Ready Set Hatch! Set 3/17 Hatch 4/7 - ready now! Hatch-Along

[Wrightsx4]

Ben - those are so pretty! I have never seen that color before. Pic #3 you must have clucked right

 

[Bens-Hens]

In the brooder now we have:

3 A/lorp
2 BV
2 SPW
5 Lavender Araucana

Outside in a mini coop we have (5 weeks 3 days);

3 L/S (1 m, 2 f)
2 RIR (1 m, 1 f)
1 A/Lorp

Not sure which exactly you wanted so you got them all hahahaha

OMG.....We have 18 chickens! Chicken math don't fail me now!

 

[Bens-Hens]

Ben - those are so pretty! I have never seen that color before. Pic #3 you must have clucked right

Hahahaha, right on sister!

Look forward to getting some when they are a bit stronger, then I can add 'lure of chick feed' to my phone camera repetiour!

 

[Dylon]

I guess I will give them a few days in the brooder in the barn. They are honestly safer in the cage outside than in the barn. There are cats in and out of that barn, the dogs sleep there at night, and it gets really hot in there during the day and the air doesn't circulate. I figured if they can be shipped across the country, then they would be ok

 

[bamachicks8]

Looks almost like my booder coloration wise except.I have welsummers and marans.plus the "dyed chicks" and two Cochin bantams currently housing 16 chicks outside we havea grown leghorn a grown slw 3 rsl a light Brahma two white? an ee a Dominique that's 26 chicks and chickens total that darn chicken math.

 

[Wrightsx4]

Yeah - chicken math here-
8+7+1+1-1+20...and my DD is stalking the farm store for a silkie if they get any in...
my husband planned to build a second mini-coop for me for my birthday. One to house a breeder group or use as a bachelor pad when the roosters need separation, and to use as a grow out coop. Oh wait - we hatched more chicks than we have in the big coop! It needs to house them until they're 12-14 weeks old so my big chickens don't try to kill them - last time they seriously would attack the younger ones even though they were almost the same size, if they got too close. The young ones lived in a penned area under the nest boxes inside the coop and had a divider in the outside run. Twenty 12wk old chickens will not fit in that area this time. So... we need to build a not-so-mini second coop within about 4 weeks AND do a remodel of the big coop in the next 10 wks. I am so lucky to have a handyman husband to help with my projects!
Last incubation we set a dozen, 1 hatched. This time we set 25, should've hatch 2 or 3 right? LOL. 20.

 

[Dylon]

Guys I lost a chick to a stupid mistake.... Before lockdown, i couldn't get the humidity up enough, so I set a bowl of very shallow water in the incubator. Today, one went in the bowl and drown... I thought if one got in, it could jump out... It couldn't

 

[hokankai]

Cute chicks Ben! And congrats to everyone else

Here are the rest of the babies in the brooder babies.

The Orpingtons again because I didn't want to try and photograph them again



The Dark Cornish babies




I call this one "The Peanut"






The Jersey Giants


Splash JGs




This is the baby I assisted! He's still a little weaker, probably from having less blood, but he's doing great for his first day in the brooder






The Peanut next to a Jersey Giant


And next to an Orpington!


Here's the one of the Orpington's the breeder lovingly calls "Walrus Chicks"

 

[Wrightsx4]

Dylon - Oh I'm so sorry! That is so sad. I know that you're talking about in the incubator - the same can happen it the brooder the first week or so - even in a chick waterer. You may know this trick already, if you fill the bowl or waterer tray with marbles or small rocks they'll drink around them but won't drown. Again, so sorry for your loss. We all make mistakes even though we try our best.

 

[Wrightsx4]

Hokankai "cluck cluck" too funny. Now when I see your perfectly posed chickies I imagine you clucking at them
They are such Cuties!