Can someone answer a question for me please. I bought some Wheaton Marans eggs and hatched a single chick on nyd, well she is growing up and has white earlobes, did I get ripped off?
All the girls in my coop are from late winter early spring, they went through a molt in September. It just seems like when we got that storm at the beginning of the week everyone stopped. I'm still wondering if it was caused from the low pressure system that we had. That dang storm lasted from...
Nice...... I think the dark eggs I got from you were dark. I can't wait to hatch them. They are settling in and will go in the incubator Saturday night.
Question for all. Is the white tail feather a gene thing or just something that happens. I have eggs in the incubator that was sired by a BCM with a white tail feather. I kept him through his first molt and thought they were gone, NOPE. I just sold him with some girls that had straw colored...
The same thing happened to me. I now use the top part of the egg carton. Works well. Congrats are hatching of Wynette's eggs you won't be disappointed.
My last hatch of Marans I got from Nancy (bargain), gave me 5 girls and 1 boy. I don't know what I'm doing different this year, I also had the same luck with one of my d'Uccle hatch. The 2nd d'Uccle though, was 3 boys and one girl. As for that major lottery it sounds better when you say 1/2...