Week 2 Update [Posted Late, due to Holidays]
P1 - 01
Things One thru Four are doing well. Original weights, respectively (Ounces)
1.4 / 1.4 / 2.3 / 1.3
Current Weights, respectively (Ounces) - recorded above, but haven't organized my thoughts
5.6 / 5.7 / 11.4 / 6.1
Photos to follow, but Things Three and Four are early winners for weight gain, and are radically different in appearance. Three is Buff, reminds me a lot of the Cornish X chicks I bought last April, except for a few randomly placed black smudges on feathers. Real curious about adult plumage already. Clean yellow shanks.
Thing Four is "Blue/Black" without obvious banding or marking, looks like the undertones are some brown in some light. Black wings, tail, back, with a blue fluff to the chest and shanks. Clean legs, not as beefy, and slate-y. E+ gene?
Both birds were born with a few tail feathers, not just fluff.
Things One and Two both have smudges on the crown of the head, more distinct on Two, extending a bit around the skull, and had stripes on the wings at birth. Barring becoming more pronounced as they grow. Just developing tail feathers.
No effort made to sex any of them.
P1 - 02
Of the 12 eggs [unknown mothers] being incubated, 3 have been removed as infertile/failure to develop. The flock thanks me for their sacrifice. Remaining 9 have well developed air sacks at the broad end of their eggs, and seem to fill the rest of their shell with darkness. Sadly, the strength of my candling light (cell phone) does not allow me to discern movement, and I can only see shell veining on the very lightest of the eggs.
One of the removed infertiles was believed to be from an SLW hen, the other two are believed to be from "Rainbows". Remaining in the incubator are eggs believed to be from matings with Comets, Rainbows, Brahma with a possible CornishX. REALLY need to finish the new run and house to better partition the flocks.
Hatchings expected around 12/31
