Thanks, everyone, those baby goosers are totally stinking cute. I can't take any credit for that, of course, but I am loving them!
How, may I ask, does one submit a picture for POW?
To answer the color question, the seller has separate breeding pens for her several breeds of chickens, including separating the Ameraucanas from the Easter Eggers. Her Ams are blues and blacks--both colors of boths hens and roosters. So theoretically there should be blues/blacks/splashes from those matings. The seller told me, however, that she has yet to get a splash from these birds. (Which could mean her blue roos and her blue hens aren't fond of each other? Do I have that right--blue x blue you get some splash?)
Anyway, she had the eggs marked, and the three Ams that hatched are all dark--either black or an off black. The yellow chicks all hatched from eggs marked EE. She described her EE's as "mixed colors." So wait and see! I'm especially interested in the yellow chick with the gray racing stripes...
Mutts, how did your EO hatch turn out? Are the chicks as super-friendly as advertised? And I know you said you had some Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Am eggs too. Were those the super sky-blue eggs that were in several BYC auctions? How blue were the eggs acutally when you got them?
And Mutts, have to say a big "thank you" for posting the aveca guidelines for shipped eggs. I don't know of course what would have happened if I'd just set my shipped eggs the normal way--but those air cells were seriously wacked out, so I have to think those techniques helped me to get the hatch I did. Did you use the techmiques too? I know you've been hatching like cuh-razy this spring--what kind of a hatch rate have you seen?
So she said the sample was negative for cocci but she found 4 Capillaria. She said that is a small enough number to do nothing, but then told me "I don't know birds so you may know better. " Anyone? I don't know what a Capillaria is even or if I should treat it or how.
