June Hatch-A-Long

[kelseyk]

Pics please

I will try to take some pics when I do chores tonight.

 

[Trisseh]

Good to know that that they came packaged well from Breezy Bird Farms. I won't be ordering from DC Heritage any time soon as I know a little too much about their history and how they run things. Breezy Bird would probably be my only option for the Hedemoras right now

Agreed about DC Heritage!!

Oh? It’s so hard to know what to avoid around here, not a lot of options! I’ll let everyone know how that order goes then; I ordered chicks and ducklings to arrive the second week of June, so it’ll be interesting to see. Hopefully it goes ok... I don’t really want to lose my deposit... lol.

I’m very happy with the entire process from breezy bird, I’d probably be willing to order day olds from them next season if it works out The ordering process is fast and easy, the website is easy to navigate, and like I said, packed very well! And, I ordered on Monday and they were shipped Tuesday, arrived today right on time. I like.

 

[Offshoreorca]

Oh? It’s so hard to know what to avoid around here, not a lot of options! I’ll let everyone know how that order goes then; I ordered chicks and ducklings to arrive the second week of June, so it’ll be interesting to see. Hopefully it goes ok... I don’t really want to lose my deposit... lol.

I’m very happy with the entire process from breezy bird, I’d probably be willing to order day olds from them next season if it works out The ordering process is fast and easy, the website is easy to navigate, and like I said, packed very well! And, I ordered on Monday and they were shipped Tuesday, arrived today right on time. I like.

Yeah, options are limited in Canada for sure if you are looking for anything a bit out of the ordinary. I sourced within Nova Scotia this year for hatching eggs to avoid shipping them - so far so good. I've heard a lot of good things about Breezy Bird and they seem to keep good healthy birds

 

[Trisseh]

Yeah, options are limited in Canada for sure if you are looking for anything a bit out of the ordinary. I sourced within Nova Scotia this year for hatching eggs to avoid shipping them - so far so good. I've heard a lot of good things about Breezy Bird and they seem to keep good healthy birds

I’ll let y’all know how the hatch goes with these! My duck eggs that I got from there as well are on their final week, so far so good. All the eggs have been nice and clean too, which is a feat with duck eggs! Haha.

 

[mandi427]

Today we put 32 eggs in the incubator! Yay! Last hatch we found out that our roo is lazy - only about 25% of our eggs were fertile. I'm hoping for similar (or slightly higher) rates this time, I do not need to add another 32 chickens to our flock, lol!

 

[kelseyk]

I must have accidentally deleted the pics of one of the black Gem/Lavender Orpington crosses. Here have 5 of the 6. This is one of the black ones....it would not hold still. I think it is a pullet.

This is my definite cockerel in the color I really wanted.

Another black one - pullet. (The three black ones look pretty much identical).

This is the steel grey one. When I picked it up to take a picture I noticed that it has some bronze color on the tips of some of it's feathers. It also is the only one that had feathers on its legs and a weird hairdo. The person I got them from also has Copper Marans....so wondering if a Copper Maran rooster got in with the Sapphire Gems or Lavender Orpingtons. Having a hard time deciding pullet or cockerel on this one.

And this is my other lavender color chick. This one is the one I am most unsure about as it is starting to get color in it's waddles and it's comb has gotten bigger over the last week. I'm thinking cockerel.

They are 5 weeks today.

 

[BertyRoux]

I stole my husband's super bright work flashlight, nearly blinded myself in the process but I did an early day 10 candle just now and I'm pretty happy to see all 12 eggs with active little ones moving inside!

Good thing I came out here, too, as apparently the bulb went out in my brooder lamp on my 3 week olds.

 

[SharW75]

We will be setting one batch of eggs this evening, and have another batch coming in the next week. I guess it's gonna be a staggered hatch. Didn't want to have to do that, but I think we have it figured out.

 

[FortCluck]

I must have accidentally deleted the pics of one of the black Gem/Lavender Orpington crosses. Here have 5 of the 6. This is one of the black ones....it would not hold still. I think it is a pullet.
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This is my definite cockerel in the color I really wanted.View attachment 2153154View attachment 2153156
Another black one - pullet. (The three black ones look pretty much identical).
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This is the steel grey one. When I picked it up to take a picture I noticed that it has some bronze color on the tips of some of it's feathers. It also is the only one that had feathers on its legs and a weird hairdo. The person I got them from also has Copper Marans....so wondering if a Copper Maran rooster got in with the Sapphire Gems or Lavender Orpingtons. Having a hard time deciding pullet or cockerel on this one.
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And this is my other lavender color chick. This one is the one I am most unsure about as it is starting to get color in it's waddles and it's comb has gotten bigger over the last week. I'm thinking cockerel.
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They are 5 weeks today.

Looks like the black ones might have been mixed with the BCM or something if you’re seeing that color on their feather tips.

Very pretty

 

[kelseyk]

Looks like the black ones might have been mixed with the BCM or something if you’re seeing that color on their feather tips.

Very pretty

The steel grey one is the only one that has the copper on it. The black ones are all black except for a wing feather or 2 that are white. But I am wondering if maybe the black ones are also from an invading rooster....but don't know enough about genetics to know if there was a possibility to get black chicks out of that cross.