Pipd's Peeps!

[NagemTX]

So not sure what Spitzhauben are based on but when crossed on my Ameraucana I get very dark legs at hatch. The normal Ameraucana that aren't black always turn slate.

Lol, I was doing the dubble g in legs this morning too.

Anyway pictures of those two cool down colored chicks. They both have fuzzy legs down to the foot but not on any of the toes.

This might end up blue silver partial laced. I think it's out of the silver laced but might be out of the blue cochin hen.

I think gold blue on this one and partial laced. Pretty sure it's out of the gold laced cochin hen.

 

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So not sure what Spitzhauben are based on but when crossed on my Ameraucana I get very dark legs at hatch. The normal Ameraucana that aren't black always turn slate.

Spitz are ER based I believe, although I guess eb can sneak in sometimes with spangled patterns and the transverse-pencilled patterns like on Campines. ER gives the males in these colors proper tail patterning, while eb if I remember right does better with the females' pattern or something like that? Don't quote me on that part!

Lol, I was doing the dubble g in legs this morning too.

A side-effect of the holiday, I guess

Anyway pictures of those two cool down colored chicks. They both have fuzzy legs down to the foot but not on any of the toes.

This might end up blue silver partial laced. I think it's out of the silver laced but might be out of the blue cochin hen.
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I think gold blue on this one and partial laced. Pretty sure it's out of the gold laced cochin hen.
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They are pretty! I'd agree on your assessments of their possible parents!

 

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I just leg-banded and moved little Splash baby to the brooder Her navel seems to have dried up and scabbed over, and she's just as energetic as everyone else... between naps, of course.

No further progress on the last three eggs.

 

[2ndTink]

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

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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

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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!

Judy booty baby knows its special and is standing extra tall

Hehe, yay, another genetics mystery! Who made the dark feet

Bummer on the Judy booty quitter but I hope #2 pops out soon!

 

[fluffycrow]

Oh my gosh, how cute ! The Judy Booty baby looks very very active, that's always nice to see! Those fluffy feet are killing me, they're concealing the third toe, making them look like tiny fluffy emus

 

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Judy booty baby knows its special and is standing extra tall

Hehe, yay, another genetics mystery! Who made the dark feet

Bummer on the Judy booty quitter but I hope #2 pops out soon!

Judy booty #2 is zipping now Fashionably late, too, as everyone else has hatched already.

Oh my gosh, how cute ! The Judy Booty baby looks very very active, that's always nice to see! Those fluffy feet are killing me, they're concealing the third toe, making them look like tiny fluffy emus

Just wait until they're fluffed out all the way, they look like they're wearing those fluffy footsie pajamas! They are the absolute cutest little bitties... though I might be just a tad biased

 

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And, that's a wrap

 

[fluffycrow]

They are the absolute cutest little bitties... though I might be just a tad biased

I'd say that's a very unbiased opinion

 

[fluffycrow]

And, that's a wrap

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Woooooo Judy Booty

 

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Next two banded and moved to the brooder.

Judy booty 2 is still fluffing up a bit, so I haven't moved her out of the incubator just yet. I did do some waterer training in the brooder, though, and Judy booty 1 was the first to figure out the waterer on her own!