4theLoveofBirds
In the Brooder
Hello all,
Yesterday was a very exciting morning. For the first time I successfully hatched peachicks! I tried twice before with some eggs I bought on the other side of the city from where I live with no luck. This year my birds are 2 years old and started laying. I have a pied male with a BS and an IB hen with unknown splits. Started with 7 eggs in my tiny Brinsea mini advanced with the egg disc modified with my dremel tool to fit the eggs so I could use the turner. 2 failed to develop. Day 27 I woke up to chirping and was shocked to see a baby almost hatched as I was not expecting them for another couple days. However we are in AZ so the weather has been triple digits so I am guessing they had a small start already before I put them in. Anywho, of the 5 eggs 4 hatched one died in shell before pipping. I opened his egg this morning to see what happened and it appears he had a defect and some of his insides were outside of his abdomen, Gross! I do have 5 eggs I sent across the highway to someone else who has a cabinet brooder and those are due to hatch next week. So my question is (as I have raised my current adults from a week old but no others), when looking at the pied baby is it a regular IB pied or....? And then one of the seemingly normal colored babies is a lighter reddish color compared to the other two. Does this mean anything? Also....I am pretty certain they all came from my IB hen and not the BS hen so any chance any of the colors autosexed? I think I read somewhere awhile ago that some color combos when crossed will produce females of one color and males of the other. Here are some pics of yesterdays hatch! Thank you all in advance for any insight.
Yesterday was a very exciting morning. For the first time I successfully hatched peachicks! I tried twice before with some eggs I bought on the other side of the city from where I live with no luck. This year my birds are 2 years old and started laying. I have a pied male with a BS and an IB hen with unknown splits. Started with 7 eggs in my tiny Brinsea mini advanced with the egg disc modified with my dremel tool to fit the eggs so I could use the turner. 2 failed to develop. Day 27 I woke up to chirping and was shocked to see a baby almost hatched as I was not expecting them for another couple days. However we are in AZ so the weather has been triple digits so I am guessing they had a small start already before I put them in. Anywho, of the 5 eggs 4 hatched one died in shell before pipping. I opened his egg this morning to see what happened and it appears he had a defect and some of his insides were outside of his abdomen, Gross! I do have 5 eggs I sent across the highway to someone else who has a cabinet brooder and those are due to hatch next week. So my question is (as I have raised my current adults from a week old but no others), when looking at the pied baby is it a regular IB pied or....? And then one of the seemingly normal colored babies is a lighter reddish color compared to the other two. Does this mean anything? Also....I am pretty certain they all came from my IB hen and not the BS hen so any chance any of the colors autosexed? I think I read somewhere awhile ago that some color combos when crossed will produce females of one color and males of the other. Here are some pics of yesterdays hatch! Thank you all in advance for any insight.
