November/December "Hatch-a-Long"

[rowdydouillard]

This was my first hatch. Let my broody hen do the work. Can. Any one tell me their breed? 100% hatch. Let her keep two more after I took these.

 

[foxystag]

This was my first hatch. Let my broody hen do the work. Can. Any one tell me their breed? 100% hatch. Let her keep two more after I took these.

Don't know the black one, but the other two are Speckled Sussex!

Congrats on the hatch!

EDIT: Okay, so after just seeing some other breeds that looked just like those two, I don't really know. I know that is how my Speckled Sussex looked like!

Mystery chicks! Share their growth, please?

 

[MrsJenSmith2007]

I have an African Grey, Baby. I saw her when she was 3 days old. I've had her since she was 3 months. SHe is now 8 1/2 years old. She talks, sings, barks, makes chicken and turkey noises, dances and can break out of any cage. I love my Baby. I have read a few books about Alex. There is another book called 'Conversations with Cosmo about another African Grey. Ilove it. Right now Baby is jealous of Max and Max is jealous of everyone else.

How funny! My Clark is an escape artist as well! If he stays in his cage, it's only because he wants to! LOL I am fully aware that he can break out at any minute. We actually rescued him when he was a few years old from a less than desirable living situation. He was initially fearful and pulled feathers, would eat nothing but seed and refused to leave his cage even when I persuaded with treats or attention. Luckily they are so smart that eventually he watched and paid attention to the other pets and after over a year, finally decided that he too would like to be spoiled! He know rules the roost. LOL The only bad habit he still holds onto is the occasional curse word when the dogs bark...haha. He is SO much fun!

 

[Heidisgran]

This was my first hatch. Let my broody hen do the work. Can. Any one tell me their breed? 100% hatch. Let her keep two more after I took these

where did you get the eggs? the black one is a dark sex link...a roo...look them up
I've had chicks that look like both come from my dark sex link but Russian orloffs have the stripes and eye line too....hard to tell if you don't know the parents

 

[Heidisgran]

3 favorelles and 2 leghorn! and orloffs pipping

may have lost one of the unhatched leghorns....I looked at it and something either fluid or air moved under the air cell near the chick...I left it didn't watch long enough to check if the chick was moving but it isn't internally pipped....

 

[Pyxis]

3 favorelles and 2 leghorn! and orloffs pipping

may have lost one of the unhatched leghorns....I looked at it and something either fluid or air moved under the air cell near the chick...I left it didn't watch long enough to check if the chick was moving but it isn't internally pipped....

e Love those faverolles! Mine are doing awesome. Looks like I hatched, in the first batch, three roos and four pullets, not bad. We'll see how I do with the next batch - I might even have extra hens to sell!

 

[familypendragon]

I have my prize Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucana spectaular bue eggs going into lockdown tomorrow and my house is bastion of bird death right now. The mystery illness now has now claimed a total of 15 birds of all different ages with all different symptoms. I have 4 chicks, 1 cockerel, 1 rooster and a hen in the fridge to ship out for necropsy on Monday. This is so unfair I FINALLY have 1 shipment of eggs that are doing great and they are going to hatch out in the middle of the freaking plague!!! I can't win If you want details I have a thread of all the weirdness here https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...g-in-my-hands-right-now-help/60#post_12214984 I am just distraught This is so cruel... my poor babies

 

[familypendragon]

And amazingly in the middle of all this sickness I got my very first Kraienkoppe egg this morning from Cleopatra. I think she was trying to make me feel better - thanks Cleo.

 

[mollychick2013]

I woke up to chaos this morning....I thought what are those chicks doing....there are 4 chicks in the brooder that are 1 2 and 3 weeks old. I went to check and IT WASN'T THEM IT WAS THE INCUBATOR! so far 2 White Leghorns and 1 Favorelle have hatched and a bunch of pips!!!

That's exciting! What a great chaos to wake up to!! Congrats!

 

[SoManyHats]

Ok, I said you'd get sick of me... I wasn't going to candle again until Monday, but I was out and found a 200 lumen flashlight, so I had to get it...and then I had to try it out to see if it was better. I still can't see veining. Here's a couple pictures - they pretty much all look similar.

This last one, you can barely make out a small dark spot within the mass. This moves under the shell, it's not on it. But I didn't notice any voluntary movement.

It's totally a lack of veining that's got me worried. I'm ready to give up (but won't before Sunday).

As a reminder, this is day 9.