Here they are! Interestingly the Ca/white eggs 3 seem to have black specks in them like austra whites and one has red specks. I do have a rir and austrlorp rooster but he is young I didn't think he'd mated them! The welsummer babies are def the reds. They even got the reddish beaks how cute!!!
Okay so far 4/7 have hatched. One is not moving much after pipping, one pipped at the wrong end and I may try to assist them after these ones dry out if nothing has happened yet. The last one I kinda thought was an early quitter. I could see feet and a beak but they were way at the small end of...
Okay the first one that pipped is out, the one who pipped an hour after him is still totally motionless. And the newest one to pip is poking around again already!!! Ahhhhhh the suspense is killing me!
I had my first day of over a dozen eggs and I got 14! I have 16 hens and not all of then are laying but were close! Stoked for my first realization of a dozen eggs a day.
Just went into lockdown. I saw movement in three, the two brown were too dark still and the other two I could see forms but no movement... but veins looked good so i locked them all down.
One I think may have quit or was sleeping no movement at ALL. But it wasn't cloudy and no blood ring no...
I'm two days from lockdown on 7 eggs in my brinsea mini adv. All the eggs look great today besides one super dark welsummer egg. I'll water candle it in two days. Getting excite!!!! Excites to make babies from my cal whites they lay eggs every single day. Haven't stopped once since they started...
I started a batch in a brinsea mini adv I got on marketplace for $50 from my chickens on Feb 1.
5 California white hen with RIR roo eggs and
2 Welsummer hen with RIR roo eggs.
Candled them just now all are developing I'm pretty sure, one of the speckled eggs is very hard to see through but...
Also just remembered the one who is HUGE and has the lopsided waddle sizes like ones an inch long as the other 1/4 -1/2 took like twice as long to get his feathers in.
I have a pair of BA cockerels (actually 3) I have now named gomez and fester because fester stands like that too all fatty no neck. Now today is thier 2 month bday and they look fine normal but are MUCH larger than the 3 pullets. The third one I have I thought was maybe a jersey giant or just...
Time to clean the littles grow pen but first let me grab some update photos! Seems like I was right on with my original guesses for sex I have 4 barred rock pullets, 5 rir pullets, 3 BA pullets, two cockerels that were marked as cockerels as extras and one BA that is a BIG bird so big I was...
I ordered 15 chicks from hoovers this year. 5 RIR, 5 Black Australorp. 5 Barred Rock. I got two extra BA Roos, so 17 total. One BA died in the first day, and another barred rock within a week that had choked on water. One additional BA was male as well. the remaining 15 are now almost 6 weeks...