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I just went through this with my friend's rooster. She still isn't getting fertilized eggs. We incubated multiple times and opened so many eggs. Some eggs really do look like there is a clear bullseye even when they aren't ferilized. I don't have a rooster in my flock so I started cracking mine...

May hatch-a-long is already up! Feel free to join us!

I love that name for a scissor beak chicken!! That's so cute!

No, it's my understanding that it's a deformation of the skull. That's also why it gets worse as they grow. Sometimes they're mild and you don't need to do much of anything. Other times you may need to trim the beak on occasion or supply wet feed so that it's easier for the chicken to pick up...

This pictures are great!! So cute!

Great! I hope to see you in another hatch-a-long! ;) I don't know if I was supposed to but I did send her a message. lol

I'm sorry your Easter hatch didn't work out! Fingers crossed your next hatch makes up for it!!

Thanks! I hope so too! These are her early season layers so I'm also checking fertility on a couple of her pens for her. I'm not expecting a great hatch but she said will replace them if they don't hatch. Which would mean that I'm again not going to be turning my incubators off...I have a...

So my Easter hatch was a grand total of 45 eggs set and 30 chicks hatched! Two hatch dates so close together made it feel like the longest hatch EVER! I think I'm done for the year...at least until after the virus passes...well and after I hatch the Peafowl eggs that my friend traded me for some...

Thank you! I submitted some pictures from earlier hatches already but I may try again with these next year! ❤

My hatch is finally complete! I was reminded just how much I dislike staggered hatches, lol! BUT! I now have 24 precious little fluffy Ameraucanas joining my Bantam Silkied Cochins in the brooder! I had such a great hatch that I'm going to have to set up another brooder because they're crammed...

Good morning and Happy Easter! Congrats on all of the great hatches! I wasn't on much yesterday but I loved scrolling through the pictures this morning! :love My second wave of chicks are hatching! I see about 16 pips out of the remaining 24. Number 25 popped out silently last night waaaay...

All 6 of my Bantam Silkies Cochins hatched yesterday! I will take some fluffy pictures later today. I'm going to drop off some other chicks at a couple friend's houses today and since both of these friend's have beautiful breeding flocks I'm hoping they won't have any eggs available for me...

I LOVE your light chick! I'm pretty stunned that I hatched a blue baby too. lol! It's much bigger than the other two black chicks that have hatched...what are the chances that it's a girl? :lau Watch, we'll both get super lucky with unexpected colors and they'll both be boys.

No worries! I got excited about the idea of tiny Marans. lol, I'm sure they already exist, I've just never seen them. :p

These are bantams??? What kind of bantams? Marans??? EDIT: Nevermind I see you edited the post. Those are nice dark shells!

Thanks! My local friend and @pipdzipdnreadytogo are actually the only two people I know with the Bantam Silkied Cochins but I know there are more hiding out there somewhere! lol

Bantam Silkied Cochin #2 is hatched! They're so tiny but even with them being so small it's hard to see how they fit in the even smaller eggs, lol! I see 3 more out of 5 eggs that are externally pipped. 1 of the remaining 2 is the egg I don't expect to hatch but hoping to see a pip soon in the...

I agree, I find some of the olive eggs harder to candle than dark Marans.

Sure! This is the breeders picture. They're actually not a cross. They're 100% Bantam Cochins that have barbless feathers. Not my breeding group. They're from a family friend of mine. This was my first time hatching eggs from her flocks. I'm having ok results! I started with 12 of the Bantam...