This is so COOL! THEY ARE CAMO-ed!!! Congrats onthe fuzzys !!
Baby White Marans! They're camo'ed against the bedding! There are actually 5 in the brooder, and others are pipped (at least 6 if memory serves me right). Got BCM's too, but they're slower to zip.
Yea iam likethat the next 3 weeks really gotta be on top of whats next.
Are the chicks really that white the light sussex? LOVE IT!!!
Here is our little "flock"! Momma Nell (Australorp x) 4 light sussex chickies and Aunty Penelope (hi line) We will be keeping one of the female chicks - hoping one is female!
I decided to remove the final un-hatched egg today - no sound, no pips, nothing.
Next time Nell gets broody we hope to find some Araucana/Easter Egger eggs locally here in Adelaide - otherwise we will have some shipped in from interstate.
What a wonderful experience this has been. Thank you everyone for sharing your hatches.
Congratulations to all the new peeps out there and my thoughts are with those who have lost little ones in and out of their eggs x
DITTO!!! So happy for you Pug!!
LOL!! its easier to ask forgiveness than it is permission!!Well... I'm back for my updates and chickie-doodle fix. Love all the pictures.
My teenage son had his last bowling meet this morning. They took 2013 season champions!Going to regional next weekend! Ok, proud momma...
On to the "momma hen" part of me. I am going to be IN TROUBLE! DH, the kids, & I just stopped at our local farm store & found out they're getting their chicks in on Wednesday!!! EEK! DH says we should limit it to only 4 new ones... but I already have 6 picked out in my head and I haven't even seen them yet! I have a Lt. Brahma rooster but no lt.brahma hens! So I have 2 light brahma pullets on my mental list, 1 isa brown, 1 leghorn, 1 americauna, and 1 amber link. The amber link are new for them this year, so I figured I would try them. We'll be retiring our isa brown and leghorn this fall, and they're really good egg layers, so I wanted to replace them. How can I limit this down to only 4 chicks? I don't think it's possible! Anybody see a way? No, I couldn't find one either. LOL.
Good thing DH doesn't know my spring hatching plan yet or he'd never cave on the 6 chicks. I'd love to get some eggs from a few select BYC members. I'd like BCM eggs, and really good white silkie eggs (to increase the beauty and bloodline of the silkies we already have).
DH did agree to hatch out some duck eggs already though... Yahoo. Not sure where we're going to put ducks yet. ...or the turkeys, or the meat chickens... or the... ...you get the idea.
I am so excited for you!!!! You all better not take your awesome new chicks and run before I get a pip or two!!!Well guys I had 4 more hatch and a QUAIL my first ever and there are 3 more pipping now (quail) and 6 chickens pipping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This by far is the best hatch I have ever had!
First 3
The newest 4
And here is the quail chick!
LOL!!! sometimes that good omlet is still a sad loss!Well others have done this on BYC and im gonna try .\
Just set some Light Brahmas eggs ...that were in the fridge for 2 or 3 weeks!!
PPl have orders in and of course the little brats have stopped laying almost totally or else are stashing them someplace when i let them out for their hour 1/2 free range in late afternoon. but i dont see them
So this will be REALLY interesting Cant wait now for day10 to see whats up!
Checked my fridge and with carton closed its 4 celcius which is 39,2 F so not freezing so not ideal 55 but maybe doable
Nothing lost but a good omelet if they dont..
I love, love, the color of your eggs! The nice dark greens, the dark browns, the blue, blue's..nice.DAY 10!!! This is what I had at day 5:
and this is what I have at day 10:
out of what is left I have 13 with clear little chickies swimming all over the place! 14 are too dark to see anything at all, and 2 I suspect are quitters, but I am giving it til the 17th day now.
I just chucked 7. 2 were BAD blood rings, thick, and sad looking. 4 were infertile I am sure, and 1 looked scrambled.
so, if even HALF of the dark ones are chickies moving and I cant see them that gives me 20 out of 48 eggs....BUT, a DOZEN of those eggs were ALL infertile I think...so not too shabby for my first go...of course...never count your chickens before they hatch!!
