Well bummer on the colored pullets, I would have loved them.
Okay, we'll see. I work third shift schedule sun-wed. so obviously I'm not working now but on my same schedule, so I'll be up all night.
Yeah, I just wanted to see them and see if I could guess the ratio... I'd hate to trade 4 pullets for 6 cockerels... even if I'm still coming out with $20... I know 1 person wanting a rooster, so that would at least drop the # of roosters... but roosters don't do me any good.
OK........this weird thing that happened once has happened again. I have 3 eggs of 22 in the incubator and the air sacs are round but have an oblong air sac attached running down the side of the egg.When this happened before the chicks where not able to zip and ended up dead except the last one which I got tired of seeing them die and opened it up..pulled the thick membrane back a bit and a little of the thin one..covered with a wet cloth and put back in...did a bit more again an hour later x2 and finally had enough off that I lay it back in with a wet cloth and it finished hatching. Wish I had gone ahead and started doing it with the others now since I was loosing them anyway. I paid a lot for these 6 eggs and 3 are like this. My humidity has fluctuated a lot the past 6 weeks....don't if it is the weather change or the fan is not running as well as it should. I have seen it slow down a few times when I was checking temp and hum. You would think as much as I hatch I would know what caused this but has never been an issue in the past except that one time. Just thought it was a fluke.
Leaving to go camping for the last time this season...hope it warms up....I hate cold weather!!!
As someone who was the recipient of such a "kind" gesture before... please don't. We folks out in the stick have birds too
Okay, here are some oics. Probably not the best to determine sex of all 8 individually. My toes & fingers are still thawing out and it was impossible with me by myself trying to take individuals of each. Hope this helps some.
With the last 2 photos you get the best idea as far as sexes go, the 4 to the right are cockerels, the 2 to the left are pullets. The other 2 are hiding so don't know if the last 2 are pullets or cockerels, and since you plan to keep 2 of the ones that will be pullets, I have no idea if the 2 I don't see are what I'm left with as far as cockerels go. If the other 2 are pulletish I wouldn't have a problem.... I can't tell if out of the 8 you have 2 pullets and 6 cockerels, or 3 pullets or 4...Okay, here are some oics. Probably not the best to determine sex of all 8 individually. My toes & fingers are still thawing out and it was impossible with me by myself trying to take individuals of each. Hope this helps some.
Also, included a somee pics of the two bantam cockerals I need to also let go.
Well at this point I would let all 8 go and wait until nxt yr. to get a couple older hens, that I know for sure are hens & are already laying. I would rather have more bantam cochin pullets right now being those are the ones I really want to breed & not just for eating eggs. and..........We haven't got to the point yet that we can "send any to freezer camp", all are too much like pets to us at this point. So, keeping any that may potentially be roosters are of no use to me (can't eat & won't breed)
