California - Northern

[CALI CHICK]

I may need one of these!!!

Feathersprings, I like your new avatar. It looks like such a sophisticated, classy silkie.

 

[zooweemama]

If there is a common theme.................don't sweat it.................chicks are WAY more resilient than we give them credit for.

Good luck with your hatch...............and quail do start popping like popcorn. They don't rock a lot and you probably won't hear them like you do at times with chicks. They just start popping out.

And edited to add...................I just use a small LED flashlight from Walmart with the highest lumens I can find. My current one is 200 lumens. I taped some foam pipe insulation around the end so it cradles the egg and contains the light. It's so bright I could probably cande your eggs for you from my house if you held them up,

I like using a flashlight because you don't even have to pick up the egg, just touch the top while in the incubator. I only open the lid high enough to slip in my arm. For really dark marans eggs, I pull them out and use two flashlights, top and bottom. I can see through ANYTHING.

Thanks Deb! I was starting to get really stressed. I have my bator fired up for a test run to play with temps for the next day or so. Then I am setting goose eggs and duck eggs. It has taken me about 10 days to get 6 goose eggs so I have to set them soon. I am SO nervous. Ducks take 28 days and Geese take 28-30. Should I set the geese eggs then 1 or 2 days later set the duck eggs in? Or set them at the same time? I'm so unsure what to do!

 

[zooweemama]

Looking like one of each sex based on the shape of the heads. Darker one looks like a rooster.

Keeping my fingers crossed that your Marans egg hatches

If not there are lots of people with chicks so your BLRW can have a friend

The 2 splash laced red rooster chicks that you are taking are SO friendly! This is what happens when you try to take their picture!

So cute!! We love the BLRW here! We have 1 pair of bantams and we managed to hatch 1 chick from them and it looks like a girl so far. At almost 6 weeks comb and wattles are barely pink if pink at all. Woot! We want more more more of them so pretty!

 

[chickee]

Look at these precious faces!! They're silver laced wyandottes

Awww

I love Wyandotte chicks. They are so pretty and have lots of personality!

 

[debs_flock]

Quote: Are the geese your Africans? I think they can take even a couple of days longer. I'd probably give them at least a 2 day head start and then bear in mind that you may need to keep them longer in lockdown. You can fudge the lockdown day a day in either direction without a problem. So if it's a day late for the ducks and a day early for the geese, it shouldn't be a problem. But I would give them the headstart.

Now if it were a light weight goose like a Chinese, I think they are closer to duck times.

 

[chickee]

So cute!! We love the BLRW here! We have 1 pair of bantams and we managed to hatch 1 chick from them and it looks like a girl so far. At almost 6 weeks comb and wattles are barely pink if pink at all. Woot! We want more more more of them so pretty!

The bantam BLRWs are addicting! Mine are also from Jen. Her line is super nice quality!

Here are the two I just hatched~

Hoping for pullets

As long as everyone is showing off their cute chicks . . Here are some bantam buff Brahmas in this hatch.

 

[PetRock]

I had to go and open my mouth about healthy birds. When I went out to feed this morning my Freck-dark brahma bantam-was just standing huddled against the coop wall.

Her comb, ear lobes and face are yellow, she doesn't have wattles. No signs of lice/mites, I now have her in the bathroom in a crate. She refused the egg I fixed for her. I have medicated feed for the chicks that I put in with her and she is eating that fine. No guesses on stool situation, she hasn't gone yet. She is the sweetest little thing, I tucked her inside my sweatshirt and she snuggled down and took a nap.

Oh, no! I'm so sorry that you have a sick one and I totally empathize with you!

How is she doing this evening?

 

[juststruttin]

Funny hatch. I hatched 9 Cream Legbars today and 8/9 were girls. I also hatched 11 OE (Crele Pene X Cream Legbar) and 9/11 were boys. Both groups are covered by the same roo. So much for the male determining the sex.....

 

[chickee]

Funny hatch. I hatched 9 Cream Legbars today and 8/9 were girls. I also hatched 11 OE (Crele Pene X Cream Legbar) and 9/11 were boys. Both groups are covered by the same roo. So much for the male determining the sex.....

I read that the hen determines the sex in chickens . . Sounds like you had a good hatch though. Congratulations!

 

[ronott1]

Funny hatch. I hatched 9 Cream Legbars today and 8/9 were girls. I also hatched 11 OE (Crele Pene X Cream Legbar) and 9/11 were boys. Both groups are covered by the same roo. So much for the male determining the sex.....

Yes, the hen determines the gender in chickens, not the roo. It is backwards from Humans. You must have a CP hen or two that throws girls. Which ever ones that were laying the eggs you sent me that hatched all girls are the ones.

Lots of people get this one wrong!