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[CaCO3]

This morning that one little chickie hatched at 6am. It's all alone in the incubator but I put in a wad of wool roving as a decoy for some companionship. Pretty sure it's an Orp x Faverolles.

 

[pmessner]

Do you have others in the incubator ready to hatch or is this the only hatchling? Not quite sure from your post if you have more coming. I have some started... about 10 more days to hatch. I am crossing my golden cuckoo marans rooster with a marans/lemon cuckoo orp cross and some partridge rocks and barneveldors. Not sure what to expect... still trying to understand the feather patterns so I am sort of playing with test crosses to see what happens. Eventually I hope to end up with a nice hefty orpy marans cross with good hybrid vigor. The lemon cuckoo orpingtons I started with I suspect were heavily inbred.

 

[redrstr29]

 

[CaCO3]

Do you have others in the incubator ready to hatch or is this the only hatchling? Not quite sure from your post if you have more coming. I have some started... about 10 more days to hatch. I am crossing my golden cuckoo marans rooster with a marans/lemon cuckoo orp cross and some partridge rocks and barneveldors. Not sure what to expect... still trying to understand the feather patterns so I am sort of playing with test crosses to see what happens. Eventually I hope to end up with a nice hefty orpy marans cross with good hybrid vigor. The lemon cuckoo orpingtons I started with I suspect were heavily inbred.

I have 5 more Orp x ?mystery hen crosses underneath broodies (a silkie and a bantam frizzle Cochin). These were started out of curiosity about fertility because the cockerels were barely 5 mos. but one egg definitely showed embryo growth (this a.m.'s hatch) so I put in a handful more a few days later. When I candled about a week later there were some definite not fertiles and a few "I'm not sure eggs" that I took out and kind of let them cool overnight before I was going to crack them to confirm. Then I decided to put them back in the incubator to keep temp stable. A few were fertile and kept developing but were now behind the rest from cool off period. I did not have another incubator available but 3 hens went broody. The first broody snapped out if it when I moved her from the coop. That was cool off + delay for one group of eggs. The second two broodies both stayed in the zone (this time I tested first with golf balls and fake egg). So now I have the second and third waves under the hens and was able to hatch out the first lone egg in the incubator. This is probably waaaay longer an answer than you wanted..... I'm not sure which breed of hens layed the fertile eggs because I have a handful that lay light brown eggs that look similar. Likely suspects are the faverolles and/or light brahma. I know that the rooster(s) were one the 3 BBS Orps in the coop. Just going to wait and see what I get.

 

[CaCO3]

Wow that was a looooong post.

 

[ChampionAlex]

Anyone have any wood ducks or mandarin ?

 

[pmessner]

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I was wondering if it was worth picking up a couple of chicks to keep the singlet company???...

 

[CaCO3]

Hoping for some friends to hatch tomorrow

 

[CaCO3]

Hoping for some friends to hatch tomorrow

 

[CaCO3]

Sorry drives me nuts when I double post stuff.


Me and my little friend are hanging out and looks promising for a few more to hatch out tomorrow or Friday by the latest. Luckily I have both tomorrow and Friday off so I can play surrogate. The cat is fascinated cannot open the brinsea so is permitted supervised investigation. This chick is getting even more dysfunctionally imprinted (the bird, not me)