d'anver lovers,discuss the breed and post some pics!

[warmheart]

Cali Chick, she does look like a pullet. And she's gorgeous! She looks so very calm in your hand-- wow!

Love, love, love seeing and hearing people show off this breed's great temperament. I like their grassy play-pen set-up with the nice roosting branch, too cute!


My eggs are due to hatch in a week!

The teacher will be candling them today, I believe. Yesterday my fiance briefly held one of the eggs up to the light, and saw a dark area, which he says likely means a chick is growing in there. I so wish that I could be there to see them hatch. The reptile heat emitter brooder "light" arrived last night. Trying not to get too freaked out reading the horror stories in the Raising Baby Chicks section.

I'll be thinking positive thoughts for those babies to have an easy hatch

and for them to thrive and do really well.

 

[chickee]

My chicks are hatching!

I woke up this morning and looked in the incubator to see the first chick slipping out of its egg. It is one of the Dun Cuckoos. It is very healthy and NOISY! You can just tell it would love to picked up and cuddled already

It is trying its best to figure how to get out of there to me.

Looking forward to the end of the hatch when they are all fluffed up and cute for pictures! In the mean time, here is a picture of the Dun Cuckoo, newly hatched chick~

 

[CALI CHICK]

Cali Chick, she does look like a pullet. And she's gorgeous! She looks so very calm in your hand-- wow!

Love, love, love seeing and hearing people show off this breed's great temperament. I like their grassy play-pen set-up with the nice roosting branch, too cute!


My eggs are due to hatch in a week!

The teacher will be candling them today, I believe. Yesterday my fiance briefly held one of the eggs up to the light, and saw a dark area, which he says likely means a chick is growing in there. I so wish that I could be there to see them hatch. The reptile heat emitter brooder "light" arrived last night. Trying not to get too freaked out reading the horror stories in the Raising Baby Chicks section.

I'll be thinking positive thoughts for those babies to have an easy hatch

and for them to thrive and do really well.

Thank you, warmheart. I have 3 that look like her with that smooth, yellow comb....which I'm hoping are all 3 "pullets".

Then, there's 3 others that have a bumpy, widening pinkish comb and more colorful feathering....which I'm guessing are the cockerels.

I will attempt to get a picture of one of each to show the obvious difference (but they move so quickly unless I'm holding them and trying to hypnotize them to sleep).

Good luck with your hatch! I've got silkie eggs hatching on Tuesday.

My chicks are hatching!

I woke up this morning and looked in the incubator to see the first chick slipping out of its egg. It is one of the Dun Cuckoos. It is very healthy and NOISY! You can just tell it would love to picked up and cuddled already

It is trying its best to figure how to get out of there to me.

Looking forward to the end of the hatch when they are all fluffed up and cute for pictures! In the mean time, here is a picture of the Dun Cuckoo, newly hatched chick~

Aww, so cute!

Just a ball of fluff!
I peeked under my broody silkie and saw a zip in one of the eggs and heard peeping. It is SO hard not to keep going out and looking at her, but I'm hoping she'll accept the babies as her own. There are actually just 2 eggs from one of her flockmates and she's only been sitting broody for about 9 days (a different chicken was sitting on the eggs before her.)

 

[warmheart]

EEEEE!! A Dun cuckoo baby!

I bet it's trying to mind-meld with you. How adorable! You've got some really neat colors. I'm so excited for you, I'm kinda living vicariously though you. I hope you have a super hatch with many healthy, peeping, friendly babies! Enjoy watching them hatch!

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

The youngins

1 to 3 weeks



4 to 6 weeks


6 to 8 weeks

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

For Cynthia, the porcelains are looking really good this year

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

The Creles, thanks Aubrey!

 

[Backwoods Bntms]

The guys




My new color this year, Cuckoo



I got more but I will quit for now.

 

[speckledhen]

For Cynthia, the porcelains are looking really good this year

Such beauties! My Maura out of Aubrey and Mina is just lovely. The play of subtle colors on this variety is so beautiful.

 

[NanaKat]

Had a hatch on Mille Fleur over Quail and Ginger Red over Buff Columbian. Eight total chicks all with nice fluffy beards and some color surprises...darker and no Quail markings...will have to post pictures.