My First Official Incubation: Fayoumis crosses and Leghorn crosses

[LilRedRoo]

Hooray for a successfaul hatch! I laughed when I looked at this pic regarding which chick was father by which rooster. That red one looks like a RIR if I've ever seen one!!! And I find it interesting that all of Foghorns' chicks are yellow (white). The 3 chicks that our BR hatched for us a while back were a cross using white leghorn hens and a buff-brahma bantam, and all three of them are bright white...just with feathered feet. Evidently the white feathering is a stronger genetic trait than I thought it'd be.

 

[davemonkey]

 

[davemonkey]

One last post for the students following along who like to mix real life with their math lessons. We are going to look at "mean, median, mode, and range" to decide if it's a good idea to sit and watch eggs hatch right after we see a "pip".

Mean = the average. You simply add up all the values in a list, then divide by the number of values. For example: in the list "1,2,3,3,4", there are 5 values. We add them: 1+2+3+3+4 = 13. Then we divide the total by 5. 13/5= 2.6 (or 2, Remainder 3). So, the "mean", or "average", is 2.6.

Median = the middle value in a list. To get this, the numbers have to be in numerical order. In our list "1,2,3,3,4,5", the very middle value is "3", so the median = 3.

Mode = the value that occurs the most often. In our list, "3" occurs twice, while all the others only occur once. So, the mode = 3.

Range = the difference between the largest and smallest numbers. In the list above, the range is "between 5 and 1", or "5 - 1". 5-1 = 4, so our range is 4. You can also just say, "between 5 and 1".

Of all the eggs that hatched, there were 13 that we feel confident in knowing when they pipped and when they hatched. Then number of hours that passed between "pip" and "hatch" was different for many of them. This list tells us how many hours passed between "pip" and actual "hatch" for 13 different chicks.

10, 10, 11, 12, 12, 12, 14, 16, 18, 19, 22, 22, 29

Using the above information, find mean, median, mode and range for the number of hours it takes a chick to hatch after it has pipped. Then, tell whether it's a good idea to sit and watch eggs hatch immediately after an egg has pipped. [Hint: how much fun is it to sit in a car driving for 10, or 12, or 29 hours?]

 

[davemonkey]

Quick update at 5 days old. After this, I'll be posting periodic updates on the Fayoumis crosses in the "Fayoumis Crosses" thread here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/829077/fayoumis-crosses/10#post_12249167


Our 4 week old chick finally warmed up to the chicks and they actually are following her as their mother. If we coax her out of the brooder, they follow. When she goes back in, they follow. If she runs, they run. She has been teaching them how to scratch for bugs, eat mosquitoes, and she even jumped at one of our full grown hens that came to check out the new babies. I think that is just phenomenal for a chick her age to display the traits of a broody hen like that for 18 baby chicks that are not much younger than she is.


Here is one of only 2 chicks that I can say with 100% certainty which egg it hatched from. This is the only feather-foot we got, Egg #3, White Leghorn x Bantam Brahma. I believe this one is a girl, and it's one of only 2 that I am very sure about.



Here is Skylark teaching them to eat various plants.



This is the other one I am certain which egg it came from, and I believe it's going to be a Roo. RIR x "production red". He hatched from Egg #7.



One of Chuck's clutch. I believe this is a Fayoumis x Barred Rock. The stripes in the feathering rule out Australorp in my opinion.

 

[LilRedRoo]

Skylark has a LOT of the Fayoumi trait in the hackle/cape area. That's neat that she's adopted the young ones; one of these days I'll have to sneak over to see how they look in person.

 

[Flat Earth]

I know this is from long time ago, I really like the mix! I mix Game rooster with Fayoumi and here what they look like.