I had about 30 pure welsummer eggs in the bator and 8 welsummer rooster x brown leg horn eggs in there all due to hatch tonight. Well before I got home from work I had 9 pure welsummer eggs hatch and all of the mix eggs. I had planned to remove the white leghorn eggs and hatch them in a stryo bator so I could band the chicks and use them for egg production next year.
Here is my problem....I can't really tell which ones are the welsummer leghorn crosses. I have 9 chicks that are much lighter then the rest but only 8 mixed eggs went in the bator.
Can anyone tell me how I will tell these birds apart? will they have white earlobes anything that should stick out that will help me to identify?
I tagged all the chicks so I know they could be a poss cross so I can keep them seperate from the pure chicks still hatching.
Thanks a million to anyone who can answer
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Here is my problem....I can't really tell which ones are the welsummer leghorn crosses. I have 9 chicks that are much lighter then the rest but only 8 mixed eggs went in the bator.
Can anyone tell me how I will tell these birds apart? will they have white earlobes anything that should stick out that will help me to identify?
I tagged all the chicks so I know they could be a poss cross so I can keep them seperate from the pure chicks still hatching.
Thanks a million to anyone who can answer
