Our First Broody and Incubator Hatch: a Diary

[aart]

Odd fence(raised at bottom)...to go along with odd bird

 

[BlueBaby]

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Couple pics from today. The cool weather must have spurred some feather growth. He doesn't have tail feathers. They're just tiny little nubs.

That's good! Maybe now you won't have to make him a sweater?

 

[igorsMistress]

That's good! Maybe now you won't have to make him a sweater?

I bet he would be adorable with a red turtle neck.

 

[BlueBaby]

I bet he would be adorable with a red turtle neck.

But he's a NN, so his neck is supposed to turn red on it's own. Just don't put a Santa suit on him because it might confuse the hen's.

 

[cactusrota]

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Couple pics from today. The cool weather must have spurred some feather growth. He doesn't have tail feathers. They're just tiny little nubs.

Oh my!!! He looks like a little albino Ostrich!!!!

 

[igorsMistress]

@cactusrota It's like his legs are getting paler as he grows. They used to be pale blue.

 

[cactusrota]

Maybe they'll darken back up again as he matures...

 

[BlueBaby]

@cactusrota It's like his legs are getting paler as he grows. They used to be pale blue.

That's strange that his leg's are getting lighter in color. I have a pullet who's leg's look about black, and her mother was a CCLB, and yes she has a crest!

 

[igorsMistress]

Bare butt

 

[BlueBaby]

@igorsMistress That one is sure growing out different than the other one's that I hatched over here. None of these over here have that bare of a butt. That one that you hatched was also the only one that had a completely featherless neck.