LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

[TwoCrows]

Heart Attack is the lighter colored one! Two more siblings are waiting to join them at night

Nice that they each have their own colors so you can tell them apart! Fabulous, you had a great first hatch!!

 

[fluffycrow]

Oh how egg-citing! She looks like she's going to be a great mom. ❤ You might lay a board up on the edge of the crate to make a ramp for the babies to go up and down.

The down part, you needn't worry. One has already left the nest twice, and I've had to grab it and put it back in

 

[fluffycrow]

Nice that they each have their own colors so you can tell them apart! Fabulous, you had a great first hatch!!

So far it's been great! There's still quite a few eggs in Electric Lady that's should be hatching

 

[TwoCrows]

So far it's been great! There's still quite a few eggs in Electric Lady that's should be hatching

These first chicks hatched pretty early at day 18-19, I am going to guess either your eggs started to develop before setting them in Electric Lady, (the summer heat will get them started,) along with temps that might be running a bit high in the machine which will cause early hatchers. However this higher heat can cause death of the eggs too. I would definitely get a good, small temp/humidity gauge you can put inside Electric Lady at your next hatch, and trust this inside gauge over the machines gauge.

 

[Canadian Wind]

Congratulations, Fluffy! You must be over the moon with all these nice healthy babies!

You need to call the one with all the leg feathers Fluffy II!

I have birds that should only have the one leg-feather gene be very feathered up, and others with only a few barely noticeable ones. That one doesn't look like it has too many? At least to me. They aren't coming out of it's toes.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Jacin, or anyone else who's interested in genetics, I have a problem for you! So you know that Big Red should be the father of the brahma× chick, well I'm starting to think he might not be the father at all! The chick has too many leg feathers, just like a brahma. Isn't leg feathering incomplete dominant? Wouldn't a cross between a clean legged bird and a feather legged one produce offspring with slightly less feathers on the legs? The comb is pea, by the wayView attachment 3600080

Looks pretty normal. I honestly don't pay attention to feathers on the legs apart from my cochins and to use them to try figure out who the parents are since if it's clean legged, I know mama has to be clean legged in my flock

 

[fluffycrow]

These first chicks hatched pretty early at day 18-19, I am going to guess either your eggs started to develop before setting them in Electric Lady, (the summer heat will get them started,) along with temps that might be running a bit high in the machine which will cause early hatchers. However this higher heat can cause death of the eggs too. I would definitely get a good, small temp/humidity gauge you can put inside Electric Lady at your next hatch, and trust this inside gauge over the machines gauge.

I'm going to go out in a limb and say that it wasn't the temperature being off in Electric Lady, or something of that nature. I too believe that it was from them beginning development before entering her. I say that because on lockdown when I candled the eggs, some seemed more ahead of the game than others, and only two looked infertile/quitters. I will candle again tonight when I'm taking out the two chicks to be sure though. I'll definitely get what you said for my next hatch, though. Even if Electric Lady works perfectly fine, which she probably does, it was way too stressful

 

[fluffycrow]

Looks pretty normal. I honestly don't pay attention to feathers on the legs apart from my cochins and to use them to try figure out who the parents are since if it's clean legged, I know mama has to be clean legged in my flock

Congratulations, Fluffy! You must be over the moon with all these nice healthy babies!

You need to call the one with all the leg feathers Fluffy II!

I have birds that should only have the one leg-feather gene be very feathered up, and others with only a few barely noticeable ones. That one doesn't look like it has too many? At least to me. They aren't coming out of it's toes.

Thank you! And yes, I very much am! So you both are basically saying that Big Red could still be the father!

 

[TwoCrows]

I'm going to go out in a limb and say that it wasn't the temperature being off in Electric Lady, or something of that nature. I too believe that it was from them beginning development before entering her. I say that because on lockdown when I candled the eggs, some seemed more ahead of the game than others, and only two looked infertile/quitters. I will candle again tonight when I'm taking out the two chicks to be sure though. I'll definitely get what you said for my next hatch, though. Even if Electric Lady works perfectly fine, which she probably does, it was way too stressful

Yes it's definitely common in the summer when storing eggs before setting for them to start developing. They say temps above 21°C starts the process at a slow crawl. These that hatched yesterday were probably collected first. Over time incubator gauges come out of calibration, they all do eventually for some reason. So it's always wise to have a separate gauge inside the machine to compare it to, these little lives are so delicate and it puts your mind at ease as well.

 

[fluffycrow]

Yes it's definitely common in the summer when storing eggs before setting for them to start developing. They say temps above 21°C starts the process at a slow crawl. These that hatched yesterday were probably collected first. Over time incubator gauges come out of calibration, they all do eventually for some reason. So it's always wise to have a separate gauge inside the machine to compare it to, these little lives are so delicate and it puts your mind at ease as well.

Oh yeah, with these temps it's surprising they didn't hatch at 8 days old! Also explains why the babies don't really care about being either heat source