Are these Fertile?

[Farmer Viola]

can you link me to the photos?

 

[sillycmoy]

Here is the page with photo's of the ones that I know haven't started laying yet.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/845306/who-is-my-rooster-picture-heavy

 

[Farmer Viola]

The naked neck is the one I suspected first... Those are some BIG wattles for a 6 month old hen, but I don't see any saddle feathers so perhaps not.

I also notice the Show Girl/Naked Neck Mix seems red in the face, but her body looks like a hen.

A silkie is a possibility but they all look like pullets to me.

So I'm stumped! I will keep staring that the pictures some more. I would bundle up with some hot coffee and spend a couple hours out there with them and wait for someone to get busy, if it were me. I'd have to know!


MAAAABYE.. see these: 2 Japanese Bantam, Hatched May 1, 2013 ?
See how one is larger and has red feathers in the neck? Can you take more pictures of that one, side shots? the face looks like a girl but just curious.

 

[sillycmoy]

The larger one in the last picture is with my FBCM. The Japanese Bantam is a very flighty bird. The only one out there that isn't like a puppy dog. The rest all follow you around, let you pick them up etc.. I don't know, its driving me mad. I think I'm buying an incubator, but not sure which one would be best. And so right now I have the first 2 eggs from today, pointy side down and the large side up in an egg crate on the counter. I don't know anything about hatching eggs.

 

[Farmer Viola]

The 2 links in my signature are really good resources for hatching

If your silkies have just started laying, you might wait and see if one goes broody instead of buying an incubator?

 

[sillycmoy]

Both my silkies haven't laid one single egg. Everyone kept saying, once it hits like December they will probably go broody. Nope. So I guess I'm getting an incubator.

 

[Farmer Viola]

hmm.. do you give them supplemental light? I believe when they go below 12hrs light/day they will stop laying, so you can encourage them to start in winter by turning a light on in their coop/run a few hours before dawn.

 

[sillycmoy]

No, I know its due to winter, but I don't mind getting the 2-3 eggs a day. Doesn't bug me. I heard if you just hang the LED Christmas Rope lights out there, that's enough light, but I'm not too worried about it. We usually only eat eggs every 3-4 days anyways. So its been nice not getting 5-7 a day. And now more girls are starting to lay randomly so once spring hits, we will have a million eggs.