Feather's Full Bator, Two Month, Cochin Bantam, Hatchalong! If youre not in excited by this, I dont know what excites you!

[T-R-O-U-B-L-E]

Egg 1: @Lovely Lettie Hatched and named Pebbles.
Egg 2: @Noah P ; pipped
Egg 3: @MeanCheek Nothing
Egg 4: @The-White-Elephant Nothing
Egg 5: @Fluffy Lambs Hatched and named Dani/Danny
Egg 6: @MysteryChicken Hatched but read story below
Egg 7: @lavendermarie Hatched named Echo but you can still name it for BYC
Egg 8: @HappyClucker7 Nothing
Egg 9: @Martaals Pipped
Egg 10: @pekin queen dead
Egg 11: @UThobbyfarmer pipped
Egg 12: @Iluveggers dead

 

[T-R-O-U-B-L-E]

So... I decided to be stupid and help egg 6. My brother and sister agreed that we should crack it around the end so all it has to do is push itself out. So we did but we broke a blood vessel. It clotted quickly and he only lost a few drops. So he pushes himself out and of course there is a little blood in the egg and his naval is bleeding. But like before it clotted quickly. I think he'll be ok. No promises, but I think.

 

[pekin queen]

Egg 1: @Lovely Lettie Hatched and named Pebbles.
Egg 2: @Noah P ; pipped
Egg 3: @MeanCheek Nothing
Egg 4: @The-White-Elephant Nothing
Egg 5: @Fluffy Lambs Hatched and named Dani/Danny
Egg 6: @MysteryChicken Hatched but read story below
Egg 7: @lavendermarie Hatched named Echo but you can still name it for BYC
Egg 8: @HappyClucker7 Nothing
Egg 9: @Martaals Pipped
Egg 10: @pekin queen dead
Egg 11: @UThobbyfarmer pipped
Egg 12: @Iluveggers dead

noo egg 10 died oh well

 

[T-R-O-U-B-L-E]

noo egg 10 died oh well

I'm not 100% certain but it looked pretty dead on day 18.

 

[pekin queen]

I'm not 100% certain but it looked pretty dead on day 18.

okay thats fine, still sad tho....

 

[Chicken poppy]

Here is a better pictyre of him. Any idea why he is so light? Are all blues this light?
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No. Blues are not that light. Heres my blue as a chick.

This is not to say all are born like this in coloring, they are however darker then that, and that looks splash.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

No, yours is a very dark Blue, but that doesn't make FeatherFeetFarm's chick Splash by comparison. Splash chicks look almost white with just a tiny hint of grayishness to them, easily confused for recessive white. Blue comes on a spectrum from really light like that chick to so dark that it's almost Black.

As an example, here is a light Blue chick I hatched last year that was similar to the chick in question, and him once he'd feathered out.

 

[Chicken poppy]

No, yours is a very dark Blue, but that doesn't make FeatherFeetFarm's chick Splash by comparison. Splash chicks look almost white with just a tiny hint of grayishness to them, easily confused for recessive white. Blue comes on a spectrum from really light like that chick to so dark that it's almost Black.

As an example, here is a light Blue chick I hatched last year that was similar to the chick in question, and him once he'd feathered out.

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Yes, but theirs is much lighter then that.

I think its possible its splash. It could get darker when it gets older, and probably will.

I would like to note: Its “very dark” because she wasn’t newborn in that photo, so she will be darker because shes older. (As i had said)

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

I’ve hatched out some lighter blues from BBS Marans. One I can recall became a beautiful medium blue color. She was almost laced too. With darker blue on the very edges of her feathers. Beautiful bird!

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Here’s my post, in 2019, on a lighter blue chick.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/blue-copper-marans-chicks.1318884/#post-21498935

The chick on the right is the one in question.