I have to talk POLISH!

[Marthab1953]

are Polish hard to breed? I'm having a hard time incubating them, and then if they hatch, they died within a month any suggestions?

I hatch out Bantam Polish all the time with no problems. I have some due to hatch out the 21st.

 

[kabhyper1]

So my little one has white wing feathers coming in. She is a white crested black. Is that normal? Do they lose those white wing feathers as they grow?

 

[K Epp]

Yes mine did the same thing. By the time she was completely feathered out she was all black except for the crest.

 

[kabhyper1]

I took this tonight, she is on the far right. Lots of white feathers lol.

 

[coop-er]

Yes mine did the same thing. By the time she was completely feathered out she was all black except for the crest.

Same here, I have 2 and they lost their white wing feathers by 4 weeks.

 

[dolfi]

I hatch out Bantam Polish all the time with no problems.  I have some due to hatch out the 21st.

Idk it's been hard to start my babies. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Yet my mixed hatch great at about 95%.

 

[seminolewind]

are Polish hard to breed? I'm having a hard time incubating them, and then if they hatch, they died within a month any suggestions?

I get a lot of infertile eggs. But never had a problem hatching them. I use 3 thermometers in my bator and keep the temp as close to 100 degrees as I can. Watch how much fluxuation there is, if you have some, place some bubble wrap over the bator.

I hope you candle, so you can see at 1 week if you have infertile eggs, and can watch the progress and maybe try to figure out why they are not hatching.

Once they are born, I learned the hard way that they needed their chick feed ground up smaller. I lost my first Polish not realizing that she couldn't eat the crumbles. My next batch had started peeping a lot around 7 days and I watched them eat and realized that they weren't really eating, mostly flingling or dropping the crumble. I ground it up and they were like vultures. Now I just grind all chick feet for the first week or two.

Do you have any thoughts at all about why they die prior to a month old?

 

[dolfi]

I get a lot of infertile eggs.  But never had a problem hatching them.  I use 3 thermometers in my bator and keep the temp as close to 100 degrees as I can.  Watch how much fluxuation there is, if you have some, place some bubble wrap over the bator.

I hope you candle, so you can see at 1 week if you have infertile eggs, and can watch the progress and maybe try to figure out why they are not hatching.

Once they are born, I learned the hard way that they needed their chick feed ground up smaller.  I lost my first Polish not realizing that she couldn't eat the crumbles.  My next batch had started peeping a lot around 7 days and I watched them eat and realized that they weren't really eating, mostly flingling or dropping the crumble.  I ground it up and they were like vultures.  Now I just grind all chick feet for the first week or two.

Do you have any thoughts at all about why they die prior to a month old?

that might be the problem. I'll try it. Thanks

 

[Animals970]

that might be the problem. I'll try it. Thanks

Good luck!!

 

[juststruttin]

I just had to collect some Polish Head shots for another project so I thought I would post some here too. Gotta love top hats!