Adventures in Incubating Shipped Eggs

[Zinjifrah]

Since you like cute babies... it's time for more Chickspam!!

These are my shipped egg chickies, now between 4 and 7 days old (it was a drawn-out hatch).

They've distinctly divided themselves into two groups: the sassy brassy chicks, who push to the feeder and are very independent and assertive, and the mild & mellow chicks, who are docile and calm all the time. Interestingly, they aren't split by breed, I've got a feisty Appenzeller and a calm one, two excitable Sebrights, and a very serene one.
Pic 1 - The sassy brassy crew!
Pic 2 - Shadow, the first Svart Hona who got stuck. This one feels like a roo to me, already.
Pic 3 - Flurina, he feisty Appenzeller who was flailing around during candling and who was the first to peep, pip and hatch. This is a big chick!
Pic 4 - The tiniest chick, little Pearl the Silver Sebright. This chick is always looking at me, and is very easy to handle.
Pic 5 - Coal, the last chick to hatch, another Svart Hona who pipped wrong end and had a difficult hatch. I was up all night wondering if this little one would make it.
Pic 5 - Chantal, the smaller and much calmer of the two Appenzellers.
Pic 6 - Hanna, the only one of the Cream Legbar x Olandsk Dwarf chicks to hatch. The breeder says none of her chicks from the same parents look like this (all cream). Super sweet and calm chick. It will be interesting to see how s/he turns out!

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Beautiful chicks!

Here are my three Seramas... who I strongly suspect are all cockerels.

CB, aka Crybaby. For obvious reasons, according to this picture.

Tiny, aka Deuce. Thriving and growing!

And last but not least - since he's biggest, is very obviously a rooster with crowing at six days old and trying to scrap with my eight week old boys at two weeks old -
Blueroo.

 

[Cerise1924]

Beautiful chicks!

Here are my three Seramas... who I strongly suspect are all cockerels.

CB, aka Crybaby. For obvious reasons, according to this picture.
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Tiny, aka Deuce. Thriving and growing!
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And last but not least - since he's biggest, is very obviously a rooster with crowing at six days old and trying to scrap with my eight week old boys at two weeks old -
Blueroo.
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Oh, gosh, they are gorgeous! Crybaby, haha, how cute. And look at Blueroo standing tall. So glad Tiny is doing so well.

 

[Morrigan]

The chick spam is awesome.

@Rebel58 -- Newborn chicks are so precious. Glad the hatch has started.

@Cerise1924 -- What a beautiful set of chicks. I love that they are outside already. Loving the little Svart honas. I definitely need to try to hatch some next year.

@Zinjifrah -- What cuties. Deuce's comb looks smaller. Maybe a hen?

I need to take some updated pictures of mine. I can't believe how quickly they are feathering out. I'm not spending too much time wondering about what sex they are, as they all look pretty much the same to me in terms of comb size and feathering.

 

[Zinjifrah]

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@Zinjifrah -- What cuties. Deuce's comb looks smaller. Maybe a hen?

It does have some comb - which is more than my silkied girl has gotten yet, and she's eight weeks. I'd really like to have at least TWO pullets out of the lot... though of all of them, I'd actually prefer for Deuce to be a cockerel. From what I've read, the smallest Seramas can get egg-bound very easily.

 

[Jayellebee]

Day 27 of duck eggs... HOW DO YOU GUYS DO THIS?!

I am so impatient. My humidity and temp are pretty consistent. Humidity around 66-60, should I raise it?
I hate this waiting game.. it’s just causing me to look up the problematic egg hatching threads. No pipping or chirping yet.. I’m starting to get nervous!

You all have the cutest babies!!

 

[ldawntaylor]

@Jayellebee perhaps you want to edit. I hope there's no pimping going on.

 

[Jayellebee]

@Jayellebee perhaps you want to edit. I hope there's no pimping going on.

@idawntaylor omg thank you! Hahahahah that would not be good!

 

[Morrigan]

It does have some comb - which is more than my silkied girl has gotten yet, and she's eight weeks. I'd really like to have at least TWO pullets out of the lot... though of all of them, I'd actually prefer for Deuce to be a cockerel. From what I've read, the smallest Seramas can get egg-bound very easily.

I'm not sure how reliable combs are as an indicator in very young chicks, or it if varies from breed to breed. Serama's are single combed, right? I think single combs tend to show up earlier.

 

[Zinjifrah]

I'm not sure how reliable combs are as an indicator in very young chicks, or it if varies from breed to breed. Serama's are single combed, right? I think single combs tend to show up earlier.

Yep. We'll see! I'm still holding out hope for at least one more girl. The Serama boys and girls both are so precocious it's impossible not to like them... but six boys out of seven chicks is a bit much!

 

[ldawntaylor]

@idawntaylor omg thank you! Hahahahah that would not be good!

You're welcome. I had to edit one of my posts because auto correct called my rooster a reporter.