OCTOBER HATCH-A-LONG!!! 2015

[GitaBooks]

oh how cool! I quick googled their breed after reading your post and saw that it is a landrace which has no standardized colors! And I can see why! There are so many different types of phenotype expressed with this breed! LOVE land races Good luck! ill keep my feathers crossed

I love icelandics! So healthy and natural and diverse! I love it when animals get a chance to adapt into something so unique.

Did you know there is a pig breed that lived on an island that could help cure diabetes? They were going to all be killed and some were killed and are now being bred and are worth thousands! Land races are awesome!

Yes very cautiously remove that egg before it explodes. I'm sorry but it has quit and keeping it could risk the rest of your hatch.

x2

 

[Gloryjasmine]

Okay so I just made two posts on the Illinois thread about the new chicks I have that were hatched on September 28th(a day before and after but I thought it would be easier to pick one day) from Faraday40 complete with pictures but idk how to, or if I even can copy and post it here if anyone knows how please let me know and/or feel free to do it yourself. Thanks its just a ton to type out all over again. Time for lunch ttyl happy hatching.

One time...I needed to do the same thing. Someone told me how to do it. But I was unable to figure out how on my iPad. I had to re type everything.

I hope someone can help you soon. Btw... I'll get to you in our pm soon doll!

 

[ChickaLong]

Okay so I just made two posts on the Illinois thread about the new chicks I have that were hatched on September 28th(a day before and after but I thought it would be easier to pick one day) from Faraday40 complete with pictures but idk how to, or if I even can copy and post it here if anyone knows how please let me know and/or feel free to do it yourself. Thanks its just a ton to type out all over again. Time for lunch ttyl happy hatching.

I will try to copy and paste

Okay so after morning chores I tried to get some pics of the chicks and wow black chicks are hard to photograph, I suppose it makes sense just like black cats and dogs. Your daughter's favorite is especially hard because she doesn't have any white marks to differentiate that black blob that shows in the pictures lol. Anyway these are some of the best ones I got:
the first two are your daughters favorite



The next three are the white chick. In the first picture you can see a small black speck of down above her left eye as well as a half black tail feather coming in. In the second picture you can see the black feather that has come in on her back/shoulder region. She(hopefully) also has a few other black specks in her down though quite small they seem to be growing every few days.




The next photos are of the first suspected little roo(EE)



The next chick is my mother's favorite, one of the orps(also hopefully a girl)



The next photo is a picture of another little orp I suspect may also be a little roo


The next pic is the last orp that I think may be a pullet. Followed by a couple group shots

 

[luvmigirls]

I always do the water test before I throw the last egg away if I'm not sure. You get a very hot glass of water. Put the unzipped egg in it. It will bobble regardless but if it wiggles it's still viable.

okay so i didnt get home till Now, and I didnt have time earlier. But omg omg. I had no expectation. (i even got my son undressed and showered with the egg in my hand. hah!) then i put it in a cup of heated water from the tap and the egg started to PEEP! I literally jumped. I had gotten close because it was floating at the top and i was looking for wobbling. lol. So now i know there is a chickie in there. but wow. okay. so today is day 21 for the egg. there is No pip. The last 2 eggs to hatch were very very dry. had to help the one chick rip the dried out membrane using distilled water and a qtip to moisten it. My biggest worry is that chick in there is getting shrink wrapped. Ive been staggered hatching since Oct3rd too! ha. im so tired. i was half hoping this egg was a quitter. lol.

 

[chickendreams24]

@ChickaLong
Awesome thanks could you post the second half my stupid phone sent it and I decided to make the others a second half. Thanks so much. I tried to copy and past it but it didn't bring the pictures for some reason.

Hope everyone enjoys the pics of my little fluffy butts I'm in lub <3

For those who don't know Daddy to all the chicks is a black/lavender split roo that is 50% English
The white one's Mommy is from an all white mixed hen they have that lays pinkish eggs and is their best layer.
The two I have written as EE are probably the orp with a ccl(hence the suspect little roo BC of his sexlinked head spot- signalling barring) although there is a small chance that Mommy could be an Ameracauna/EE.
The pure orps are from two bloodlines. Their Mommy is a black orp that is also half English.
Idk if this means they could possibly have gotten the lavender gene from Daddy that they could carry on to future offspring or not. If anyone knows please tell me, you can burst my bubble. Lol I haven't completely figured out how their inheritance works yet. Will their father have only passed on the black gene?
Also their previous owner was questioning if the white chick was sexlinked as a cockeral too since its mother was white. I really love the white chick and I want it to be a pullet BC at most we can keep another two roos and I think there are two in there.
I love them all and can't wait to find out how they'll all mature.

