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I'm planning on it Cody. We have the 2 red Cochin cockerels and 2 black Cochin hens. We are going to need to do some tracking for sure. If you Google toe punch chart they come up. I was told not to use an actual toe punch though. They said instead just use super sharp scissors because the toe punch holes can close. But I need to read up a bit more in the next few days and get my decisions nailed down.
 
From what I've read if you punch the web then for a few days keep an eye on it, rub the scab off to keep it from closing up, it can also be re-punched. Or when you punch make the whole a little oversized. I guess the alternative is a wing band. I believe you can cut the nostril some how. At least that's what I've read here. I think the best plan is toe punch myself. At least maybe the least invasive and or painful. I can't rely on the plastic leg bands but there is the aluminum bands.
 
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Any ideas on chick sexing? From what I've read, chicks with the "wild" coloring can be sexed. So that would make Big Pip (at the feed) a pullet and Little Pip (at the water) a cockerel? I'm not sure on the others. If you put a white leghorn roo over a RIR hen, do you get a homemade sex link? If that's the case, then those three yellow chicks would be cockerels. But one of them has auburn patches between the shoulders and on the tail. So that could mean something, I guess.
 
Cody A said:
Yea. I'll be ecstatic if I get a 50% hatch out of shipped eggs. 
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My first two well the first one 2 out of 12 but it got unplugged . The 2 nd I hatcher 50% out of my own eggs. So I would be happy if you get 50% too. Take notes of what went wrong and right and hopefully improve every hatch. Pam
 
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Any ideas on chick sexing? From what I've read, chicks with the "wild" coloring can be sexed. So that would make Big Pip (at the feed) a pullet and Little Pip (at the water) a cockerel? I'm not sure on the others. If you put a white leghorn roo over a RIR hen, do you get a homemade sex link? If that's the case, then those three yellow chicks would be cockerels. But one of them has auburn patches between the shoulders and on the tail. So that could mean something, I guess.
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I'm not sure about that. My sexting breeds well the biefeleders the males have less color. In my legbars one Line less color the other are a darker grey that's the roos the poulets are chipmunk color like the one of yours you think are cockerels . Pam
 
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The ones like nail clippers with the lever for leverage. Yes there called a "compound toe punch" I'm already on it. Thanks Linda :)

Oh. Should I mark both strains or just one. I'm thinking I should be marking both say a right outside and a left outside or something like that.
 
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Ron Skekel said:
My first two well the first one 2 out of 12 but it got unplugged . The 2 nd I hatcher 50% out of my own eggs. So I would be happy if you get 50% too. Take notes of what went wrong and right and hopefully improve every hatch. Pam
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Well, up to now I wouldn't change anything. Temps and humidity have been good. I've lost a lot of the eggs from coastline. There were a few porous, I think most of them never started as there were only a few bloodrings. I don't think I can blame the reason of not being fertile because being shipped adds to many variables and it would not be fair to the seller. But it will be nice to compare one day when I can incubate eggs that weren't shipped. I was sent 3-4 pullet eggs and they're all developing. I've read that females are most fertile in their first year of lay so that makes me wonder about the fertility of the ones that didn't do anything. I don't know if this is good reasoning or not :)
 

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