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It'll be easy for me to tell which chicks came from which hen as they grow I think. Buddy made the penguin and her white chick is rapidly getting gray on it, whereas the Dingus babies are still all white. I'm placing my bet now that the penguin chick is a cockerel based on being a bold, nippy...

Well yesterday evening was...eventful lol. I think this picture pretty much captures how Dimple was doing. She reaaaally needed a nap after managing 3 bouncy kids that wanted to run around and one newly hached chick that needed to stay under her. And eventually she took a nap...and broody...

#4 is out now. Despite the humidity I think either it was stuck due to being in a bad position or it was on the verge of getting shrink wrapped. After it was crying for a long time, I lifted Dimple slightly to took a look and it was trying really hard to force the shell apart with a foot and its...

Oh dear. Hatch #4 is not going entirely smoothly and it's crying at times as the process goes. Hard to tell, but I think it may have pipped in a weird place. It's opening a progressively larger round window rather than zipping a line around the shell like the other three did. It's around 80%...

So both Dingus eggs hatched unexpected nearly white chicks and one Buddy egg hatched overnight and made a penguin more like what I expected. There's still one Buddy egg unhatched under Dimple. No external pips yet as far as I can tell from brief glances as she shifts it. And one brown egg in...

Well I can already tell Dimple is not going to stay broody long. She's very alert and starting to eat more. I hope the other two eggs under her are hatched tomorrow. Also, Dimple is hoarding the egg shell fragments like nesting material...should I remove those manually now or wait until she's...

I knew thing were going to happen early! Day 20 and... It looks almost white?? Wasn't expecting that from buff x barred but I also don't know much of chick colors.

Lockdown starts today...and I'm pretty sure Dimple is talking to her eggs. I removed the brown eggs and put them in the incubator. I didn't just toss them because, to my surprise, two in particular look darker and the dark mass has largely stopped moving when the egg is shifted. I'm wondering...

Since Dimple has a weird thing about not pooping in her enclosure and I don't want to add shavings over the tarp until after the hatch, I gather I need to stop giving her daily outings on day 19 - is that right? Today is day 16, so two more daily outings for her I guess. The reason I haven't...

I couldn't manage that while feeling like I had a good hold on the egg, but my hands are pretty small. Yeah I don't think there is anything in my four brown eggs :( the 4th one looks no different from the ones I took pics of. My other four lighter eggs practically look solid black and are also...

I think I've only got 4 eggs still going if any of the others were ever going in the first place. The 4 that look good are the Buddy and Dingus eggs. Even the Buddy eggs at this point are VERY dark at the end when candled, similar to the last photo in my previous post. Neither the Buddy nor...

The incubator arrived early and is in good working order as far as I can tell from a brief test. It will both be a backup in the event of a staggered hatch and an option for me to do another round should I end up with zero Chungus chicks this time. Oh, and another nice use for that incubator: I...

Scary event today. Dimple is fine but I'm probably going to have trouble getting her to dust bathe for a while. Took her out this morning for the usual dust bath, snack, and poop routine. She went to dust bathe and then all of a sudden put her feathers down and just wanted a hug super badly. My...

Hmm...where did Dimple go? 🤔

How quickly do the chicks have to be removed after they hatched to keep the hen sitting on the other eggs?

Well this is getting weird now. It still looks like there are two that are way ahead of all the others developmentally. It's day 9 right now and the two Dingus eggs look more like day 12 based on most charts I've looked at, while the others look more like day 7ish. There really appears to be a...

Oh no! Hopefully I can just leave mine be then.

Broody Dimple says hi! Eggs are on day 7 now. After a lot of searching, I've now seen some pictures of other buff orpington eggs that seem as hard to candle as mine, at least to my novice eyes. I've even tried in a pitch black closet now and it doesn't help one bit. I wish I had extra hands to...

Well, I am back to not being able to tell what's going on in those dark eggs. Part of the problem is I don't have long to candle during Dimple's little outings and don't feel comfortable bumbling around in a dark room with an egg I don't want to break. Two dark eggs show an air cell that...

Couldn't resist another candling peek since Dimple seems totally ok with me having a look and I have not watched the development stages before (she gets treats in return for being bothered and seems happy). I have 8 eggs from 4 hens under her. Chungus: 3 eggs since I had significant fertility...