March 2017! Hatch with us!

[HenLeia]

oh my goodness! I hear chirping! Pretty much gave up on my hatch because of the lockdown amnesia and the fluctuating temps from my extra thermometer/ hygrometers after I raised the humidity.

here's to hoping for miracle babies.

 

[HenLeia]

I'm sorry they both were roos!  I hope your next hatch is all girls!

It's funny...I hatched a dozen silkies around Thanksgiving.  NOT ONE is developing streamers.  They all have big round fluffy heads.  I'm HOPING!!!!

Good luck! I just bought a couple of silkies with my Cornish rocks. Same odds I guess

 

[orrpeople]

oh my goodness! I hear chirping! Pretty much gave up on my hatch because of the lockdown amnesia and the fluctuating temps from my extra thermometer/ hygrometers after I raised the humidity.

here's to hoping for miracle babies.

Okay, little chickies, you can do this!!

 

[yeye5]

So this weekends hatch is over. Only had 6 eggs because that was all the space I had open after removing clears on day 7 from last weekend's set. 4 tiny bantams of 6 hatched. 1-silver duckwing OEGB, 1-self blue OEGB, 1-black ohiki, and 1-silkie/self-blue mix. Now they join the lone SDW that hatched last weekend with all those monster lavender Orpingtons! Lol

Set 22 more lavender Orpingtons last night, so they will be due April 8 weekend.

23 call ducks still going strong to lockdown this week, due Friday! 5 more days!!

 

[yeye5]

The one that didn't want to be eggtopsied yesterday! I got two of the blacks, but no splash this time.


Got almost all males... except one lone



My little chubby dude!

Also several Swedish Flowers that have already been sold.

They each are lovely! Despite the poop% it really looks like you got "the cream of the crop" (I didn't just say that).

Oh, to live closer to you, oh to have bought a few Swedish Flowers...just plain OH! And Congrats!

 

[yeye5]

@crchicks
In the pics of your eggs, I see the pastel green ones.
I had been calling my Myrtle (killed in the string of predator attcks recently) an OE, but I saw 2 ppl's pics and their O for olive was really olive color. So I'm wondering what the mint green are called, if Myrtle was an EE...
I'm also strongly hoping to get a couple of new EE's into my flock this season. I have a light pink layer that recently started laying (I say to myself, "this egg looks pink") and compare it to the tan/beige eggs that a few of my other ladies lay. It IS pink which is why it looks that way.
I also have one that is laying what I can only describe as "dark mauve"(?). If you took the light pink and intensified the color by 3X the color, it would look like the mauve eggs. Is that an EE also?

I'll take a few pics for better egg I.D.
Since you seem to have a large variety in your colors--lots of ppl on this thread have fabulous color eggs--and I'll ask the question that way again.

 

[Birdydeb]

Not really helping you on the olive egg question because I don't know. But as far as pink eggs, my BR hen lays light pink eggs. Just enough pink that I can definitely tell her eggs from the others.

 

[orrpeople]

They each are lovely! Despite the poop% it really looks like you got "the cream of the crop" (I didn't just say that).

Oh, to live closer to you, oh to have bought a few Swedish Flowers...just plain OH! And Congrats!

Ah, thanks! I told my husband last night that I just need to get a big sheet out, lay it on the floor and spend time with my new babies to just appreciate what little miracles they all are!

 

[Birdydeb]

My two late hatches from my mixed flock: one black chick and one yellow. The little black one didn't make it which was kind of a blessing because it had deformed feet way worse than just curled toes. The little yellow one is struggling. so I guess just wait and see.

 

[WVduckchick]

Not really helping you on the olive egg question because I don't know. But as far as pink eggs, my BR hen lays light pink eggs. Just enough pink that I can definitely tell her eggs from the others.

Interesting tidbit on egg color. I'm down to 2 golden comets in my free-range (well, ex-free-range) pen. These are their eggs for the last 3 days.
Obviously the 3 on top were from one girl, but if you look close, they are partially speckled... one is speckled fairly evenly, one on the air cell end, and one on the pointy end.

With the bottom 3, the two on the left are almost identical color, but look at the difference in the right egg. I had gotten those pretty rosy eggs before and always assumed they were from the same individual hen. Maybe they were some sort of "cycle" egg from each girl. (I had up to 10 at one time, darn predators took most of them)