Arizona Chickens

[BlueBaby]

And I'm going to get to test out my theory (so far it's been this way) that the mostly black chicks are male and the yellow ones with black spots are female. It's Day 20 and two eggs are pipping.

Good luck!

 

[BlueBaby]

And I'm going to get to test out my theory (so far it's been this way) that the mostly black chicks are male and the yellow ones with black spots are female. It's Day 20 and two eggs are pipping.

Do we have more Arizona born chick's yet?

 

[springvalley123]

Well I think I got my first Birthday/Christmas present with the birds from Ideal! They hatched 3/8 and here it is 4/8. I think one's a crested cream legbar pullet. I just noticed the crest today, and a nice salmon color on her chest! She arrived as a brown chipmunk similar to a brown leghorn, but has white "bars" on her wing tips.

Also a funny brown, I had thought rhode island red, now maybe buckeye?? light wingtips, was yellow/red with a red spot on head on arrival. And this white one that arrived as white/yellow, and seems to lose its down even faster than it grows feathers. It's the fastest featherer of the bunch and among the most flighty.

 

[BlueBaby]

Well I think I got my first Birthday/Christmas present with the birds from Ideal! They hatched 3/8 and here it is 4/8. I think one's a crested cream legbar pullet. I just noticed the crest today, and a nice salmon color on her chest! She arrived as a brown chipmunk similar to a brown leghorn, but has white "bars" on her wing tips.

Also a funny brown, I had thought rhode island red, now maybe buckeye?? light wingtips, was yellow/red with a red spot on head on arrival. And this white one that arrived as white/yellow, and seems to lose its down even faster than it grows feathers. It's the fastest featherer of the bunch and among the most flighty.

Well, good luck with them, no matter what breed that they turn out to be!

 

[CaroleW]

I can relate! Last year I had this barred rock that somehow got in with the midnight majesty marans (barred rock hen X black copper marans rooster). I was so confused! I just didn't feel I should butcher this "cockerel" when I did the other.
Did you have any turn out to be hens, after they grew way faster than the others? Not that I'd know that one wasn't just a bigger breed/smaller breed though.

Just the Wyandotte (she would actually "fight" with the boys as a juvenile). I've had some that would crow and turned out hens (at least one or 2 of the Polish). Some of my NN mixes I don't know until the bigger redder comb and about 8 weeks start to crow.

 

[BlueBaby]

Here's something that's interesting about dyeing different colored chicken egg's for Easter.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...tore-bought-eggs.1519291/page-2#post-25577603

 

[cavemanrich]

I've had some that would crow and turned out hens

Just wanted to throw this in...
My RIR has spurs,,, she is 10 years old now,,,, but when she was younger,, would attempt and succeed to mount my other hens..
Almost like she was stuck between GOOD,,, and EVIL

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

Do we have more Arizona born chick's yet?

In progress!

Today is Day 20. This morning before I left for work, an egg was zipping. The chick inside was peeping really loudly and angrily, and pecking at that shell like a machine gun. I started calling it Angry Bird. After work I checked the incubator, and Angry Bird was fighting with chick #2. Angry Bird is black with a little yellow, marked just like Gabriel was. Chick #2 is cuckoo with the rich reddish brown undertone that Rolex has and that I was hoping to get. Maybe it'll be a girl? This is my first chick that's not some combination of black and yellow. One more egg is nearly unzipped, and another one is pipping.

Just checked before hitting the reply button--chick #3 is out and marked like Gabriel and Angry Bird. Angry Bird is the biggest of the bunch. It's a whopper. I hope I didn't get 3 boys!

 

[Coffee N Chickens]

A probably dumb question.

One of the girls in the coop with Rolex has been giving me eggs with extra large yolks. There's no telling the eggs apart when you look at them, but whan you crack them open there's more yolk and less of the clear/white part. Would this account for a large chick? I used the eggs from that coop for this hatch. The two little yellow spots at the top are from the camera.

 

[BlueBaby]

A probably dumb question.

One of the girls in the coop with Rolex has been giving me eggs with extra large yolks. There's no telling the eggs apart when you look at them, but whan you crack them open there's more yolk and less of the clear/white part. Would this account for a large chick? I used the eggs from that coop for this hatch. The two little yellow spots at the top are from the camera.

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I don't know, but I like those bigger yolked egg's when I'm eating them. I like the yolk's better then the whites.