2019 may hatch a long!!!!!!

[MagpieDucks]

Finally got around to candling. I had one quitter with the bantam eggs. I didnt really try to see in the marans though. 31 eggies going into hatch.

Are they all pure or mixes?

 

[Rose Quartz]

Are they all pure or mixes?

I dont really know. She has 3 roos. 1 bantam boy. A black copper marans and an EE, the EE is all black. So im not likely to know if the marans are crosses. The blue and green eggs are atleast half EE. If not all, but that doesnt matter much to me at all. Most likely they're all mixes, because the EE and BCM got in a fight and the BCM was limping from it.

 

[MagpieDucks]

I dont really know. She has 3 roos. 1 bantam boy. A black copper marans and an EE, the EE is all black. So im not likely to know if the marans are crosses. The blue and green eggs are atleast half EE. If not all, but that doesnt matter much to me at all. Most likely they're all mixes, because the EE and BCM got in a fight and the BCM was limping from it.

Does the EE have a pea comb? That could tell you something.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I dont really know. She has 3 roos. 1 bantam boy. A black copper marans and an EE, the EE is all black. So im not likely to know if the marans are crosses. The blue and green eggs are atleast half EE. If not all, but that doesnt matter much to me at all. Most likely they're all mixes, because the EE and BCM got in a fight and the BCM was limping from it.

When you cross a blue egg layer with a Marans you get 1st generation olive eggers so if you have blue and green eggs I believe you should get 1st and 2nd generation olive eggers. Sometimes they end up having some really beautiful shades of green. I have a 2nd gen olive egger that I'm really hoping for an avocado colored egg from!

 

[MagpieDucks]

When you cross a blue egg layer with a Marans you get 1st generation olive eggers so if you have blue and green eggs I believe you should get 1st and 2nd generation olive eggers. Sometimes they end up having some really beautiful shades of green. I have a 2nd gen olive egger that I'm really hoping for an avocado colored egg from!

Granted of course, that the green/blue eggs were fertilized by the Marans cockerel.

 

[Rose Quartz]

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Does the EE have a pea comb? That could tell you something.

have no clue. they're free ranged and he was off in the woods.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Granted of course, that the green/blue eggs were fertilized by the Marans cockerel.

I guess I was just thinking even if they're mixes she's sort of still going to get a pure breed of something. Whether an Easter Egger, Olive Egger, or Marans from the sounds of it. Right? I'm still pretty new to learning the genetics end of things...

 

[Rose Quartz]

Granted of course, that the green/blue eggs were fertilized by the Marans cockerel.

true.

 

[Spartan22]

Ok guys finally got a photo of the 6 chicks that was hatched by the broody hen, she was protecting them like a hawk.
Good news also from the Brinsea incubators, 4 pipped last night and when I woke up this morning 9 hatched @day 21 and 5 more pipping except one seems like pipped on pointy end, there’s total of 30 eggs hoping for great hatch.

There’s 3 Leghorn/Marans mix, 2 Olive Eggers and a Black Copper Marans, pretty excited for healthy chicks on day 4.

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[CluckNDoodle]

Ok guys finally got a photo of the 6 chicks that was hatched by the broody hen, she was protecting them like a hawk.
Good news also from the Brinsea incubators, 4 pipped last night and when I woke up this morning 9 hatched @day 21 and 5 more pipping except one seems like pipped on pointy end, there’s total of 30 eggs hoping for great hatch.

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There’s 3 Leghorn/Marans mix, 2 Olive Eggers and a Black Copper Marans, pretty excited for healthy chicks on day 4.

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Congrats to the broody momma! They're adorable!! Fingers crossed for a successful hatch in your incubator as well!