My new Golden Cuckoo Marans babies :-)

[Rainbowbirds-of-a-Feather]

WOW!!!! Congrats and I love the head spots!!!! Are they sexable due to coloration?? Can you tell which ones are roos and which are hennies???

 

[Mahonri]

Seriously?... you got 11 to hatch under a broody?

 

[citalk2much]

Those are some cute babies

 

[redhen]

real cute! i hope i get some of mine to hatch....

 

[havi]

Thanks everyone. I love my little fluffy butts.

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Yes. The males have more yellow on them if Im correct. Im new at this breed so somebody might want to correct me on that. Also I think Melissa told me that the females are the darker ones. So I think I have two females and two males. But Im not sure.

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I wish! That would have been great. No I set 7 eggs under my broody hen and only 4 hatched. After a week or so I could tell one wasnt a good egg so I took it out. Left me with 6. Out of those only 4 hatched. Two didnt make it. On one of the two unborn eggs, I thought I heard chirpping, but Im not positive. I dont have the heart to open the eggs up to see what happened. Would I even be able to tell?


About 15 mins ago I put 7 babies, that I ordered from Ideal under mama hen. I sit out there for a couple mins to make sure she took them. So far so good! Im going to keep checking on her just to make sure though. The 7 babies I ordered from Ideal were: 2 White Leghorns(what they call 236's), 2 Easter Eggers and 3 Golden Sex-Links.

 

[Mahonri]

Nothing better than a hen to take care of your chicks!

 

[pasofinofarm]

I say two of each male and female.

When a hatch is staggered with more than 24 hours between chicks hatching the hen will often get up to take care of the new peeps and the other eggs get cold and die. It is better in the wild to mind the ones that have made it then to wait for ones that may never hatch. At 24 hours I take the rest of the eggs candle and set them myself.

What you would probably find on breakout is developed chicks maybe even piped into the air cell that got cold, especially if you heard one peeping. Since I always find that depressing I only do it on hatches gone bad. If I get a hatch on shipped egg less than 50% or on homegrown eggs less than 80%. Then I feel I owe it to myself to find out what I can about what may have gone wrong. If all of the peeps reached a certain point of developement... say day 15-16 then died I can be pretty sure that there was an incubator/broodie issue at that time... temp spike, power outtage, lid slipped off, grandkids played with the bator, broodie left the nest for too long... I have had them all.

I think that 4 chicks from 6 eggs is a good hatch. Congratulations!

Melissa