November 22: "Hatch Finished" Now with PIC'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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well i was judging the chick by the size of it's comb. I have a good amount of experience with milies and when the comb lays over on it's head when it's hatched.....i can normally tell the boys from the girls. Also... i believe pullet's in general have small "many spikes" combs, where as roo's have the predominant 5 to 7 or so main spikes making up their comb. I have standard's and banty's and have about 6 to 7 different breeds total and all my pullet's have the same "many spikes" characteristics...so i guess that's what im basing my decision on it's gender from.
Well...all together 11 went in lockdown and i have 9 out. One died after pip and the other is still in the bator all alone with no pip. I got a feeling it's dead, but i at least want to give the little one another day just to be sure. 24 day's is my cut off...after that im 100% sure that they have died in the shell. I will get some pictures up here soon of my new babies!
well i was judging the chick by the size of it's comb. I have a good amount of experience with milies and when the comb lays over on it's head when it's hatched.....i can normally tell the boys from the girls. Also... i believe pullet's in general have small "many spikes" combs, where as roo's have the predominant 5 to 7 or so main spikes making up their comb. I have standard's and banty's and have about 6 to 7 different breeds total and all my pullet's have the same "many spikes" characteristics...so i guess that's what im basing my decision on it's gender from.
Well...all together 11 went in lockdown and i have 9 out. One died after pip and the other is still in the bator all alone with no pip. I got a feeling it's dead, but i at least want to give the little one another day just to be sure. 24 day's is my cut off...after that im 100% sure that they have died in the shell. I will get some pictures up here soon of my new babies!
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Baby Drier Lint!
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ha! that's awesome! i will be gettin some pics here shortly...just gotta find my camera first lol
ha! that's awesome! i will be gettin some pics here shortly...just gotta find my camera first lol
I'm also getting ducklings in the Thanksgiving Day Hatch thread.
Monday evening came home from work to 3 babies and 6 eggs (1 egg broke about a week and a half in). Yesterday morning there were 7 babies and last night when I got home, there were 8 babies! I'll leave the last egg until tonight when I get home. I figure with the cold temps, maybe it's just taking a little longer. From what I can tell without disturbing Millicent too badly, there are 7 black chicks with yellow markings and 1 chipmunk which I'm going to assume is an EE. (Two of the eggs were green).
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congrat's on your babies! still workin on my pics lol
congrat's on your babies! still workin on my pics lol
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11 went to lockdown...and 9 came out...VERY happy with my hatch....especially since i only have a LG forced air bator...and i do not have a hatcher...just my one LG.
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pics r up
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