JUNE - JULY HATCH-ALONG!!!!!!!

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

The peachicks will be going to their new home tomorrow! She said she will post updates on them on her YouTube page so I'm really excited to be able to watch them grow!

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I started to take pictures of the chicks that hatched over the past couple days and then they pooped in the photo booth TWICE so I need to reset it again with clean stuff before I can continue. lol! I've been so fortunate to have very few poo incidents in there that the last few attempts to take pictures have been pretty comical!

On the right is the Olive Egger than hatched a few days ago, the middle OE was the first chick hatched the day before yesterday and then the left chick was the very last chick hatched in the wee hours of the morning this morning! Sleep is for the dead right! lol
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These are the trio of Wyandottes, 2 Silver Laced on the left and 1 Blue Laced Red on the right.
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The Whiting's True Blues and Legbars will have to wait until later for their first pictures because I'm exhausted!

Wow, how wonderful CluckNDoodle!!!! I knew you’d pull the blue peachick through!!!! Your OE are so cute!!! Are you keeping them? And... I must have forgotten about the Wyandotte’s and true blues and ... yeah, I’d be so exhausted too!!! Great looking crew of chicks! Congratulations!!!!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Great photos can’t wait to see the WTB!


Ugh. Heading to my worst hatch for sure.

Down to 35 eggs from 61. WOAH. All of those “further along” Silverudds quit too. WAAAAA. 2 Silverudds and ONE wheaten marans.

So many early quitters. Most from the closest shipping. But it still took two days. I’m pretty sure they sat in heat somewhere, because the drive is no more than three hours.

I’m sorry to hear that!!! We won’t rehash my poor shipped eggs experience, but I guess it’s like flipping a coin? Best of luck with the rest!!!

You may find this funny: so I insisted that DD and I clean the big brooder last night. DD was grumbling, because “the keets will just mess it up again”, which they did, they dumped all of their food again by this morning... And I was saying, “Well Jolenesdad cleans the brooder every day and checks every chick for pasty butt”. And DD gives me a very direct stare and replies in a very serious and measured tone, “Mom, you need to get off of BYC. Those people are not normal people.”

 

[CluckNDoodle]

“Mom, you need to get off of BYC. Those people are not normal people.”

I'm laughing so hard right now!!! She's absolutely right though. We're not normal, that's why I like everyone so much! LOL!

 

[jolenesdad]

I’m sorry to hear that!!! We won’t rehash my poor shipped eggs experience, but I guess it’s like flipping a coin? Best of luck with the rest!!!

You may find this funny: so I insisted that DD and I clean the big brooder last night. DD was grumbling, because “the keets will just mess it up again”, which they did, they dumped all of their food again by this morning... And I was saying, “Well Jolenesdad cleans the brooder every day and checks every chick for pasty butt”. And DD gives me a very direct stare and replies in a very serious and measured tone, “Mom, you need to get off of BYC. Those people are not normal people.”

Baaaahahahahahaha.

The only reason was because I overloaded it with 50 chicks.

I was thinking of you earlier I saw a post on FB of someone talking about co-Broodies and moms getting overwhelmed with other babies and hurting outsider chicks.

They were paraphrasing something and now I’m paraphrasing them, but it may work for your next guinea attempt... they had slatted nest areas and then brooding areas where the chicks could scurry and go in and out, but the hens were kept separate. Like pallet slats for example where the hens can’t get through but the chicks can.

Seemed brilliant to me.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

And the photo booth is back in action! These are the Whiting's True Blue chicks! They actually look a good bit different from the last 3 I hatched and I got them from the same source! The one in the middle looks the most like the other 3. Little redheads this time. lol

I just pulled the heat plate out and took a picture of the chick pile. LOL! I can tell them all apart when I pick them up but I can't seem to get my hands on all of the CCLs. Haha! I'm very low effort today. I thought maybe if I took a picture from the top I could identify how many roos/pullets I have and half of them look the same from the top!
I'm meeting a friend with 5 chicks for her broody hen this afternoon so maybe I can sort through and see if I have any CCL pullets left for myself. lol! She's getting 2 CCL pullets and a roo, I definitely have 2 Frosted CCLs, so I'll just have to see if the remaining chick is a pullet or a roo. I'm probably not so lucky to only hatch 1 CCL roo...I'll know by tonight. Maybe. lol

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

And the photo booth is back in action! These are the Whiting's True Blue chicks! They actually look a good bit different from the last 3 I hatched and I got them from the same source! The one in the middle looks the most like the other 3. Little redheads this time. lol

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I just pulled the heat plate out and took a picture of the chick pile. LOL! I can tell them all apart when I pick them up but I can't seem to get my hands on all of the CCLs. Haha! I'm very low effort today. I thought maybe if I took a picture from the top I could identify how many roos/pullets I have and half of them look the same from the top!
I'm meeting a friend with 5 chicks for her broody hen this afternoon so maybe I can sort through and see if I have any CCL pullets left for myself. lol! She's getting 2 CCL pullets and a roo, I definitely have 2 Frosted CCLs, so I'll just have to see if the remaining chick is a pullet or a roo. I'm probably not so lucky to only hatch 1 CCL roo...I'll know by tonight. Maybe. lol

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Does your CCL line have white spots on the pullets? Seeing some with female markings but white head spots?

 

[jolenesdad]

Does your CCL line have white spots on the pullets? Seeing some with female markings but white head spots?

I read this week that the purest legbar females will have some sort of spot and SHOULD have some sort of spot.

The autosexing traits are supposed to be judged within a particular line and not as a whole. For example a line could have females with a spot but males with a much more defined spot.

 

[Enigmius]

The smaller ducks are not wanting to accept the newest baby duckling; two of them started pecking at the poor thing. Its so sad, because it is all alone in its incubator now(with a small cup of water and a small cup of food.. I had today off from work and so I brought the duckling out of its incubator a couple of times and rubbed its breast with my thumb. It seems to like that btw. But I can't guarantee I will have tomorrow or the next day off, so I don't know what to do.

 

[jolenesdad]

The smaller ducks are not wanting to accept the newest baby duckling; two of them started pecking at the poor thing. Its so sad, because it is all alone in its incubator now(with a small cup of water and a small cup of food.. I had today off from work and so I brought the duckling out of its incubator a couple of times and rubbed its breast with my thumb. It seems to like that btw. But I can't guarantee I will have tomorrow or the next day off, so I don't know what to do.

Can you separate your brooder and pull one or two of the smallest out to be with the newbie? Then reintegrate all three after a day or two?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Does your CCL line have white spots on the pullets? Seeing some with female markings but white head spots?

Yes, the pullets have white spots on their heads.

I read this week that the purest legbar females will have some sort of spot and SHOULD have some sort of spot.

The autosexing traits are supposed to be judged within a particular line and not as a whole. For example a line could have females with a spot but males with a much more defined spot.

Yes, this lady has really nice CCLs but my other source has chicks that are SUPER easy to pick out pullet from roo. These I have to look a little harder but I can still sex them.

I have at least 3 pullets! I just saw them lined up next to each other, lol. I think I may only have 1 roo from this hatch and he already has a home!