Here is a picture of an australorp chick. They look like they have eye liner on. Some do not have quite this much white on them, but they do have white tips on their wings.
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Here is the 1 from a brown egg of yours which I think is either half or pure Astrolorp (the other 3 from your eggs don't look a thing like it btw) When those eggs were gathered there was a welsummer, buff orp, EE, OE and the australorp roo in that pen. Since then the australorp cut his foot badly and has been in the hospital pen for 3 weeks. The welsummer roo attacked me once to often and now resides in the roo pen with the buff orp, whose name is Mr. Horney. Things are much calmer in that pen now. I would think if it happened to be pure australorp it would have white wing tips. At least the hen was probably australorp. It doesnt look like it has the white wing tips that I associate with australorps.What do you think ;?
aw, yeah, you are a teeny bit far. Lol! What mixes are you playing around with? Would you consider shipping eggs? I got some eggs from California that are, so far (knock on wood), doing okay for this HAL.Wish we were closer...i'm playing around with Silkies mixes
I have 6 early chicks hatched & in the bator now (still aren't even due for another 2.5 hrs) but the slightly early chicks are always more robust for me, so I'm good w/ these, although setting up the brooder just now was kinda a shocker, esp. as we have now switched over to snow/sleet outside (to top off 4 inches of rain last night, off/on rain all day, 2 weeks of rain, standing water on the side of a mountain, & urgent need to get groundwork done to built barn as rescue horses are waiting on that for their actual rescue, ugh).
So here is another pic. of today's hatchers.
the front lower left is from one of my blue eggs (CLL or maybe EE under SFH or poss. EE)
the front right if from a 3rd mixed flock & was 1st actually out last night,
the others are all from the Auastralorp's gang (maybe if I'd ever learn to spell it I could have some!)
but those 3 others are all mostly blue/grey & more or less Ame / EE looking to me.
Cooked a turkey today..with stuffing. Will do all of the other goodies tomorrow.LOL we try not to go overboard with all the cooking for Christmas. we usually have turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing and a lemon meringue pie and a chocolate pie. (Basically because I am the designated holiday chef and what I say we have, we have...well, in my mind at least.) LOL
Holy Wow! I just realized that it's week 2 for me! Candling tonight!!!! I think I will do it at 12:00 am on Christmas morn' so I can find out if I've been naughty or nice this year.
