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

[CluckNDoodle]

Just a few update photos of the chicks with my broody hens! I have 1 Mottled Orpington rooster left (the other 2 were rehomed, all roosters) with my Frosted Legbar (that is hopefully a pullet!) and I still can't tell if the 3 True Blue chicks are roos or pullets yet but they're super cute to watch running around with the hens!
I kept my summer heat incubated Olive Egger chick as well and my daughter named her Luna Lovegood, lol. There is also another True Blue and a Crested Cream Legbar that are still in the indoor brooder with the OE, Shirley Temple and Sunny Side Up (which is what I really wanted to name the Olive Egger but I lost that dispute. lol!) Here's to hoping for more pullets in this round of grow outs!

 

[jolenesdad]

Just a few update photos of the chicks with my broody hens! I have 1 Mottled Orpington rooster left (the other 2 were rehomed, all roosters) with my Frosted Legbar (that is hopefully a pullet!) and I still can't tell if the 3 True Blue chicks are roos or pullets yet but they're super cute to watch running around with the hens!
I kept my summer heat incubated Olive Egger chick as well and my daughter named her Luna Lovegood, lol. There is also another True Blue and a Crested Cream Legbar that are still in the indoor brooder with the OE, Shirley Temple and Sunny Side Up (which is what I really wanted to name the Olive Egger but I lost that dispute. lol!) Here's to hoping for more pullets in this round of grow outs!

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So lovely!!!! I KNOW that frosted legbar is a girl. I just feel it.

If you were going to pick just ONE breed to work with what would it be?

 

[CluckNDoodle]

So lovely!!!! I KNOW that frosted legbar is a girl. I just feel it.

If you were going to pick just ONE breed to work with what would it be?

ONE breed?!
Lol, Hmm, in reality I would probably choose Olive Eggers and this is my reasoning, I love having a multicolored flock with multicolored eggs but I would want to expand the plumage color options with the olive egg layers. I'm lucky to have blue olive eggers but I find most of them are black. There are also some great olive eggs with brown speckles that I would love to be able to breed as a standard color to be expected along with the rich avocado colored eggs. So while English Orpingtons are high on my list of breeds that I love, if I actually wanted to try to improve a breed, it would probably be based on egg colors just because I love a colorful egg basket!

 

[jolenesdad]

ONE breed?!
Lol, Hmm, in reality I would probably choose Olive Eggers and this is my reasoning, I love having a multicolored flock with multicolored eggs but I would want to expand the plumage color options with the olive egg layers. I'm lucky to have blue olive eggers but I find most of them are black. There are also some great olive eggs with brown speckles that I would love to be able to breed as a standard color to be expected along with the rich avocado colored eggs. So while English Orpingtons are high on my list of breeds that I love, if I actually wanted to try to improve a breed, it would probably be based on egg colors just because I love a colorful egg basket!

I know!!! Olive eggers are not that pretty, typically.

I ordered a partridge olive egger from my pet chicken once, which is a penedesenca/legbar cross. And I got a white one!!

I didn’t keep her, the egg was pretty drab and she wasn’t very tame at ALL, from a day one chick on.

I like your choice.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Ive been going through a bit of a rough patch with my flock. I was out of town for about 2 weeks and got back on Friday. When I did, I had already lost 6 birds while I was gone, and altogether up to today, we have lost a total of 14 birds. I don't understand what it is, they get really weak, and then give em a day, and they're dead.

I’m so sorry to hear that! I hope that you are able to figure it out and don’t have any more losses!!!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Just a few update photos of the chicks with my broody hens! I have 1 Mottled Orpington rooster left (the other 2 were rehomed, all roosters) with my Frosted Legbar (that is hopefully a pullet!) and I still can't tell if the 3 True Blue chicks are roos or pullets yet but they're super cute to watch running around with the hens!
I kept my summer heat incubated Olive Egger chick as well and my daughter named her Luna Lovegood, lol. There is also another True Blue and a Crested Cream Legbar that are still in the indoor brooder with the OE, Shirley Temple and Sunny Side Up (which is what I really wanted to name the Olive Egger but I lost that dispute. lol!) Here's to hoping for more pullets in this round of grow outs!

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Your free range birds always look so happy and healthy!!! I didn’t think that I liked the frosted legbars as much as the cream and Lavendar, but you frosted chick is to do for!!! Surely a girl... I love the updated pic of the coparenting hens too!!! I really need to get some new pics of my hens and chicks - they are getting so big! Naruto has gotten her chicks up on the roost, very cute but Naruto is causing lots of chaos by insisting on about 10 ft of roost space for her and the chicks... Her babies are so big, they are a pullet and cockerel OE, BCM over CCL. They are only a half week older than Susan’s Favorelles and Ameraucana chicks, but are quite a bit bigger. Susan’s chicks were the Hatchery chicks and supposed to be pullets, but one Favorelle is a definite cockerel and another might be as well, so I think it will be an even split... I also think 1/3 of the Ameraucana “pullets” is looking pretty boyish! Sigh. Overall though, I’ve been happy with all the chicks and am grateful to have them.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Your free range birds always look so happy and healthy!!! I didn’t think that I liked the frosted legbars as much as the cream and Lavendar, but you frosted chick is to do for!!! Surely a girl... I love the updated pic of the coparenting hens too!!! I really need to get some new pics of my hens and chicks - they are getting so big! Naruto has gotten her chicks up on the roost, very cute but Naruto is causing lots of chaos by insisting on about 10 ft of roost space for her and the chicks... Her babies are so big, they are a pullet and cockerel OE, BCM over CCL. They are only a half week older than Susan’s Favorelles and Ameraucana chicks, but are quite a bit bigger. Susan’s chicks were the Hatchery chicks and supposed to be pullets, but one Favorelle is a definite cockerel and another might be as well, so I think it will be an even split... I also think 1/3 of the Ameraucana “pullets” is looking pretty boyish! Sigh. Overall though, I’ve been happy with all the chicks and am grateful to have them.

Thanks! I'm hopeful the Frosted Legbar is a pullet as well, my luck isn't so bad that they would all be roosters...I hope, lol.
I would love to see update pics of Susan and Naruto with their chicks! I'm surprised a hatchery made that many mistakes on sexing the chicks! I wonder if they would reimburse you.

 

[CluckNDoodle]

Took a few pictures of the 3 remaining chicks from my July hatch and forgot to turn on the flash on my camera, lol. Left is the early Olive Egger (Luna Lovegood), center is a Crested Cream Legbar (Sunny Side Up), and right is a Whiting True Blue (Shirley Temple). These are the 3 we decided to keep for the grow out! Fingers crossed I don't have to rehome roosters this time! lol

 

[john_wrightson2003]

Well, under the broody that I mentioned yesterday, we had 4 chicks hatch overnight, 3 is black, which I don't know if they are black australorp or black copper maran yet, and one splash copper maran, still 3 eggs to go, and one of the black chicks got trampled by its MEAN mom, and now both of its legs are broken, I don't think its gonna make it cause its completely crippled. But I'm just glad to finally have atleast something close to a successful hatch!

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

Well, under the broody that I mentioned yesterday, we had 4 chicks hatch overnight, 3 is black, which I don't know if they are black australorp or black copper maran yet, and one splash copper maran, still 3 eggs to go, and one of the black chicks got trampled by its MEAN mom, and now both of its legs are broken, I don't think its gonna make it cause its completely crippled. But I'm just glad to finally have atleast something close to a successful hatch!

Oh no! Glad that your chicks are hatching but that sounds like a terrible injury!!!