama's and the new babies. Thank you so much for your help! All the babies hatched and are doing very well!

There's 2 hens with a total of 10 eggs. 5 have hatched. The hen that this egg was under has 2 more eggs left to hatch.

Thank you! :D

It's out!! It kept pushing and pushing and just couldn't get out. I tilted the egg a little and it pushed most of the way out and that's when I saw it was still stuck in the wing/back area. I peeled the membrane off of that area and out if came. Yolk is fully absorbed and it looks great...

I put neosporin on the membrane where the shell is missing. No veins. So I chipped away around where the air cell was marked. The membrane was completely stuck to the chick. I've never seen shrink wrapping before, but I'm assuming that's what happened. The chick is wiggling and cheeping...

Okay. Incubator is set up and the chick is in it. When I went to get the egg, the membrane is starting to dry out and turning a yellowish brown. How do I know when to help it? It's still chirping, but it's not moved since I last checked on it when I took the picture and posted it.

Yes. Mom is being fine. No issues at all between mom and babies.

All today. The first pip was found this morning. One hatched sometime during the day and the other hatched not too awfully long ago because it's not dry yet.

It is still alive. It's breathing and moving around. I'll go ahead and start the incubator. Why do you think I need the incubator?

I do have an incubator. There were a total of 5 eggs under her, 2 of which have hatched successfully and the shells looked like they normally should after a chick hatches.

This baby is hatching under a broody. It's made a complete mess out of it's egg though. I made the hole at the top so that I knew it could breathe. I made sure to make the hole in the air cell. Anyway, is this okay for the chick to be pecking away at the shell like this? It's still...

You're welcome. It was a great experience buying from them. I have no complaints.