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Congratulations on your chicks. :)

Alex, Zaz has some really nice pictures showing the difference between the males and female peachicks that I always like to refer to.

Well, I finally got some chicks. Got off to a bit of a rough start this year. My first 3 good ones quit at about 3 weeks. It was my fault
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. I had been turning the eggs and dropped the lid to the incubator. I made what I thought was an awesome mid-air ninja catch and saved it. I didn't notice I had turned the dial on it. When I went to turn the eggs that night the temp was at 95. No telling how long it had been that low. They felt warm though so I thought they were okay. One of my eggs that pipped died. It looked like after it pipped it turned around without zipping somehow and cut off it's air supply.

So far I have my bigger incubator full of eggs, like 50 of them. Thankfully this one doesn't have a dial I can accidentally move
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. I'm using the smaller one as the hatcher now. I'll have to order a new incubator this payday since this one is out of room. I'm going to let my ladies keep laying for another 2 weeks or so then let them sit on the rest I think. All the chicks I will hatch this summer already have homes waiting for them. I didn't have as many cancellations as I was expecting so I'll have to hatch a bit more than I was planning on.

Shhhhh...nap time.







In order from oldest to youngest. They were not happy I woke them up for pictures.
 
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Alex150o said:
These are my first 2 peachicks from this season. I started out with 15 eggs, one day i checked the pen and only saw 7!!!!! looked around and found no shells or yolks or embryos or any clue but found nothing. three days ago I only saw 5 of those eggs and one hatched three days ago, yesterday another egg hatched and today...... no more eggs!! I can't find an explanation to my eggs dissapearing. It sucks cause they were so close to hatching :C




Anyway, here are my first two chicks (IB mom, white dad)




I've never sexed peachicks, until its obvious what they are when they are around 1. when and how can I tell what I got?
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I could make a joke here referencing someone who claims to be able to sex at 1 day old, but I'm going to hold my tongue out of respect. Generally with the coloring on your chicks I think somewhere between 2-3 months you will start to see changes in the feathers that will tell you male or female. Males will get more barring on their wings and backs and females will get less, more solid brown. Looks like your flight feathers are white so no help that way. Very cute! As for the missing eggs, what sort of snakes do you have in your area, they will swallow eggs whole leaving no trace behind.
 
SunBaked said:
Congratulations on your chicks. :)

Alex, Zaz has some really nice pictures showing the difference between the males and female peachicks that I always like to refer to.

Well, I finally got some chicks. Got off to a bit of a rough start this year. My first 3 good ones quit at about 3 weeks. It was my fault
sad.png
. I had been turning the eggs and dropped the lid to the incubator. I made what I thought was an awesome mid-air ninja catch and saved it. I didn't notice I had turned the dial on it. When I went to turn the eggs that night the temp was at 95. No telling how long it had been that low. They felt warm though so I thought they were okay. One of my eggs that pipped died. It looked like after it pipped it turned around without zipping somehow and cut off it's air supply.

So far I have my bigger incubator full of eggs, like 50 of them. Thankfully this one doesn't have a dial I can accidentally move
hmm.png
. I'm using the smaller one as the hatcher now. I'll have to order a new incubator this payday since this one is out of room. I'm going to let my ladies keep laying for another 2 weeks or so then let them sit on the rest I think. All the chicks I will hatch this summer already have homes waiting for them. I didn't have as many cancellations as I was expecting so I'll have to hatch a bit more than I was planning on.

Shhhhh...nap time.







In order from oldest to youngest. They were not happy I woke them up for pictures.
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They are beautiful!
 
SunBaked said:
Congratulations on your chicks. :)

Alex, Zaz has some really nice pictures showing the difference between the males and female peachicks that I always like to refer to.

Well, I finally got some chicks. Got off to a bit of a rough start this year. My first 3 good ones quit at about 3 weeks. It was my fault
sad.png
. I had been turning the eggs and dropped the lid to the incubator. I made what I thought was an awesome mid-air ninja catch and saved it. I didn't notice I had turned the dial on it. When I went to turn the eggs that night the temp was at 95. No telling how long it had been that low. They felt warm though so I thought they were okay. One of my eggs that pipped died. It looked like after it pipped it turned around without zipping somehow and cut off it's air supply.

So far I have my bigger incubator full of eggs, like 50 of them. Thankfully this one doesn't have a dial I can accidentally move
hmm.png
. I'm using the smaller one as the hatcher now. I'll have to order a new incubator this payday since this one is out of room. I'm going to let my ladies keep laying for another 2 weeks or so then let them sit on the rest I think. All the chicks I will hatch this summer already have homes waiting for them. I didn't have as many cancellations as I was expecting so I'll have to hatch a bit more than I was planning on.

Shhhhh...nap time.







In order from oldest to youngest. They were not happy I woke them up for pictures.
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Congrats, they're cute!
 
SunBaked said:
Congratulations on your chicks. :) Alex, Zaz has some really nice pictures showing the difference between the males and female peachicks that I always like to refer to. Well, I finally got some chicks. Got off to a bit of a rough start this year. My first 3 good ones quit at about 3 weeks. It was my fault :( . I had been turning the eggs and dropped the lid to the incubator. I made what I thought was an awesome mid-air ninja catch and saved it. I didn't notice I had turned the dial on it. When I went to turn the eggs that night the temp was at 95. No telling how long it had been that low. They felt warm though so I thought they were okay. One of my eggs that pipped died. It looked like after it pipped it turned around without zipping somehow and cut off it's air supply. So far I have my bigger incubator full of eggs, like 50 of them. Thankfully this one doesn't have a dial I can accidentally move :/ . I'm using the smaller one as the hatcher now. I'll have to order a new incubator this payday since this one is out of room. I'm going to let my ladies keep laying for another 2 weeks or so then let them sit on the rest I think. All the chicks I will hatch this summer already have homes waiting for them. I didn't have as many cancellations as I was expecting so I'll have to hatch a bit more than I was planning on. Shhhhh...nap time. In order from oldest to youngest. They were not happy I woke them up for pictures.
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They are so sweet! I can't wait until I get some!
 
You have no idea the size of rats i've seen here. You would think its a rabbit if you look at one from far away until you see their tail. Its possible that a rat took the eggs away, they do that kind of stuff, LOL
 

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