 

[junebuggena]

@ChickaLong
Awesome thanks could you post the second half my stupid phone sent it and I decided to make the others a second half. Thanks so much.

I tried to copy and past it but it didn't bring the pictures for some reason.

Hope everyone enjoys the pics of my little fluffy butts

I'm in lub <3

For those who don't know Daddy to all the chicks is a black/lavender split roo that is 50% English
The white one's Mommy is from an all white mixed hen they have that lays pinkish eggs and is their best layer.
The two I have written as EE are probably the orp with a ccl(hence the suspect little roo BC of his sexlinked head spot- signalling barring) although there is a small chance that Mommy could be an Ameracauna/EE.
The pure orps are from two bloodlines. Their Mommy is a black orp that is also half English.
Idk if this means they could possibly have gotten the lavender gene from Daddy that they could carry on to future offspring or not. If anyone knows please tell me, you can burst my bubble. Lol I haven't completely figured out how their inheritance works yet. Will their father have only passed on the black gene?
Also their previous owner was questioning if the white chick was sexlinked as a cockeral too since its mother was white. I really love the white chick and I want it to be a pullet BC at most we can keep another two roos and I think there are two in there.
I love them all and can't wait to find out how they'll all mature.

Lavender isn't a 'color,' it's a modifier for black. It's a recessive blue dilute gene. It requires two copies of the gene to express. Since the rooster is Lavender, than he has two copies of the gene, and he will pass one copy to each of his chicks. You can breed his daughters back to him and have about a 50-50 chance of producing Lavender chicks.

 

[luvmigirls]

Wow. She was totally shrink wrapped and at the wrong End!
before and after i lathered her wuth gentle qtip moistness. She is back in the incbator half shelled. I don't think she is ready yet to hatch for some vessels had blood. I'm not about to force her out. I think I gave her a good start. She drank from the qtip too. Just wow.

I am hoping I didn't do more harm than good. I love these little guys. I woukd have made tge hole smaller but I couldn't find her beak at the air sack end.

 

[MamaMarans]

I'm in also! Coturnix quail and two lonely, should be, blue copper Marans in the inky and pipping now. Then 8 Black Copper Marans and 50 Bobwhites due to hatch in two weeks. All first time in my home made incubator! Super excited but nervous as well!

 

[ChickaLong]

I will try to copy and paste

Okay so after morning chores I tried to get some pics of the chicks and wow black chicks are hard to photograph, I suppose it makes sense just like black cats and dogs. Your daughter's favorite is especially hard because she doesn't have any white marks to differentiate that black blob that shows in the pictures lol. Anyway these are some of the best ones I got:
the first two are your daughters favorite



The next three are the white chick. In the first picture you can see a small black speck of down above her left eye as well as a half black tail feather coming in. In the second picture you can see the black feather that has come in on her back/shoulder region. She(hopefully) also has a few other black specks in her down though quite small they seem to be growing every few days.




The next photos are of the first suspected little roo(EE)



The next chick is my mother's favorite, one of the orps(also hopefully a girl)



The next photo is a picture of another little orp I suspect may also be a little roo


The next pic is the last orp that I think may be a pullet. Followed by a couple group shots

Oops... Post the next pics now.

 

[ChickaLong]

@ChickaLong
Awesome thanks could you post the second half my stupid phone sent it and I decided to make the others a second half. Thanks so much.

I tried to copy and past it but it didn't bring the pictures for some reason.

Hope everyone enjoys the pics of my little fluffy butts

I'm in lub <3

For those who don't know Daddy to all the chicks is a black/lavender split roo that is 50% English
The white one's Mommy is from an all white mixed hen they have that lays pinkish eggs and is their best layer.
The two I have written as EE are probably the orp with a ccl(hence the suspect little roo BC of his sexlinked head spot- signalling barring) although there is a small chance that Mommy could be an Ameracauna/EE.
The pure orps are from two bloodlines. Their Mommy is a black orp that is also half English.
Idk if this means they could possibly have gotten the lavender gene from Daddy that they could carry on to future offspring or not. If anyone knows please tell me, you can burst my bubble. Lol I haven't completely figured out how their inheritance works yet. Will their father have only passed on the black gene?
Also their previous owner was questioning if the white chick was sexlinked as a cockeral too since its mother was white. I really love the white chick and I want it to be a pullet BC at most we can keep another two roos and I think there are two in there.
I love them all and can't wait to find out how they'll all mature.

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