California - Northern

[ronott1]

I am posting some pictures of my new Baby's. Kim (Capayvalleychick) and I split an order from McMurray. Kim was getting 15 Dorkings and I was getting 7 Dorkings and 7 Partridge Rocks. There was supposed to be a rare and exotic bonus chick too. After the original order and a replacement order, Kim wound up with 7 Dorkings and I would up with 4 Dorkings and 6 Partridge Rocks. Also lost were 8 packing roosters and of course we lost the bonus chick too. Quite tragic

We did get a refund.

So these are Rare and exotic chick pictures. They are also survivors.

These Guys are having some Yogurt. The shipping stress gave these guys a bad case of pasty butt. The Australorps form Cackle had none and they were shipped from Missouri. My December hatch had none too.


I like the way this one looks. Is this a good stance for a Dorking?


Count the toes. Yes, they have five.


These two Partridge Rocks are the only survivors out of 7 from the original shipment. I have 4 one week old PR's in a different brooder. Those four really had bad poopy butt. I spent all of last monday hand spooning chick saver water to them.
These guys like the yogurt, but aren't as messy as the Dorkings.


At two weeks, can you tell if one is a rooster? The one on the left has more feathers, including some up at the shoulder.


Have a great Sunday

Edited because I thought today was Saturday--oops Ron

 

[capayvalleychick]

Cute pics, Ron. The PRs have such nice coloring. Chicks are so hard to photograph and I have an even harder time taking good pics with my phone but here is one. These are from my half of Ron's order. The chicks who survived are doing well, very lively, and now know how to eat and love hard boiled egg.



Kim

 

[sewandgrow]

In the past when I had a shipment that had pasty butt I did some research on these threads & was told to use yogurt which I still do but to give them sand too. It worked for me.

 

[ronott1]

Cute pics, Ron. The PRs have such nice coloring. Chicks are so hard to photograph and I have an even harder time taking good pics with my phone but here is one. These are from my half of Ron's order. The chicks who survived are doing well, very lively, and now know how to eat and love hard boiled egg.



Kim

Hi Kim,

They do look great! Mine really loved the hard boiled egg and you can see from the pictures how much they love the yogurt

. I had them pecking it off of my finger, which was cute.

One of mine is noticeably bigger and the feathers look a bit different. Maybe I have one rooster? How many roosters did you get.

In the past when I had a shipment that had pasty butt I did some research on these threads & was told to use yogurt which I still do but to give them sand too. It worked for me.

Thanks for the tip! I do have some chick grit--they had some at TSC.

Edited to remove information about TSC. Send a PM if interested-Ron

 

[capayvalleychick]

For color sexing Dorkings, go to this page and scroll down:

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Dorks/BRKDorks.html

Everyone says that they are able to color sex SG Dorking chicks. In my experience, it's not as easy as those photos make it look. If it is, we have all pullets, because none of them have the light head markings. They all seem to have the dark triangle. Some have slightly less dark markings and those are the ones that I'm thinking may be males. I just can't tell at this point. When they get their chest feathers, you can sex by color, as you see in the photos on that page of the 4 wk. olds.

So I don't know yet.
Kim

 

[ronott1]

For color sexing Dorkings, go to this page and scroll down:

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Dorks/BRKDorks.html

Everyone says that they are able to color sex SG Dorking chicks. In my experience, it's not as easy as those photos make it look. If it is, we have all pullets, because none of them have the light head markings. They all seem to have the dark triangle. Some have slightly less dark markings and those are the ones that I'm thinking may be males. I just can't tell at this point. When they get their chest feathers, you can sex by color, as you see in the photos on that page of the 4 wk. olds.

So I don't know yet.
Kim

Hi Kim,

Thanks for the link

.
I checked the pictures on Mcmurray's site, and I think you are right! They look like the pictures of pullet chicks. I guess the males died from the cold in shipping.

If all goes well with the hatch, be should get 50 to 55 percent males from the 11 that are developing. None of the ones that started have quit yet. We should get 4 or 5 from that hatch.

It's too early to tell if the shipped eggs will hatch yet. I will let you know. It's day three today and when I candled them it looked like some of them were changing. I will know more in a couple of days or son

Time to cook dinner!

 

[capayvalleychick]

It's too early to tell if the shipped eggs will hatch yet. I will let you know. It's day three today and when I candled them it looked like some of them were changing. I will know more in a couple of days or son

Which shipped eggs? The Basque? Or did you get the ones from WA already? Aren't you doing the Easter hatch?
Enjoy your dinner!

Kim

 

[SunnyDawn]

Oh here is where I needed to go to get my fix of cute pics!!! Adorable babies!

 

[ronott1]

Which shipped eggs? The Basque? Or did you get the ones from WA already? Aren't you doing the Easter hatch?
Enjoy your dinner!

Kim

Yes I am doing staggered hatching. I am using one Genesis as an incubator and the other as a hatcher. Yours hatch next weekend. The ones from Washington will hatch on the 21st and the Easter hatch will be set on March 17th and will hatch the day before Easter.

Also, PGandE is turning of the electricity on Wed. I have and adapter to hook the brooders up to a car battery. The battery should run the incubator for 36 hours or so. The power is supposed to be off from 9 to 3 that day. I have the battery on a charger now and will switch the charger over to minder mode when it finishes. On Wed. before I go to work, I will hook the incubator up to the battery. It's a good thing I bought the Genesis

.

I can also use an adapter to run the Genesis in my car, so I can deliver chicks in the incubator.

Oh, so does anyone want some EE chicks. They are 10 weeks old and I think I have two roosters. The White Rooster is beautiful! The other Rooster(I think no crowing yet. The white one crows) is Lavender with rust marks on the shoulder and wings. I am keeping one EE Pullet, the one with light brown colors and my Marans. Pictures are in my Avatar.

Later I will be clearing out some of the Partridge Rocks and Dorkings. If all goes well with the Easter hatch, I will have some EO Marundo Basque chicks to clear out too. There is a BYCer on the coast that wants some of those though.

Dinner was good--I made Chicken Jambalaya

 

[capayvalleychick]

Ron, you are definitely a hatch-a-holic!

And I'm glad.

I think the power outage is due to my Dorking curse. Every time I try to increase my flock, something bad happens.

Yellow House was just talking about the power going out during incubation. He liked your battery idea and said:
"By all means, if he can do that, go for it! However, yes, if the power goes out, the eggs can stand cool to an extent. It has happened to us on a couple of occasions. One evening I even took eggs out to go into the hatcher and got distracted. Not the following morning, but the one after, I saw them on the work bench and panicked. I ran outside and threw them under a broody game hen, and half of them hatched!

If you have to face a day without power:

1. Don't open the doors!!!!
2. Depending on the type of incubator, wrap it in good blankets---be aware of all fire danger with the blankets should the power come back on!!!!! and do not plug the ventilation!
3. Lot's of prayers to Saint Anthony
   
   "

My husband is a General Building Contractor and is very possessive of his tools. I can't even use them without permission first. I asked to borrow one of his little generators for you. He wouldn't answer me, just had a blank stare on his face. So I guess that's a no.

Kim