October Hatch-a-long 2022🎃🐣🍁

[LadiesAndJane]

What do yall think? DIS?

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• Gammas Bearded Babies
• Oct 21, 2022

Have to agree, this one appears to be DIS.

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

All right thanks guys...just wanted lil more consensus before tossing...poor lil baby!
The 4 others are really healthy and too stinkin sweet!!! I believe I can tell the lavender/black one cuz of the dark place o it's beak...but they are all so luvable!!!

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Thank you @kurby22 and @Gammas Bearded Babies.

Sorry about your blind girl.
How old was she? What kind of accommodations did you have to make for her?

I still have the one porcelain, tiny little thing. Pretty sure it is female. The breeder is sending more eggs, so I have not given up yet.

In the mean time it is DAY 18 for the “Layla” eggs. All 13 that were set have gone to lock down.

How many of your Cochins hatched finally @Gammas Bearded Babies? I seem to have lost track. Looks like you got at least two mottled. Did the little lavender end up being black? I need to see more pics!

Can’t wait to see the d’Anvers @kurby22. I did not even know they came in a white variety!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

Thank you @kurby22 and @Gammas Bearded Babies.

Sorry about your blind girl.
How old was she? What kind of accommodations did you have to make for her?

I still have the one porcelain, tiny little thing. Pretty sure it is female. The breeder is sending more eggs, so I have not given up yet.

In the mean time it is DAY 18 for the “Layla” eggs. All 13 that were set have gone to lock down.

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How many of your Cochins hatched finally @Gammas Bearded Babies? I seem to have lost track. Looks like you got at least two mottled. Did the little lavender end up being black? I need to see more pics!

Can’t wait to see the d’Anvers @kurby22. I did not even know they came in a white variety!

Oh she's sending u more porcelain eggs! That's awesome!
And all of Layla's went to lockdown! Wow!!!
I ended up with 4 out of 5 in lockdown hatching. They all "look" mottled to me...but idk.
Here's a video clip of em this morning.
I'll try to get good pics tonight when grandson and the chicks are all sleepy

Hatch⁶2022 Cochins.mp4

• Gammas Bearded Babies
• Oct 21, 2022

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Oh she's sending u more porcelain eggs! That's awesome!
And all of Layla's went to lockdown! Wow!!!
I ended up with 4 out of 5 in lockdown hatching. They all "look" mottled to me...but idk.
Here's a video clip of em this morning.
I'll try to get good pics tonight when grandson and the chicks are all sleepy

Hatch⁶2022 Cochins.mp4

• Gammas Bearded Babies
• Oct 21, 2022

I think that you’re right, they all look mottled, the two with the white heads for sure. They’re all so cute, little chubby round fluff balls!

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

I think that you’re right, they all look mottled. They’re all so cute, little chubby round fluff balls!

Which is why I'm soooo confused!
Only ONE of these are mottled according to breeder?! Idk

Here's what she said....
BFC Black/Chocolate can be smooth or frizzle
BBM Blue/Black mottle can be smooth or frizzle
LB Lavender/Black can be smooth or frizzle

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Which is why I'm soooo confused!
None of these are mottled according to breeder?! Idk

Guess you’ll know better when they feather in.
Two of these eggs I got from a reputable breeder were mismarked. So it happens! I just hatched 4 little Cochin crosses that I was sure were Silkies! Thankfully I didn’t sell any of these eggs to anybody as Silkie hatching eggs!
I now only will only set eggs that are at least 40 grams.

 

[kurby22]

Thank you @kurby22 and @Gammas Bearded Babies.

Sorry about your blind girl.
How old was she? What kind of accommodations did you have to make for her?

I still have the one porcelain, tiny little thing. Pretty sure it is female. The breeder is sending more eggs, so I have not given up yet.

In the mean time it is DAY 18 for the “Layla” eggs. All 13 that were set have gone to lock down.

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How many of your Cochins hatched finally @Gammas Bearded Babies? I seem to have lost track. Looks like you got at least two mottled. Did the little lavender end up being black? I need to see more pics!

Can’t wait to see the d’Anvers @kurby22. I did not even know they came in a white variety!

Thanks, Honey was a really special girl and I will miss her so much She was about a year and a half. I found she did much better cooping herself with a near the ground coop and uncomplicated ramp. I also placed her in the treat bin each day so she did not have to hunt and peck for treats. This was her favorite part of each day. The vet said they are always really thin birds because finding food is tougher and they just give up more often than other chickens that see fine. I also noticed that she did better finding her food and water when the containers were very contrasting colors--all one color or blue or silvery colored feeders she struggled to locate, but my red and white waterers and feeds were much easier. If I had to move food or water, I would show her where it was several times and then she was good. The hardest part was the other chickens patience with her. She unknowingly got in the way and would get pecked and it made her sad. She would lay her head on my shoulder when I held her and coo...I think she would have loved being a house chicken. She was having a really significantly bad hard molt and I think her body just couldn't recover I clearly was attached haha, sorry that was more than you needed in you HAL thread!

I'm glad to hear that you are getting some more of the porcelain eggs! Can't wait to see the Layla eggs hatch!

I know, I found the d'Anver color in the ABA and reached out to the BBDA Club and found a lady who is working on them! So happy! I just love my black and self-blue d'Anvers. They are such sweet little birds. My future project is going to be working on mottled d'Anvers using my bantam EEs and my black d'Anvers.

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Thanks, Honey was a really special girl and I will miss her so much She was about a year and a half. I found she did much better cooping herself with a near the ground coop and uncomplicated ramp. I also placed her in the treat bin each day so she did not have to hunt and peck for treats. This was her favorite part of each day. The vet said they are always really thin birds because finding food is tougher and they just give up more often than other chickens that see fine. I also noticed that she did better finding her food and water when the containers were very contrasting colors--all one color or blue or silvery colored feeders she struggled to locate, but my red and white waterers and feeds were much easier. If I had to move food or water, I would show her where it was several times and then she was good. The hardest part was the other chickens patience with her. She unknowingly got in the way and would get pecked and it made her sad. She would lay her head on my shoulder when I held her and coo...I think she would have loved being a house chicken. She was having a really significantly bad hard molt and I think her body just couldn't recover I clearly was attached haha, sorry that was more than you needed in you HAL thread!

I'm glad to hear that you are getting some more of the porcelain eggs! Can't wait to see the Layla eggs hatch!

I know, I found the d'Anver color in the ABA and reached out to the BBDA Club and found a lady who is working on them! So happy! I just love my black and self-blue d'Anvers. They are such sweet little birds. My future project is going to be working on mottled d'Anvers using my bantam EEs and my black d'Anvers.

Thank you for sharing your experiences with Honey! And thank you so much for all the info about how you cared for her.
I’ll see what I can do for this one, I just have such limited space. Maybe I can find a good pet home for her where she’ll get all kinds of love and attention.
I love hearing all the emotional parts, so please don’t apologize for that! I just lost my dear chicken Frankie, yesterday.
She was my most friendly and most pet like of all my chickens. So I totally get it! They really aren’t just chickens, are they?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

OK here are my October babies that I am keeping at least for now!

Dominant white, Odette, hatched 10/2

Visually impaired, unnamed chick, black, hatched 10/9

Rest are the 7 hatched from shipped eggs hatched 10/14:

The Buffs, larger one has boy energy already. These guys are so fluffy!

The recessive Whites:

The Black and the “Crele”, honestly this one just looks like black with leakage, I guess I’ll find out eventually.

The Porcelain

Not planning to keep any from Layla‘s hatch but then again, you never know…