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Johnn, what kind of chick is that? I have one that looks just like it. I know mine is a marans, but not sure if blue or black.

Congrats! It never gets old does it. The thrill of new life and what am I going to get this time?

Congrats, Chickenlisa on your mean broody who did a fabulous job. So what if she was a b***ch, sometimes you just have to be!! I have a pip tonight!!! My BO broody has been finishing up a brood for my silkie because I put day-old chicks under the silkie mama, so was able to put her two silkie...

Congrats on the little one! :jumpy

This hatch didn't go as well as I'd hoped, that's for sure. Can't really explain why I only hatched 2 out of 13 eggs from this last broody. Either it was the eggs, the broody eating them or cracking them open, or bacteria that was introduced when eggs rotted, or a combination of all. I candled...

One of the marans eggs is out. This came from a lighter chocolate egg, so may be a splash. Still nothing on the other 4. Because so many eggs dissapeared and broke/rotted a lot of these eggs had yolk on them which dried. I would pick most of it off, but now wondering if they're compromised...

THANK YOU, Sydney. I did what you said and I think everything is ok. Another egg was open with rotten, green liquid. These are marans eggs, so they were difficult to candle. I know I saw life in some of them, though. I totally swapped out the whole nest box. I built another one and was able to...

My BO broody is hatching eggs today. Day 20. Good and bad news. I came home this afternoon and visited the broody and both OE eggs were close to being born when I looked under mama. So I waited another hour and then went out again and one was fully out, which is the good news. Then I notice the...

Congrats!!!! Have fun today! Last year my rooster was a NH and I hatched out 2 EE eggs and 2 SLW eggs and one BO egg. The BO egg turned out to be the only roo out of 5 and he looked just like a NH, but with white legs not yellow. The other 4 chicks were pullets and they look like NH, but...

It's a blue silkie.

Thanks, Mebberry! If you were in Mich, I'd send you to the guy who helped me out. I also did my own feather sexing of the three yellow babies. I don't have a lot of experience, but read up on this site and I'll see if I picked out pullets. Apparently if there are two rows of varying size wing...

Last night I slipped 6 baby chicks under my broody silkie. I was really nervous, but I did it at dark. 3 of the 6 are silkie babies that hatched yesterday from her own eggs. The other 3 are some I picked up from the guy who incubated the silkies for me. So at dark, I slipped the 3 yellow...

Congrats on your chickies. :clap Still waiting on mine :)

Isn't it great to have confirmation that you "done good?" If it would have gone the other way, you'd be beating yourself up, right?

Ooh, early and five so far. You'll probably have more!!! I'm excited for you. :weee

My UNbroody BO is the proven one who hatched 5 BYM last year. I got hatching eggs locally this year and asked for a doz of BCmaran roo over black, blue, and splash maran hens. And a few OE and EE. She gave me 18 eggs! I knew this broody was new, but I put 13 eggs under her on the 13th, lol...

Haha, too funny. I'm doing the exact same thing. Two BO's. One is on day four and was moved today to her own private broody coop. I think the UNbroody one was going around squawking and looking for her. I kept back some of the extra hatching eggs I was given in hopes that the other BO would...

I HAVE FLUFFY BUTTS!!!!!!! First time bantam siklieX pullet with a mix of cochin and cochin x silkie cross mixes from herself and two other hens.  There are two more bantam eggs under her and one olive egger egg.  The only egg that I don't think will hatch is the olive egger egg.  (you know...

Oops, I meant 4-25. Thanks for catching that.

Thanks! This egg was laid on the 3/25 and I'm saving her eggs in the hopes one of my hens, including her, will go broody. They could really hurry up and give me what I want, lol.