Baby chicks coming soon!

[Ilovemychicks08]

I also candled my eggs I have in the incubator this evening and so far 47/51 chicken eggs are fertile and 7/7 Guinea eggs are fertile! The chicken eggs are on day 5, and the Guinea eggs are a week ahead .

Cant wait for them to hatch and arrive!!!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

I set 36 local eggs from a grocery store, and still have 36 on day 16. + 2 eggs from a diff store, and farm. I also have 2 boxes from hatcheries coming around the same time as these will hatch.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

The babies all arrived alive and healthy yesterday!

 

[Iluveggers]

Do you know which are which? Sooooo stinkin adorable!

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Do you know which are which? Sooooo stinkin adorable!

Yes! I asked they mark them and they did!

 

[Lor]

The babies all arrived alive and healthy yesterday!

Yay! Adorable!

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

I know I’ve been through this a million different times, but what is y’all’s recommended age to start taking the chicks outside for little “field trips”? It hot where I live, so that shouldn’t be an issue.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

All but 3 eggs that went into lockdown hatched! This is a picture of all the hatchlings taken on Wednesday. They were in this small space for a very short amount of time and now have more room and there are also 12 or so less chicks in there because I sold some.

I think I’m going to keep 5, give some to family and friends, and the others are already spoken for to go to new homes. I need to figure out the best age to integrate the 5 in keeping in with my 2 1/2 week old chicks.

It’s been a cool adventure hatching so many chicks.

My chicks from McMurray are doing well and are almost 3 weeks old! I’ll post more pictures later.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Of my 36 incubator set eggs, 34 hatched and I gave them to a mom.

My hatchery order came in a week later...They are separate from the momma hen and chicks.
Cackle

Meyer

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Both are Ameraucana mixes. Moms are either black or splash. I’m assuming both have splash mom since they are both blue, but I don’t know. I don’t have a splash or blue rooster and the only black roosters I have are my BCM and Silkie. Any clue what these could be mixes of and why they look so different.