february hatch along

[UThobbyfarmer]

Yes please! very interested to see what they look like hopefully it’s a girl! I bet they are beautiful coloured! The parents are shown below

These are some mixes I hatched last fall. They're probably half Polish half Easter Eggers. Both are off white. One has grey tones. The other buff tones. I has a rooster from this lot that hatched the same color and became much more buff. He's not around anymore or I'd snap a pic of him too.

 

[won023]

These are some mixes I hatched last fall. They're probably half Polish half Easter Eggers. Both are off white. One has grey tones. The other buff tones. I has a rooster from this lot that hatched the same color and became much more buff. He's not around anymore or I'd snap a pic of him too.

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Thanks for the photos! They are beautiful sorry about your roo and the photos make me really exited about when she/he grows up at what age can I tell them apart also?​

 

[Brooke215]

I just candled my four duck eggs. I saw movement in three and the other was too dark to really see. Today is lockdown, so hopefully I'll have my first ducks soon.

 

[chickenmama109]

sorry i have not been posting but im starting up my incubator tomorrow i had four chicks that just hatched two weeks ago but three died my one chick is very loney is there anything i can do for her

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

sorry i have not been posting but im starting up my incubator tomorrow i had four chicks that just hatched two weeks ago but three died my one chick is very loney is there anything i can do for her

Oh no! Any idea what happened?

 

[chickenmama109]

yes my brooder is in the garage and we had rats in there that we keep trying to get rid of and on my brooder there is a door and chicken wire so that the rats would not get in but there was a RAT in here this morning and he got three of my chicks know my one chick seen it all happen and will not move eat or drink

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Thanks for the photos! They are beautiful sorry about your roo and the photos make me really exited about when she/he grows up at what age can I tell them apart also?​

I'd say around 8 weeks. When they're fully feathered. That's when I started to notice the subtle differences in color start to show. Then it just intensifies as they age and grow new feathers. The chicks I'm the picture hatched in September.

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

yes my brooder is in the garage and we had rats in there that we keep trying to get rid of and on my brooder there is a door and chicken wire so that the rats would not get in but there was a RAT in here this morning and he got three of my chicks know my one chick seen it all happen and will not move eat or drink

Oh my goodness. That's heartbreaking. As least it can be prevented in the future.

We had a raccoon get in and massacre our first batch of chickens/ducks. We had about 30 birds. Only 5-6 really wiley type birds survived. I won't go into detail but I'll say it was complete carnage. We fortified our enclosure but I've tried to never allowed myself to get that attached to birds again.

 

[chickenmama109]

yes i will never put any brooders in the garage again i just dont know how to help my chick she is very lonly

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

yes i will never put any brooders in the garage again i just dont know how to help my chick she is very lonly

I'd buy her some buddies if possible. But I've raised some single chicks. They got raised in the house until 5-6 weeks.