🍃August Hatch-a-Long🍃

[kelseyk]

Quick question for those of you who have had CCL chicks. When mine hatched I was pretty sure I had 6 cockerels and 1 pullet...but there was 1 cockerel that was a bit different and I kind of wondered. This particular chick did not have the spot on its head. It was a lighter chick with a dark partial stripe on its head (did not run all the way down its back). Anyway, the cockerels are starting to get noticeably bigger combs now...but this one still has a smaller comb. Could it possibly be a pullet? First pic is of the chicks as day olds (arrow points to the chick in question). 2nd and 3rd pics are close up of the chick in question this morning. 4th pic is of all my CCL chicks this morning.

 

[RoseHawke]

Personally I'd say that's a cockerel, but after having several pullets turn into roos I wouldn't trust anything I said at this point.

 

[TheBajan]

Quick question for those of you who have had CCL chicks. When mine hatched I was pretty sure I had 6 cockerels and 1 pullet...but there was 1 cockerel that was a bit different and I kind of wondered. This particular chick did not have the spot on its head. It was a lighter chick with a dark partial stripe on its head (did not run all the way down its back). Anyway, the cockerels are starting to get noticeably bigger combs now...but this one still has a smaller comb. Could it possibly be a pullet? First pic is of the chicks as day olds (arrow points to the chick in question). 2nd and 3rd pics are close up of the chick in question this morning. 4th pic is of all my CCL chicks this morning.
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I have actually wondered about this with some of my Bielefelders as well as one of my CL. My cream legbars look different than yours. Mine are all developing their crests but I don't see a noticable difference in their combs yet.

 

[wolfwalker]

Quick question for those of you who have had CCL chicks. When mine hatched I was pretty sure I had 6 cockerels and 1 pullet...but there was 1 cockerel that was a bit different and I kind of wondered. This particular chick did not have the spot on its head. It was a lighter chick with a dark partial stripe on its head (did not run all the way down its back). Anyway, the cockerels are starting to get noticeably bigger combs now...but this one still has a smaller comb. Could it possibly be a pullet? First pic is of the chicks as day olds (arrow points to the chick in question). 2nd and 3rd pics are close up of the chick in question this morning. 4th pic is of all my CCL chicks this morning.

Looks like what my Golden Crele Legbar chicks started like.

 

[kelseyk]

I haven't updated on what is happening in my incubators or hatcher for a while - left off with the blue birchens and opal legbar.

Well 2/3 BBM hatched, but I lost one of them to an unabsorbed gut. The single Opal Legbar did not hatch. The Gold Cuckoo Marans eggs were all duds before reaching the hatcher as were the Blue laced barnevelders, the welsummers, and the bresse eggs from Georgia. I set 2 silver deathlayer eggs in the hatcher on the 4th and woke up to 1 externally pipped this morning. I set 9 bresse eggs from Texas in the hatcher today, but I think 1 may be a late quitter. Isbar/Silverudds will get set in the hatcher tomorrow.

In the incubators I have cooking: Araucanas, BCM, Salmon Favorelle, Wheaten Maran, Swedish Flower Hen, and Speckled Sussex. All the CCL eggs from Alabama were either clear or blood rings on day 7 and one of them was starting to smell a little - all 5 have been removed.

I have on the way (should all hopefully be here by Saturday): Isbar/Silverudd, 2 sets of CCL from 2 different sellers, Red Pyle Phoenix Bantam, and another batch of Silver Deathlayer. I will be ordering another set of Pita Pintas next week.

ETA: Fixed typos

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Quick question for those of you who have had CCL chicks. When mine hatched I was pretty sure I had 6 cockerels and 1 pullet...but there was 1 cockerel that was a bit different and I kind of wondered. This particular chick did not have the spot on its head. It was a lighter chick with a dark partial stripe on its head (did not run all the way down its back). Anyway, the cockerels are starting to get noticeably bigger combs now...but this one still has a smaller comb. Could it possibly be a pullet? First pic is of the chicks as day olds (arrow points to the chick in question). 2nd and 3rd pics are close up of the chick in question this morning. 4th pic is of all my CCL chicks this morning.
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I've hatched CCLs multiple times but I can't say I've ever had one so undecided before. My pullets have always been dark and the cockerels light, so I would initially think cockerel but that one looks a different shade than the others entirely. I wonder if there was a wandering Rooster? I've had that happen like 3 times this year, one random mixed chick in multiple hatches. Lol

 

[Mvan42]

Babies due sunday...... eeeekkkkkkkk

 

[kelseyk]

I've hatched CCLs multiple times but I can't say I've ever had one so undecided before. My pullets have always been dark and the cockerels light, so I would initially think cockerel but that one looks a different shade than the others entirely. I wonder if there was a wondering Rooster? I've had that happen like 3 times this year, one random mixed chick in multiple hatches. Lol

That would shock me as these are foxfire chicks. She doesn't strike me as one to let a rooster go astray. But I suppose it could happen to anyone. It is a really pretty chick!

 

[FortCluck]

Babies due sunday...... eeeekkkkkkkk

Me too

 

[kelseyk]

The first Deathlayer chick has hatched! The other egg is rocking.