June Hatch-A-Long

[Cturber]

3 babies now. 2 more pipped.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Just hatched yesterday- about 10 hours apart! They are awfully cute and we are dying to know the sex!

We don’t have a rooster but one of our hens (Mary Kate- the millefleur d’uccle) has been chronically broody this spring. These eggs were acquired from a neighbor and they are supposedly welsummer/buff orp mixes. She started sitting on them May 30th so we were surprised for our early arrivals! She’s still sitting on one last egg which is a welsummer/Hamburg mix... that one should auto-sex if it hatches. Fingers crossed!View attachment 2204161View attachment 2204163View attachment 2204164View attachment 2204165View attachment 2204167

Mary Kate is the sweetest little D'uccle! Congratulations on your new littles!

 

[FortCluck]

I don’t know what color to call this but she’s all white with silver barring like a barred rock... Sookie is GORGEOUS. Absolute keeper. My family has a joke with my husband and call him a pirate. I put Sookie on his shoulder all the time like a pirates parrot

My phone wasn’t focusing

 

[LadiesAndJane]

I don’t know what color to call this but she’s all white with silver barring like a barred rock... Sookie is GORGEOUS. Absolute keeper. My family has a joke with my husband and call him a pirate. I put Sookie on his shoulder all the time like a pirates parrot

My phone wasn’t focusing

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LOVE the coloring! What breed is Sookie, one of your Deathlayer crosses?

 

[CindyinSD]

Yes but it doesn’t entirely work that way..... Metzer has wholesale contracts that are paid for up front so they may hatch 1,000 of a breed but Meyer has already bought 200 or whatever, just an example. the Africans I ordered were sold out at Metzer but Meyer still had some.

a lot of things are this way.

if a meat bird requires an order of 25, they’re not coming from the hatchery, they’re coming from somewhere else. Anything that says “can’t be mixed” or “cannot be picked up” is drop shipped.

almost every single guinea in the entire country comes from one hatchery.

most waterfowl comes from Metzer, but for sure most sexed waterfowl. If it’s not sexed it comes from the hatchery selling it usually. It’s weird to me that waterfowl is supposed to be easier to sex but they don’t do it. Like ideal. They hatch lots of waterfowl bit don’t sex any. neither does Hoover.

I got sexed geese from Runnings last spring. I'm pretty sure they buy from Hoover...

 

[Vantic]

For those of you on the “mainland“, people seem to do well with Trader Joe’s fertilized eggs for some reason.

Just check the package date. That is the day they were layed.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Just found out that the two birchen marans that I kept, out of all the marans I hatched last month, are likely female! Breeder saw their combs and was pretty convinced they are pullets. They are barely four weeks, isn’t it too early to tell? I sold the other five that I had as straight run and kept these two because I liked the blue’s coloring and the other one is the one I had to assist and had chick physical therapy in a cup for a day and a half. So excited if it’s true!
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I read that it has to do with the shape of the comb and the points. Young roos have their little bumps going up in a small (very small ) mound/hump fashion in the middle, while girls are supposedly flat along the top of the points. That's what I read anyway.

 

[FortCluck]

LOVE the coloring! What breed is Sookie, one of your Deathlayer crosses?

I don’t know either ours or our friends farm.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

I don’t know what color to call this but she’s all white with silver barring like a barred rock... Sookie is GORGEOUS. Absolute keeper. My family has a joke with my husband and call him a pirate. I put Sookie on his shoulder all the time like a pirates parrot

My phone wasn’t focusing

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Maybe he'll look like a Bluebar?

 

[FortCluck]

Maybe he'll look like a Bluebar?

Drooling I just looked that up