Excited! My first time hatching eggs

[Sally Sunshine]

AWESOME!! CONGRATS !! YAY!! Addicted yup, surprised the bator is not already heated up!!! LOL !!!

 

[chlskt]

Very cute! Good job

 

[zestokasis]

My son has made a discovery. As I said one of the eggs that we hatched was an egg from our own chickens and the hen that laid that egg is an Ameraucana hen, but we didn't know who the rooster was that fertilized the egg because she is in a coop with 3 different roosters. Ameraucana, Giant Barred Cochin, and Black Cochin are the roosters. All the chicks look the same and so I can't tell which one is ours........ or so I thought. I just assumed that since they looked the same maybe the egg was fertilized by the Ameraucana Rooster.......... Well we can now rule him out because my son noticed that one particular chick has feathers on it's legs (lol), making him one part Ameraucana and one part Cochin. Now the million dollar question is which Cochin? Is it the Giant barred Cochin or the Black Cochin? I'll post a pic here shortly and let you all decide.

 

[zestokasis]

So who's your daddy? Is it the Black Cochin or is it the Giant Barred Cochin? Feel free to give your opinions but if you do please explain why you think so.

 

[redheadnc]

great pic! I will have a hatch soon too! Never tried shipped eggs but it sounds like yours went great!

 

[zestokasis]

I think the key is to make sure that you read some of the feedback on the person whom you are buying the shipped eggs from. That's what first and felt pretty confident in what I was getting.