Out of the 12 eggs we sent to my nieces' teacher to incubate, only 4 hatched. I'm leaning toward an incubator issue rather than a fertility issue, based on the fact that I'm incubating 8 of our eggs right now, and they're all fertile and developing normally. Anyway, we picked up the 4 little fluff butts yesterday. What sweet babies!
The silver/grey one is from our white crested blue Polish hen and a white silkie rooster; the little wild chipmunk one is from a Brahma hen (we think), and a silkie roo--she has 5 toes on one foot and 4 on the other; the black chick is out of an EE hen and possibly our red cochin bantam roo; and the yellow chick with the faint grey chipmunk coloring is out of our buff rock hen and probably the same silkie rooster. I guess the silkie really gets around! We purposely picked a bunch of different eggs, hoping for a good variety, and we weren't disappointed!
The silver/grey one is from our white crested blue Polish hen and a white silkie rooster; the little wild chipmunk one is from a Brahma hen (we think), and a silkie roo--she has 5 toes on one foot and 4 on the other; the black chick is out of an EE hen and possibly our red cochin bantam roo; and the yellow chick with the faint grey chipmunk coloring is out of our buff rock hen and probably the same silkie rooster. I guess the silkie really gets around! We purposely picked a bunch of different eggs, hoping for a good variety, and we weren't disappointed!