After moving the last pen outside tonight I seem to also have a trio of whites and one is much taller than the other two,hatched from my black shoulder silver pieds last year. I also have a trio of Opal b/s cause tonight I checked the wingbands on the last group and found another hen. I have...
I was seperating some 1 year olds today and one group was in a very high pen all the time so although I knew what chicks was inside the pen,today was the first time they have met the ground,and me a chance to actually see and sex some of them.One hen I had marked as a Midnight b/s is clearly an...
Yoda, your still ahead of me here. Not one charcoal egg has hatched and very few has been fertile. But I noticed tonight one of my new Opal chicks has white flights which has me ecstatic here,knowing theres hidden genetics within the 2 hens that I hatched 2 years ago,that one of which is the...
Well if it lost 11-13% of it's weight while incubating it would be upper 50's or 60 grams at hatch.Thanks for the condolences but there is many more eggs in the bator and I'm still getting eggs from them. Next year the male should handle 3 hens easily and hopefully he won't be so agressive and...
Well,the second peachick did not make it but it was very dark in feather color.The other peachick looks like your typical run of the mill b/s yellow peachick,,I'm still hoping to get 3-4 more Taupe chicks out and alive this year.I've got plenty of eggs incubating but so far maybe only 35-40% has...
This hatch has given me my first Taupes,,one of which hatched today and appears to be all yellow,so his mom has to be Pipi,my black shoulder silver pied hen,tonight another Taupe has pipped but from what I can see so far it has a lot of darker pigment,so it must be 100% Taupe and hopefully by...
My issues with too small of an incubator have ended here. No more wondering what would have hatched out of an egg that I sold to someone else.O'm very close to ready for 20 plus eggs a day,bring-em on peas!!
Blue Creek, I don't make pets out of my peas here. They are very used to me and are not flighty when I'm around and many I can get within a foot of while they are on their perches or actually touch them and they do not try to get away but imprinting changes the pea and dependency on me which I...
Yoda,forgot to say my first good egg is a Taupe and it will be by itself for awhile as the other 6 eggs put in the same time were no good.But 6 days later it should have plenty of company.