Pipd's Peeps!

[2ndTink]

Also can't wait to see how these two turn out!

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Your brooder looks great and agreed, we need pics as they grow up!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Also can't wait to see how these two turn out!

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Ooh, pretty babies! What are they?

 

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I pulled the first three babies, leg banded them, and put them in the brooder this morning. Precious little squirts

These guys are the eggs from the cull girls that I set just in case there wasn't much development. So I put pink bands on them as I don't use pink for any of my coops.

And we have two more hatched, but too fresh to move out to the brooder yet, including our first Judy booty

I can see one more external pip, and there are four more eggs beyond that, so we're about at the half way point.

 

[2ndTink]

Little Easter chicks and that Judy booty! It's a superstar already, I just know it!


Hehe, what if one of you three chicks you hatched from your culls turns into the most perfect silkied cochin!?! Ok, not super likely but that would be cool anyway

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Haha, yeah, unlikely but not necessarily impossible! I most likely will sell those babies before we know anyway, though it pains me to let go of such precious little squirts

 

[NagemTX]

Ooh, pretty babies! What are they?

I think the silver fluff one is ee x cochin it has fluff down the leg. Haven't looked at the other one closely yet will do that to day.

I'll be getting individual pictures of them all today.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

That one will be a pretty bird for sure! Looking forward to the pictures!

 

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I pulled the next two babies out and banded them. The baby on the right standing up taller is our little Judy booty

Interestingly, the non-Judy-booty has slate legs. I keep pencils in both of my breeder coops so that I can mark eggs as I collect them from those coops, so I can't think of any way I could have mixed up an egg from the general flock... But that has me second-guessing a bit anyway

We had a little Splash baby hatch just now, too, one of the keeper eggs but the one I'm pretty sure is not a Judy booty, and little one has a lot of blood around its navel. It's peeping and scooting around like normal, and I don't see anything actually hanging out of the area, just blood, so hopefully baby will heal up and do fine

While moving the Judy booty baby to the brooder, I also took a glance at the last two Judy booty eggs in that incubator and, sadly, one appears to have quit right here at the end. I left it in just to be safe, but I see no movement, no draw down, and the veins have gone patchy. The other is internally pipped and should go external before too much longer, I hope. And the last two cull eggs in the other incubator are externally pipped. Getting down to the wire!

 

[NagemTX]

Splash does tend to have lighter legs from everything I've read. All my birds but the bantam cochins and the silver laced English Orpingtons have slate legs and they start out light and end up slate.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

My Blues tend to have pale legs like the Judy-booty baby pictured, though. It looks like the ones I'd been calling birchen-based but found out recently that they're more likely split birchen and partridge, ER/eb, had pretty dark slate legs at hatch, though. Birchen ER plus the melanizers that block out the hackle patterning in adulthood lets that slate color come through on the legs, while partridge eb helps with lightening the legs so they end up not being proper slate when grown, more of a brownish yellow color. At least that's my understanding and has been my experience with the ones with that appearance.

The ones from last year were a much darker, almost slatey-black color in their chick down, though. That's probably why I didn't notice the slate legs with them as much. I might just have to hold onto this little one and see how it turns out...


As a side note, holy moly, I don't know what's wrong with my brain but I kept wanting to put two g's in the word legs in this post!! I guess I have eggs on the brain right now!