March 2023 hatch-a-long

[Backyard Divas]

Is there a chance my humidity is too high? I have 4 chicks hatched in a Brinsea mini but they are still so wet and lots of condensation on the clear glass of incubator. I feel they are just getting wetter not dryer from all the humidty in the incubator?? HELP!!

I'm a novice but if you think they are just getting wetter I'd either remove the water from the incubator tray or take them out and put them in the brooder under a heat source to dry there (I took mine out and they were fine, Brinsea incubator too). They will cheap at you if they are uncomfortable. I'd be worried that too wet would be worse than drying in a heated environment.

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

Haha! You mean like this?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/pullets-or-cockerels-gold-deathlayer-x-various.1554797/

Or this

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/future-hens-or-roos-fbcm-x-ccl.1553319/

I totally would but didn't end up with fertile eggs so I'm just living vicariously on this thread. I'd follow you all on one for sure if someone starts one!

No fair - I thought I had come up with a brilliant idea, and someone beat me to it?!
How weird.. Well, I will not be defeated. Stay tuned

 

[Backyard Divas]

What is interesting is the two chicks that came from the white eggs he told me were leghorns..... look NOTHING alike, one was the solo yellow chick, and the other is the chick with the pink band on the chicks right leg (so the chick with the black face, not the copper face).
I have to get the kids to start coming up with names for the other chicks. So far only two have names

Chick with green bands on both legs - Zombie (early on I couldn't tell what was going on and almost pulled the egg from then incubator, but luckily I left it in another day and then was convinced otherwise).

And then the five toed chick... its name is Smitty.... Smitty WerbenJagerManJensen (because it was number 1)

Wow! Those are so different!!!

I wondered at the gene pool because if the roosters were not barred and the hens were, the ones with the spots would be cockerels. If they both are, then it is different and I'd guess that the one with the light diffused spot might be a cockerel and the ones with the defined spots would be pullets.

 

[Kwoka]

Have you ever seen five-toed before? I’ve never even heard of that, let alone seen it!

I know proper Silkies and faverolles have 5 toes, might be a few other breeds too.

 

[BobMcDuff]

Have you ever seen five-toed before? I’ve never even heard of that, let alone seen it!

We never had chicks/chickens before so I never saw regular chickens in detail before. Technically we aren't supposed to have them as our property isn't big enough (if we had an extra 1/2 acre though we would be able to have 100 birds). Several of our neighbors have them, no one actually cares so we decided to go with it.

Googling 5 toed chickens would say that it would likely be a descendant of only a few breeds of chickens (and the feathered feed would also narrow it down). I am curious to see they all grow out. I'll be keeping an eye for a grow-a-long thread.

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

I know proper Silkies and faverolles have 5 toes, might be a few other breeds too.

I learn something new here everyday

 

[junior67]

I believe there is a Feb/March grow-a-long going. I was wrong on who started it. it was lilwanderer.

hopefully this link works: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/february-march-grow-a-long.1563665/

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

We never had chicks/chickens before so I never saw regular chickens in detail before. Technically we aren't supposed to have them as our property isn't big enough (if we had an extra 1/2 acre though we would be able to have 100 birds). Several of our neighbors have them, no one actually cares so we decided to go with it.

Googling 5 toed chickens would say that it would likely be a descendant of only a few breeds of chickens (and the feathered feed would also narrow it down). I am curious to see they all grow out. I'll be keeping an eye for a grow-a-long thread.

I’ll be sure and tag you, as that little girl will have to be part of it. And of course the little cemani

 

[Austrian Chickens]

I've never seen a five toed chick before. That's pretty freaky! Any idea what the parental gene pool consisted of?

Silkies have 5 toes, feathers on there legs and the have black skin. But Kwoka just answered your question

 

[Waterfaery]

I had one that my broody was sitting on eggs....... long sad story short I don't have any due to hatch then anymore.

Sorry to hear that.