BYC's 2025 Spooktacular Halloween Hatch-Along

[ella2025]

Yes well I did. He was one of the two roosters. No female barred rock. I know the white spots on heads can mean males but idk how it works with all the mixed breeds.

What breeds are your hens?

 

[kattabelly]

Would it be a terrible idea to take the chicks out 1-2 at a time in 51f weather to take some fall pics?

Fine for short periods if it's not windy and rainy. Keep an eye on them and bring them back inside to warm up when they start standing fluffed up or huddling into each other and making "too cold" peeps.

Yes well I did. He was one of the two roosters. No female barred rock. I know the white spots on heads can mean males but idk how it works with all the mixed breeds.

All his offspring should be barred.

If you'd used a non-barred rooster over a barred hen, only the males would be barred and have the head spot when they hatch.

 

[ella2025]

I went outside and felt that it was actually really warm under the sun. So i took like 100 photos.

 

[ella2025]

I counted 94 photos

 

[african chickens]

Would it be a terrible idea to take the chicks out 1-2 at a time in 51f weather to take some fall pics?

I don't think it would be bad. But if your worried you can take a background like I did and tape some leaves to it, did that with chicks and my adult birds.

a piece of paper

Or wall

 

[african chickens]

I counted 94 photos

Those are adorable

 

[redinator]

I went outside and felt that it was actually really warm under the sun. So i took like 100 photos.
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You should post these in the fall photo contest

 

[redinator]

I don't think it would be bad. But if your worried you can take a background like I did and tape some leaves to it, did that with chicks and my adult birds.
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Or wall

You should post these in the fall photo contest

 

[redinator]

Fine for short periods if it's not windy and rainy. Keep an eye on them and bring them back inside to warm up when they start standing fluffed up or huddling into each other and making "too cold" peeps.


All his offspring should be barred.

If you'd used a non-barred rooster over a barred hen, only the males would be barred and have the head spot when they hatch.

That's actually good news, that would've been a male heavy hatch otherwise.

 

[gimmie birdies]

My hatch is complete. Of my 12 eggs from a friend, I was hatching in an incubator that is newer to me, not a still air which I an used to, but I took out the turner and hand turned, and I was incubating in an enclosed shed, that was probably not 70 degrees. The temp stayed up, but it was probably not the best. 6 made it to look down. 5 hatched.stuffed.