Cree Farm Ameraucanas, Ninjas Marans/Crosses, & Serama Hatching!

[ninjapoodles]

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The ones that I've had that are really solid black have turned out to be girls, mostly.

I don't know what to think about those orange legs. Wonder if they'll stay that way? I'd think something else got into the henhouse, if I had any breeds with yellow legs, but I don't! Just Orpingtons, Easter Eggers, and Ameraucanas.

 

[monarc23]

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The ones that I've had that are really solid black have turned out to be girls, mostly.

I don't know what to think about those orange legs. Wonder if they'll stay that way? I'd think something else got into the henhouse, if I had any breeds with yellow legs, but I don't! Just Orpingtons, Easter Eggers, and Ameraucanas.

Awesome!!! Hopefully lil blackie is a girl!

As for yellow legger, I dunno i really think its a purebred, i mean it looks like it, however from looking at feather site, it looks like theres other colors that can pop up, maybe this one gathered a genetic difference from a back breeding? Never knooow!

 

[ninjapoodles]

In any case, I'll be very interested to see if that color holds as this one grows.

THIS is what's great about having as many people as possible hatching your eggs--It might've taken me 20 hatches to come across something odd like that, and here you've found it your first time out!

 

[monarc23]

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LOL yeppers! I was reading that it may be from a wheatens marans color (i was just searching it online) some of the higher end breeders even see this from what Im reading and they cull them out of their flock. I dunno if I will or not, I'm going to see how it matures first

. Oddly enough they say that in all cases it's the females they've noticed having this....herrm! LOL!

 

[ninjapoodles]

Well, no matter what, let's keep track of that rascal! I've also heard some people practically equate excessive "straw" coloration in the hackles of the rooster to Wheatens. And I DID have several of those roos. I culled them from the Marans flock, but since the birds all came from the same place, you know the genetics are there.

Again, so glad to have hatching partners!

 

[newchickenfamily]

Whew! 2 straight days of hatching! Who knew it could be so time consuming!

Final NinjaPoodle chick count: 7 little fluffers! I just "hatched" the last two a couple of hours ago. They were totally "glued" into their shells and definitely weren't coming out on their own. Poor little peeps. I just got them washed off since they were coated in a hard membrane and couldn't fluff or really move at all.

Some are still in the bator and the rest are in the brooder. Cuteness overload! I got one Maran chick (not sure if it's crossed or not?) and the rest hatched out of Orp eggs.

I have a bunch of SQ bantams too!

Pics tomorrow! Thanks for letting me share the thread Monarc!!

 

[ninjapoodles]

If the dark egg had the letter 'M' on it, then it was for sure a purebred. If not, then I'm not sure, because I didn't start marking them with an M until a few days' collecting had gone by.

 

[monarc23]

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No problem im happy to!!! If you have pictures to share deffinatly do!

I sadly last night I lost one of my marans, it kept crying and crying and late at night it woke me up with its screaming and by the time i got to the brooder it was limp

I thikn it was the one that didnt absorb the yolk right awy tho shame it died now.

I sitll have the nifty legged one, and the black looking one so im really excited for them! Now i hope the yellow legged oneis a roo! LOL!

it's not being culled unless i get more LOL! And even then i may not cull it cuz i adore it annnd if i cull it it wont be truely culled just found a good home

 

[ninjapoodles]

Awww, I'm sorry. I had that happen last hatch, with a little Orp. On the second day, it just started crying and crying, and I culled it when it was obvious it wasn't going to make it.

 

[monarc23]

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I wish it was easy to know what happens all the time in those situations but i always chalk it out to meant to be sorta thing

Hubby and I are IN LOVE with these marans, the crosses too but the pures the best....little docile angels! No wonder so many people love them!!! I deffinatly reccomend them to anyone wanting brown egg layers that are sweet lil fluffs. They are so easy going not skiddish like my amers can be.!