Updated photos of my 8 week old trio. Thoughts on hens vs rooster? I think the gold colored one is a hen but not sure about the black and splash. They are all “olive eggers” apparently.
These three hatched 6 weeks ago. All apparently olive eggers. Thoughts on if any will actually lay an egg? Black, Gold and White. The black one looks BCM to me.
All of the eggs were put under her at the same time. I candeled midway and was unsure about a couple of them but one of the unhatched ones definitely looked viable then. We put the eggs down where she is now closer to the food and water. We will see what today brings! This is my first...
My hen was sitting on 6 eggs in a nesting box. Yesterday on Day 21 two hatched. Today is day 22 and she has now moved down from the nesting box with the chicks. Does this mean these others eggs won’t hatch? I put them down where she is now just in case? First time hatching chicks!
Excellent! We leave tomorrow morning and so far 2/7 hatched today. We are only gone 2 days so I suspect mama will be sitting for those days anyways waiting for others to hatch and these to dry off
Let me know how it goes, I’m in the exact same scenario as you but July 15 is our hatch day. This is my first time doing this and clearly didn’t have the timing right! It’s my head hen too, residing with 2 other hens in the coop.
Thoughts on what may have taken my hen? She was taken from inside a fence. There were 6 other birds in the coop with the door open but they weren’t touched. She was likely outside as the other flock had been giving her the cold shoulder and excluding her. It happened around dusk or shortly...
My husband told me he saw it crow so we gave it to a local farmer. Latest update is that the farmer thinks it’s a hen. The other chocolate that we bought back home was also re-homed to the same person. She says that one is definitely a roo
Interesting! I also have a lavender who we thought was...