December hatch along

[Matieus27]

Here is the lone survivor of an Ayam Cemani batch I received through mail order... yeah I know how you feel.View attachment 1610979 Its actually larger than an Ayam Cemani and will go into my black meat bird experimental breeding program

I have one that’s supposed to hatch soon but it looks like some fluid of some kind is collecting in the aircell so I’m not sure if it’s going to make it

 

[BlueBaby]

My december hatch resulted in 15 chicks out of 22 eggs incubated. I was testing out a new incubator so they're just a mix of my layers, but a few of them came out really pretty!View attachment 1610648 View attachment 1610649 View attachment 1610650 View attachment 1610651 View attachment 1610653 View attachment 1610654

I see a little blue Nn with a bib on it there! What was it mixed with?

 

[BlueBaby]

Actually, I have 2 of the still-air styrofoam incubators. I have an automatic turner for one of them, but that incubator isn't the one that I have been using the last 2 times. I have been using my incubator that doesn't have the turner, and incubated my egg's pointy side down in egg carton's that I cut the lid's off of and poked a little hole in the bottom of the cups. I kept them in it until 7 days before hatch, then I layed them down in there on their sides. They are now in lock-down with the raised humidity at 60%.

 

[ATeacherChick]

I got 4 naked necks out of the hatch total, but the blue color was a surprise! It's out of either a buff Columbian or BBRXGold Spangled NN hen, crossed with what I am *thinking* is one of my EE roos, because my other roos are Welsummers, Penedesencas, and Asian Blacks. It *could* be the Asian Black technically, because there is so much mixture in their blood still...but I'm leaning towards my EE roos.

@Compost King good luck with your winter storm. We’re getting pounded by rain here. Flooding pretty bad. I lost a few adult birds (bantams) yesterday due to the weather.

@ATeacherChick do I see some NN?

I see a little blue Nn with a bib on it there! What was it mixed with?

 

[BlueBaby]

I got 4 naked necks out of the hatch total, but the blue color was a surprise! It's out of either a buff Columbian or BBRXGold Spangled NN hen, crossed with what I am *thinking* is one of my EE roos, because my other roos are Welsummers, Penedesencas, and Asian Blacks. It *could* be the Asian Black technically, because there is so much mixture in their blood still...but I'm leaning towards my EE roos.

One of the parent's had to have been the NN. What color are your EE roos'?

 

[ATeacherChick]

Yes, that's why it's definitely out of one of the two NN hens I mentioned None of the EE's are standardized colors.

One of the parent's had to have been the NN. What color are your EE roos'?

 

[BlueBaby]

Yes, that's why it's definitely out of one of the two NN hens I mentioned None of the EE's are standardized colors.

It's hard to tell what the EE's back breeding is. There could be under-laying color in those also.

 

[Matieus27]

Well I got called into work so I’ll probably get home to pipped eggs in the am because chicks were poking through air cells when I left

 

[BlueBaby]

@Compost King Try to keep you and your bird's as warm as possible. I hope that you have extra blanket's ready.

 

[Matieus27]

That’s on good thing about broodies you don’t have to worry about chicks being warm she has it covered