March 2017! Hatch with us!

[WVduckchick]

I love this! You painted the perfect picture of chicken "parenting"! They are such fun... and even when I'm out cleaning poop boards, I never resent it! I look forward to hearing about your incubator construction project in the future!!

x2! Pleasurable little chits, they are!

 

[Cerise1924]

Gorgeous!!!

Thank you!

All chickies are cute, aren't they?

 

[Cerise1924]

Well march is gone now but I'm glad I was here to experiance all the great hatches and get all the encouragement with mine. My hatch was a bust but my rescue wasn't! Thanks to you guys I'm glad I didn't give up on my bantam eggs! I still have 10 of the 10 that hatched from 11 almost frozen eggs. That was the most unexpected hatch I have had that kep me up on my toes for 3 days! From a Miracle came the little bantams and I have all of you guys and God to thank for! It was less than 14 hours between putting them in the incubator and the first one hatching!
With your help and support I have my flock returning to what it was before my devistation and more!
With your help I can go outside and enjoy my birds again they have become a rock that I stand on and n my older age. Something that keeps me going, makes my days bearable, worthgetting up for! I love just sit and watch them interact with each other one pick something up and run while the others so courious they give chase like a rugby match or a soccer game all the tuck and running they do it's so fun to watch. I can again grab my coffee and sneak outside and watch them come out for the start of the day stretching of the night air. The roosters crowing to tell the others around this is my flock and I'm here to protect it! The hens clucking around not a worry in the world scratching in the dirt to find the occasional worm or treat that got away last night just to be consumed that morning. Me walking into the run watching all of them run up to greet me some even wanting to be petted or picked up! Working during the morning hours with an audience watching my every move as I cut the wood for the new nest boxes or the door to a new section of coop I'm building. Listening in as a hen clucks out she has laid an egg and other hens cackling on with her. It's great to just st enjoy the little things in life that for all the years have missed in your life and to have all of that makes this old man happy to be a part of this group. And for all that I thank you all and letting me share through your eyes your stories of hatching your own little wonders

That is so beautifully said, and warms my heart very much.

 

[Birdydeb]

X2....or actually I think it is x4 now. Beautifully said....I agree. I will be talking about your miracle save for a long time to come.

 

[Cerise1924]

Happy April!

The light is rather low, but I snapped pics of my March 31 hatch. 9 out of 9 hatched out happy and healthy - Thank you, Papa's Poultry!

These are my Orpingtons. Charlotte and Anne are Jubilee (possibly Blue Jubilee), and Emily in the front appears to be a Mottled/Spangled Orpington.


Charlotte, first to hatch, showing off the compass on her back. This chick eats and eats! It started stuffing its face as soon as it was fluffed. So much for not needing food the first 72 hours. I am going to have one roly-poly Orpington.

Here we have four Easter Eggers and an Olive Egger. The Olive Egger is not the one in the middle that looks different. That's an EE for sure. The Olive Egger is the little prankster who sneaked out of the shell and left it looking intact, then blended in with the EEs.


I suspect this is my Olive Egger.


Is there a name for the colouring on this EE? I wonder what it will look like when it feathers out.


I had to assist this last little chick, a Marans. Papa's has Lavender Marans, so I'm guessing that's what this is.


The little Marans - the tiniest of the chicks. Look at that little fuzzy French leg!

(And that's it.)
Thanks for being the best hatching group ever!! Wishing you all a wonderful spring with your chickens, ducks and turkeys.

 

[Birdydeb]

Well, I ended up with 16 ducklings and 11 chicks. 8 of the ducklings have sold and gone and all of the chicks but 2 that I just "had" to keep since they were yellow. This meant they were definitely my BR roo over an ISA Brown hen. I have to say they are slowly turning into some interesting looking chicks....white was some spots of black. What they also are turning into are some of the meanest chicks I have ever encountered. Seriously. They hatched the 24th...a week old yesterday and they fight each other in the brooder and attack my hand when I am changing feed or water. Either they are both roosters(how lucky ) or they are just simply mean chicks. I guess my curiosity is satisfied and I don't think I will be doing this again anytime soon.

My incubator that is still going with Bielefelder and Cochin/Frizzle eggs will be an April hatch. Thank you all for letting me slide in here so close to the end. I agree, a great bunch of people and I have learned A LOT.

 

[DancingWthDucks]

Overall I ended up with 7 gorgeous fluffy chicks of various colour, and some with beards and fluffy feet .

(Not the best pics, since they are constantly running around...)

I've got some Welsh Harlequin, and hopefully some Indian Runners going in to the Brinsea this week .

 

[Cerise1924]

Overall I ended up with 7 gorgeous fluffy chicks of various colour, and some with beards and fluffy feet

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(Not the best pics, since they are constantly running around...)

I've got some Welsh Harlequin, and hopefully some Indian Runners going in to the Brinsea this week

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[Birdydeb]

Absolutely adorable chicks! I'm putting Ancona(ducks) in the incubator this week. Next Harlequin hatch is scheduled for middish April and it is not my eggs...a different bloodline to improve my little flock. I think the Anconas are pretty much presold and the part of the Harlequin hatch I don't want is presold.

 

[Birdydeb]

These little guys went to the same lady...was cleaning the brooder and they did the pile on. LOL