Alaska hatchers..How is everyone doing? Baby pics !!!!!!

[Ban seabhag]

Tori I just checked in. How is #5 doing? (the ducks are so cute!)
Good hatching vibes to all.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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They're all from Romeo, the darker of the original 2 boys. The girls royally flogged Duncan, the more colorful boy, and I had to remove him from the pen before they killed him.

He is such a beautiful boy, when he has feathers.

Good info on the humidities...

Now if I can get my girls to start laying again.

 

[MissDeb]

Poor Duncan!

So now, since I have getting a few pure black, coppers, are you removing yours from the flock or do you think they
could produce BCM chicks? I was thinking this fall I might place the two black hens I have and replace them with
a couple of the correct chicks I have to see if I cant weed out that black gene.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Weak, but still with us!!

Deb, I just candled... 2 left in there, pulled 2 - they died without pipping. Still had yolk sacks, so it was probably a couple of days ago. Visible movement in one of the two remaining. So

 

[MissDeb]

Good grief, I was hoping you would have a better hatch! Well at least you have a few
more to add to your flock. I hope they all grow up beautiful!
Crossing all my fingers and toes for Aimee!

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Boy, I don't know, Deb... they could, I suppose. I would definitely replace any non-standard birds in the breeder pen... keep the others for eggs, which is what I am doing. I have one girl that is fugly. Downright, face-only-a-mother-could-love ugly. She lays 3-4s, so she's going to the layer flock. I have one girl that Toni gave me from Gabbard Farms that is very delicately coppered in the hackles, and she will go in the pen to replace her. She's laid a few very pretty glossy eggs so far. But I'm most hopeful for the older chicks I hatched and these that hatch from your eggs.

Here's the first three little boogers...

I'm guessing the beefy one on the right is a roo...

I love the red in the face already.

 

[Mrs MIA]

...and here's the first 4 from Christina's babies...

 

[Alaska animal lover]

Tori!

They're so cute!

Good vibes for the ones you have left!

 

[MissDeb]

Yea the one that had the weird legs that Jim had to cull a couple of weeks ago had that red face as well. I think that's
so pretty! Well at least we'll know what they look like when they grow out. I wasn't sure what to think of it..

Since we have Blues coming we'll no longer have a layer pen. So I guess I'll be consolidating anything that doesn't
look within standard. I wish I had another COOP!!!

I don't dare ask for one though...

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :

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Boy, I don't know, Deb... they could, I suppose. I would definitely replace any non-standard birds in the breeder pen... keep the others for eggs, which is what I am doing. I have one girl that is fugly. Downright, face-only-a-mother-could-love ugly. She lays 3-4s, so she's going to the layer flock. I have one girl that Toni gave me from Gabbard Farms that is very delicately coppered in the hackles, and she will go in the pen to replace her. She's laid a few very pretty glossy eggs so far. But I'm most hopeful for the older chicks I hatched and these that hatch from your eggs.

Here's the first three little boogers...

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Chickens/IMG_7339.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Chickens/IMG_7340.jpg

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Chickens/IMG_7341.jpg

I'm guessing the beefy one on the right is a roo...

I love the red in the face already.​

 

[Mrs MIA]